Post-cholecystectomy or gallbladder removal surgery

I had my gallbladder removed in early 2021 . It was done laparoscopically and I had 5 1 inch incisions. After it had healed I had recurring sharp grabbing pain where the gallbladder used to be. It’s been 2 years and it has gotten much better but not 100%. My gallbladder hadn’t been working for a couple years they said after they removed it so I had less of the digestive symptoms from lts removal than most.

Hi
I feel exactly the same. I am in so much pain now that I wish I didn’t have it removed. I only ever had one attack and no further problems and they removed my gallbladder. I’m suffering with a spasm in the left rib and intense back pain. I don’t know why and neither do the hospital. Are you any better now?

Last July (2022) had laparoscopic Gallbladder Cholecystectomy. Pathology assessment showed incidental finding of extrahepatic biliary intraepithelial neoplasia (BillN), low grade, in the gallbladder. Cystic duct margin is involved by biliary intraepithelial neoplasia, low grade (no evidence of high grade dysphasia and carcinoma. Doctor states (neoplasia BillN) is not cancer but a risk for developing cancer in the bile duct and/or liver exists. Recommend MRI and possible ERCP with (Spyglass) in 6 months.
3/20/2023: Had MRI with negative findings (Normal) however , surgeon recommends endoscopy ERCP to rule out any further issues. Has anyone experienced any kind of incidental findings following gallbladder cholecystectomy?

I know this is old so I hope you're better. But what you have is bile reflux and it's extremely hard to diagnose. It's taken me 3 years and 4 gastrointeroligists to get my diagnosis after gallbladder removal. I'm now looking into surgical correction as mine is also terrible and I didn't have this to this degree before gallbladder removal. The surgery is the Demeester Duodenal Switch. Few surgeons do it so travel is usually involved. Outcomes are very promising however. Good luck.

No I was diagnosed with EPI which is from no amylase production. I also have RCC which I was treated with radiation for hopefully in 6 months that will be in remission. If you are suffering any anxiety symptoms it could be caused by the problem I am having with my pancreas. If so it can cause worse symptoms including liver and digestion problems. I am seeing a couple more doctors about my issues. Yeah your problems could be pancreatic or enlarged spleen you should insist on a ct scan with contrast do they can check for anything else as well as ultrasound. Make sure you have all labs done concerning pancreatic function and for infections.

Interesting thanks for sharing..

Hi!

I am experiencing similar. Could you share an outcome or what the result was?

I know this is four and a half years since you asked, but I just saw it because I'm tired of my doctors simply ignoring the cause any more, don't want to go back to the ones who kept doing ERCPs and MRCPs to "solve" the problem, but never did, or constantly being told by my "pain management specialist" that it's my middle back, so thought I'd respond so maybe we can resolve this ourselves.

The back pain was only the day of the surgery. (July 7, 1999.) Overnight, it slid to my front, and is still there. Not as sore anymore, but only because I am on pain meds after a mere 18 months of "maybe it's-ing." Somewhere in those last 24 years, I've seen three GI specialists, have had 4 ERCPs, 4 MRCPs, spent a night in the hospital with a scope up my nose and all the way past my stomach, have had my SOD wiped out, found a singular gallstone left over, told it was a GI problem, told it was my back, have seen three kinds of back doctors, and kicked out the door of four doctors because the only thing that did help was oxycodone, (5 mg.) and after having me for a patient patient for 1-8 years, suddenly they didn't know how to handle someone on "narcotics." aka Yeah. Doctors are more interested in CYA than helping patients anymore.

So now I'm stuck with a "pain management specialist," who keeps telling me it's a pinched nerve in my thoracic region, despite the fact the the spine surgeon he refers people to, (and who refers people to him), has absolutely no idea why anyone bothered imaging my middle back. (After 20 years, my lower back and neck have deteriorated, because I spent years avoiding leaning over to avoid pain.) Worse yet, now that I do have back pain, the only way he gives me any pills that might help that is if I ask him for something specific. And when I do, he gives that to me, and doesn't give me the right instructions to give them a chance to work.

No ideas on what to recommend when it's your back still. I figure you already know how to eat. But two ideas for you.

1. Have you gotten a second opinion? As in, is it possible it is no longer the adhesion?

Asking, because it was supposed to be my SOD (Sphincter of Oddi), until the scrapped it twice so I have none. And it was supposed to be gallstones in my Common Duct, until they found none, (the second time.) And it is now supposed to be my spinal spondylosis, when, nope. My middle back is the only good back I still have left.

2. And, have you been given any better choices besides gabapentin? There's is a real world out here if your not so exhausted and foggy brained from that. (I was sick on that stuff for two months before I simply quit, so they had to try something else. And hubby is on it now for something else, but it zones him out too.) I didn't choose oxy. I tried at least 50 other drugs before giving in to the possibility of narcotics. Constantly constipated, have grown a real fondness for prunes, BUT the world is real now and the pain hit bearable.

(Worst comes to worst, at least we found someone else who has been stuck disabled for a long time over "one simple gallbladder removal."

Hey dear ..I'm going through the same thing

I wish I was more help but I have the exact same issue and so far my doctors are perplexed and have no idea. Maybe I'll ask them this.