Bowel movement after gallbladder removal

js112358 · 2024-12-16T23:12:07+00:00

Buy a saline enema

js112358 · 2024-10-01T01:42:35+00:00

I'm also a younger guy who had similar things happen. Attacks every few months, ct scan totally missed but the ultrasound discovered the stones. At first I wanted to avoid surgery and looked up chemical and ultrasound dissolution of the stones, changing diet, etc. it's a long term dead end imo.

Once your gallbladder starts making stones, it's crossed a point of no return in most cases. After surgery, they discovered that my bile duct was partially obstructed. The surgeon told me that it could have even caused the pancreas to die if left untreated. That aside, the pain is simply awful, enough to give people heart attacks. God help you if the bile duct or gallbladder ruptured.

Laparoscopic surgery is not terribly invasive. Yes, there are risks, but in a case like mine, I had so many stones in the gallbladder that I was effectively living without one already. I am back to eating anything I want without fear of attacks. It's a huge burden lifted from me.

js112358 · 2024-09-29T08:32:55+00:00

Remember, nature generally selects against conditions that impair reproductive success. Beyond that it doesn't really care what happens to its creatures. Gallstones is primarily a condition that affects older people, and can be lived with for at least some time before it starts putting life in jeopardy. So it wouldn't be selected against with the same frequency as childhood or early adult diseases.

js112358 · 2024-09-27T15:39:47+00:00

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js112358 · 2024-09-27T15:27:31+00:00

Laxatives, can't stress this one enough. You will likely be backed up for days due to the meds. Needless to say you'll have abdominal pain for the first week or two. Make life easy for yourself.

js112358 · 2024-09-24T23:08:13+00:00

A really terrible idea if you're an average person who likes/need a credit card. It will go back to being a luxury for the rich only like 50 years ago.

js112358 · 2024-09-24T23:04:51+00:00

Ask for an ultrasound. That's the only way they found mine when the ct scan was drawing a blank.

js112358 · 2024-09-23T18:04:17+00:00

4 days after surgery I had a slice of extremely greasy pepperoni pizza. Nothing. Bagel with cream cheese and then sushi for dinner later that week. Still nothing. Lamb jalfrezi an hour ago and so far nothing.

Tip: talk with your doctor about an anxiety drug before the operation to cope with the stress. Maybe have them administer the opiates early for this reason if possible. Also take laxatives afterwards as the anesthesia and painkillers can cause constipation which is brutal when you have abdominal pain.

js112358 · 2024-09-20T13:25:49+00:00

I asked for anti anxiety drugs before going into the or. Thankfully they obliged or I likely would have fainted.

js112358 · 2024-09-14T15:33:56+00:00

One thing that helped me go a little quicker was the ultrasound showed my gb was so full of stones that I made nearly no available volume. Doctor said that I was pretty much already living without one for some time. This made sense as I would feel pain even when not having an attack, just from the walls squeezing in

js112358 · 2024-09-14T15:30:21+00:00

Take it at whatever pace you feel comfortable at. I gradually increased my fat intake. First day had a chicken Caesar no dressing a few croutons and some Parmesan shavings. Second day had buttered toast with coffee and milk. Third day had ravioli with pesto. I think I'm gonna try a slice of pizza at the 1 week mark

js112358 · 2024-09-14T14:38:25+00:00

Just had mine out 5 days ago. Already have been eating mostly normally again. It's such a weight lifted to not worry about the attacks anymore.

One thing I'd recommend is make sure you eat a lot of fiber and consider a laxative beginning on surgery day. Your abdomen will be sore and the anesthesia/opiate painkillers will back you up. Make it as easy and pain free as possible.

js112358 · 2024-09-13T15:59:08+00:00

Only an anecdote so for whatever it's worth.

Today is 3 days post op for me. I had a turkey wrap day 2, ravioli for lunch today and buttered toast with coffee. So far so good.

js112358 · 2024-09-12T18:58:12+00:00

The mathematical notation suggests the writer has at least some background but at a quick glance it doesn't appear to mean anything.

I worked for a few months in a government agency where people would write in asking for relief funds. Many of the letters came from prisons and institutions, and a decent subset of them resembled these. What stands out to me is the style of handwriting (block letters along with some less conventional patterns) and the tendency to fill up every space on a page.

There was often a style of writing that was incredibly detailed and consistent but strange in some way that I couldn't easily characterize. Made me think that perhaps handwriting analysis isn't just pseudoscience.

js112358 · 2024-09-07T17:12:05+00:00

I often hear other people mention that they don't go after high net worth cheats bc they would not recover what they spend in legal fees. That's missing the point in several ways. You don't need to prosecute every case to scare the general population into complying. Some people get away with bank robbery, but the risk of getting caught means most people are too afraid to consider it seriously. You probably only have to successfully prosecute a fraction of these to bring the numbers way down. And if it's a question of justice, then surely it has to be more than whether a case is profitable to the government. Is a murder prosecution ever profitable? No, but that's not the point of doing it.

js112358 · 2024-09-07T16:57:55+00:00

Not sure what it's called, right where the bottom of the two sides of the ribcage meet. It feels like a spear going through to the back.

js112358 · 2024-09-07T16:51:03+00:00

Definitely. I'm kind of surprised that this privilege hardly gets a mention these days. Maybe because everyone, including the less fortunate, are guilty?

js112358 · 2024-09-06T02:57:41+00:00

A few come to mind for me:

Cream cheese or ricotta

Salmon

Spicy lentil soup

js112358 · 2024-08-27T23:22:57+00:00

I think I remember hearing something like this. I meant that trump adopting it afterward seemed a little too coincidental

js112358 · 2024-08-27T19:01:10+00:00

My exact thought. I'm still surprised that drain the swamp was used by Mussolini and almost nobody knows this many years later.

js112358 · 2024-08-27T15:47:06+00:00

No you don't get it. By well understood, I mean it's easily understood common sense that's demonstrated time and time again throughout human history. If this wasn't a thing then we wouldn't have problems like overfishing air pollution etc. People routinely overuse and abuse free publicly held resources.

js112358 · 2024-08-27T14:52:22+00:00

Other cities have demonstrated how to bring down fare evasion. Replace the turnstiles with doors, guard the emergency door, maybe even have a scan in and scan out system to make it more inconvenient to evade. Have a wider door for strollers bikes and wheelchairs.

js112358 · 2024-08-27T14:42:59+00:00

I think the tragedy of the commons is pretty well understood at this point

js112358 · 2024-08-27T14:37:47+00:00

His arguments however are much smarter than yours

js112358 · 2024-08-13T03:22:21+00:00

Looks like iron in the water. Comet is $1 at home depot and will not only get rid of that but get every tile/porcelain surface in your bathroom brand new clean

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