Do you still have your gallbladder?

Posted by pmrsuzie @pmrsuzie, 3 hours ago

I had my gallbladder removed when I was 24. I'm 77. Way back then it was a big deal, my incision is 7 inches and I had hundreds of gallstones. They did a cholangiogram during surgery to detect any stones in bile ducts, also removed my appendix. Was really sick. Was readmitted to the hospital two weeks later with stabbing pains when I breathed. They decided I had pleurisy.
Since then, I have worried about taking medicines that could affect liver function or are metabolized thru the liver. I know too much Tylenol elevates my liver enzymes. I declined nethotrexate. Not sure what biologics would do. The profile back then for gallbladder problems was 'female, fat , and forty', I weighed 105 pounds. Imaging techs laughed when I showed up for the test, think it was a floroscope.
Diet for post gallbladder removal is to eat not much of anything. I started researching how not having a gallbladder might come back to haunt me in these later years and I wonder if I'm being overly cautious.

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