I’m new to the group. I’m almost 48 y/o. I felt more tired than normal right before Christmas and just didn’t feel well in general. I work with kids and thought it was all the excitement and hype with Christmas break coming up. On Christmas Day, I was still tired and started feeling very nauseous, tired, and sick. I thought it was a virus. Fast forward to the week of New Years. I had an ultrasound of gall bladder which showed no stones and everything looked good. I saw primary care physician and gave my symptoms which by this time included a “bubble”’under my right rib area, loss of appetite on top of the others. She ordered a HIDA scan to test gall bladder functioning. It showed that it was functioning at 10% or less and needed to be removed. I had surgery on 1-15-19. For the first week, I felt better, just a little tired. After one week and 2 days, everything went back as it was before. Nauseous, extremely tired, no appetite, shaky sometimes, can’t stand food odors cooking, etc. I’ve been to ER twice due to dehydration. I did get meds to help with nausea, however I’m constantly fatigued and anything I do requires rest or a nap afterwards. I have only worked 2 half days at school since school went back after Christmas. I’m scared I’m going to lose my job. I have lost 22 pounds to date since Christmas also. My story looks like that of some of you all recently. Please let me know if hat may have helped you if you have had better results since you posted. I have seen my primary care physician, re-visited surgeon (who says it’s just taking me longer to recover), a gastroenterologist (who didntheir own labs, an endoscopy, and a CT scan—-labs show slightly elevated liver enzymes, but negative for rare liver disorders), Endoscopy was negative for cancer and celiac and other disorders and CT scan was clear of abscesses and masses and said the liver, spleen, and pancreas all looked fine on scan). What else can be checked ? Please help. Micki.

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