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Post-cholecystectomy or gallbladder removal surgery
Digestive Health | Last Active: Jul 21 1:26pm | Replies (561)Comment receiving replies
Hi,
I had my gallbladder removed through laparoscopic surgery just a couple of weeks ago. All the symptoms are gone, yeah! However, I have pain to the touch in the skin, not the incisions, around where the gallbladder was. I asked my doctor during my 2 week follow up and he was not concerned. He said to come back in a month if the pain persists. Has some experienced this? I wonder if I have some nerves inflamed.
Thanks
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Thanks. I would like to hear from other people to see if someone has experienced something similar as I have been doing research over the internet and I have not found any reference to this type of sensitivity. My skin is not red or anything like that, it is just very sensitive to the touch around the place where I think the gallbladder was located. That part is still swollen, but the incisions look very good.
I had my gallbladder removed a year ago and where the incisions were made are two swollen areas..if I’m standing for two long or make too much movement I have abdominal pain and my body swells
@blueve97 - I had laparoscopic surgery years ago- one of the first in my area. I can still see the scars- they were tender for a long time. Good thing that your work up was normal. There is something called incisional hernia- hernias developing at the site of incision - even long after the surgery. I don’t know if that’s possible with lap surgery. On the other hand, it creates a weakened area in the abdominal wall. This does not necessarily show on ct and mri. However, being upright would put pressure on the abdominal wall. Just a theory of mine.
My husband got a colonoscopy about 8 months ago and they diagnosed him with mild crones. They put him on medication for it, the inflammation went down however it did not take care of the symptoms that he was having: abdominal pain, back pain, weight loss, cloudy urine and stool, shakes, sweating after eating, long/loud burps, nausea and the whites of his eyes were turning off white/creamy color. My husband decided that he wanted to get his gallbladder checked . The HIDA scan showed that when the gallbladder was stabilized, only 5% of it was working..when he walked around, 14% of it was working. His gallbladder was not functioning and all of the symptoms he was experiencing led to a diseased gallbladder. He had it removed 6 days ago and started feeling really good. However today (6th day) he started feeling some of his old symptoms (nausea, sweating after eating and back pain) again. We are devastated that he’s starting to feel bad again. God led me to this Mayo platform. Has anyone gone through this or can anyone point us in our next direction?
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Hi @genocurt - I think you are correct in that the nerves may be inflamed from the procedure of removing the gallbladder. It should get less and less with time. Isn’t it nice not to have those symptoms?!