Post-cholecystectomy or gallbladder removal surgery

This is what my stomach looks like at the end of the day. It’s normally pretty flat considering I’ve had 3 kids so it’s not model perfect flat but it definitely doesn’t always make me look pregnant

Hi I’m a 44yr old white female who had my gallbladder removed January 20,2023 laparoscopic. I had a Strawberry gallbladder with 2 comet tails. I woke up in recovery in severe pain. My husband said he could hear me screaming coming down the hall back to my post op room. I was discharged that same day. Due to being heavily sedated I don’t remember anything but I said I screamed and cried in pain all night. He took me to the emergency room on January 21,2023. They administered heavy narcotics, and done a CT with contrast. They said CT didn’t show anything but I was screaming in pain with Dilaudid via Iv and Percocet via mouth. They admitted me and was never able to get my pain under control. I was unable to have a bowel movement even with an enema. I was discharged home taking 3 stool softeners a day. I still can’t have a bowel movement, I’m extremely swollen and in excruciating pain from between my ribs in a circle around my belly back to my center chest. No one can tell me what’s wrong as far as why I can’t go to the bathroom and why I’m having so much pain. I regret having the surgery with all my might. Please help !!

How long ago was your gallbladder removed?

Hi There Hines etal
I had my GB out in Dec 2022 and I also woke up in sever pain, and crying, also sent home, Pain did not subside, gnawing burning pain, could not eat, dizzy, lost weight, bowels sluggish, always constipated.
Two Ed visits, surgeon visit ,gastroenterologist visit, pcp visit , HiDA scan, upper GI all negative, started on PPI and Sucralfate, stomach with gnawing pain.
I mentioned post cholecystectomy syndrome to the doctors snd they looked at me like I am a Martian with three heads… never heard if it? Lab work normal too.
Anyway, now 9 weeks out able to eat more foods, burning stomach and Epigastric pain better but not gone, stopped loosing weight, but digestion feels weird, I can feel every of stomach, now uncomfortable but not pain, and seem to feel intestinal movement. Definitely not normal, but better.
I eat yogurt daily, oatmeal, and take probiotics for gut microbes. No caffeine. No citrus.
Hope you begin to feel better soon. Are you eating?

I am so sorry to hear about all your suffering.
I had a botched surgery, perforation of the duodenum from ERCP with stent.
Your pain symptoms, ( very sorry to say, sound like a perforation, or free air in the intestine.) Please go back to the ER immediately, please request to be seen by a different gastro DR and different surgeon. My chest pains mimic ed a heart attack.
God Bless You.
Praying someone gets to the bottom of this.

Hi I’m a 44yr old white female who had my gallbladder removed January 20,2023 laparoscopic. I had a Strawberry gallbladder with 2 comet tails. I woke up in recovery in severe pain. My husband said he could hear me screaming coming down the hall back to my post op room. I was discharged that same day. Due to being heavily sedated I don’t remember anything but I said I screamed and cried in pain all night. He took me to the emergency room on January 21,2023. They administered heavy narcotics, and done a CT with contrast. They said CT didn’t show anything but I was screaming in pain with Dilaudid via Iv and Percocet via mouth. They admitted me and was never able to get my pain under control. I was unable to have a bowel movement even with an enema. I was discharged home taking 3 stool softeners a day. I still can’t have a bowel movement, I’m extremely swollen and in excruciating pain from between my ribs in a circle around my belly back to my center chest. No one can tell me what’s wrong as far as why I can’t go to the bathroom and why I’m having so much pain. I regret having the surgery with all my might. Please help !!

This post goes out to Ms Hines.
How are you?
Did you return to the ER. Did you receive resolvement of your pain? After the perforation I suffered with recurring bouts of pancreatitis for many years. Please take care of yourself.
Sending prayers.
💗🙏

How long ago was your gallbladder removed?

This post goes out to Ms Hines.
How are you?
Did you return to the ER. Did you receive resolvement of your pain? After the perforation I suffered with recurring bouts of pancreatitis for many years. Please take care of yourself.
Sending prayers.
💗🙏

January 20,2023