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What Is the Result of Your Surgery?
Posted: 12-10-05 20:23pm

Heather and donna,

what is the result of your surgeries? Did you become normal after the surgery?

Thanks
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donna79 wrote:

heather,

that's great! At least your getting somewhere now!
I had dull aches under my ribs after the ultrasound . I was fine during it but then when I got home the aches started.

Tomorrows the "big day" ...A little nervous but more anxious to get this diseased old thing outta there.
Will keep ya posted on how it goes.

Good luck on your meeting with the surgeon!

Donna

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Sod-sphincter of Oddi Dysfunctin Posted: 12-12-05 14:42pm


I have read many of your posts and just want to give you another perspective. After years of occasional pain, two pg's with severe heartburn, my appendix and gall bladder removed.... I continued to have severe pain after my second child. I would go to er after 1-2 hours of constant pain in upper right side seemed to start in my back and surround my whole upper body with a terrible tightening feeling, spasms accompanied it. After continued blood work with elevated liver enzymes and sometimes pancreas enzymes also elevated, I was sent to a specialist who did an ercp and found sphincter of oddi dysfunction. It is a problem with the opening of one's bile duct. After three surgeries in one year, it has been almost a full year and feeling better than in years. The surgeon goes through your mouth, doing an ercp, then dilates the bile duct and puts a stent in that will pass naturally in a week or so. Worth asking your physician about this diagnosis.

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Re: What Is the Result of Your Surgery?
Posted: 12-12-05 15:13pm

Previous posts of mine, within this link can answer your questions.

Take care,
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heather and donna,

what is the result of your surgeries? Did you become normal after the surgery?

Thanks
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donna79 wrote:

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Re: It Hurts Posted: 01-16-06 19:19pm


Hi I had the hida scan done today and I was scared to death and it was nothing,so dont be worried the worst part is the iv

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Re: I Have the Same Symptoms! It Has Been Horrible. I Am
Posted: 02-03-06 00:52am

concerned mom67 wrote:

well well I have a 17 yr old daughter who is a very smart girl in school and she hasn't been in school since jan , she's in alot of pain and she has problems with her ribcage , sore sides, back , last week I took her to the er and they gave her an inhalation . Now I feel she's being a guinea pig for them because they don't know what to do with her . She's had upper gi, 3 ultrsounds, the light put down , biopsies , she's on pentaloc pills for her stomach . The biopies came back ok , her stomach is inflamed , and she's got alot of acid in her esophagus
. She does vomit the odd day if she eats, she's at the point where if she eats she will get sick and if she doesn't eat she will get sick . She finds if she sits too long she gets sore and if she moves around too much she gets sore there seems to be no happy medium with her at all.Her pain is all over her chest cavity can anyone help me before I take a nervous breakdown over this

:cry: it sounds like gallbladder! I have the same symptoms, dr says I have crystals in gallbladder.

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Gallbladder Removal Posted: 02-07-06 13:59pm


I've had problems for about a year now, but mine come and go so sporadically i've never looked into it. I can go weeks without pains. They have been coming more often now and more severe. It starts out as a pain like indigestion/heartburn where my rib cage meets. Then spreads. And goes through to my back in the same area. It is extremely painful. It does not relate to what I eat. I can go hours or over the course of an evening and not have the pain til afternoon without eating anything else. These attacks can last up to 6 hours. Literally laying rolling around in agony. I have a 4 year old and a 1.5 year old so going to the doctor or emergency room isn't always that easy. I finally went to urgent care during one bout and the doctor saw where I was holding myself at mid rib cage area to under the right rib cage and sent me to the hospital saying he thought it was my gallbladder. The hospital took my blood and my pains started subsiding. They said they also thought it was my gallbladder but my blood tests came back fine. I had an ultrasound of my gallbladder 2 days later and found nothing. No stones, no sludge and no thickening of the lining. But my family doctor also believed it was still my gallbladder so I had the gallbladder scan (hida) done. It showed that my gallbladder didn't start working as quickly as it should and it took longer for it to dump than usual, but it was still within the normal range. Since that scan i've had another attack that sent me to the emergency room and another that almost sent me there but finally subsided. My husband was out of town during my last attack and it was in the middle of the night so I had to suffer through the night and had someone come watch the children early in the morning so I could go to the e.R. They had to give me demerol which didn't touch the pain and then gave me toradol which finally subsided my pain. They took blood again and just told me to keep my appointment with the specialist and gave me a script of vicodin and said to come back in if the pain was too unbearable. My family doctor sent me to the specialist who is also a surgeon and I walked in and he handed me gallbladder surgery paperwork. He said that recommended I have my gallbladder removed. He said I was classic gallbladder symptoms, but my gallbladder does start working and does eventually dump so that is the only difference. He says he can only be 80% sure that it is my gallbladder. I asked if there were other tests that can be done to find something else and he said I was no symptomatic of anything else that it could be in that area. If it were liver I would be in pain all the time and if it were ulcer related I would have pains after eating. So I am now scheduled to have my gallbladder removed on february 20th. I'm alittle leary of having an organ removed that he's not 100% sure will take care of my problems. He said it was up to me and I could just do nothing but I would be taking the chance of continuing to have to go to the emergency room and taking pain medicines and eventually it could just stop working all together and having to have emergency surgery and possibly not having the luxury of having it done laproscopically and more pain and more recovery time. I feel like a walking time bomb, never knowing when i'll have an attack and i'm not able to take care of my children during an attack (it is that severe) and i'm afraid the pain medicine will knock me out or something. The pains i'm talking about I rank right up there with 8 centimeters dialated labor contractions. That never go away for the full 6 hours. Has anyone else had the classic gallbladder symptoms like me but them coming sporadically like this? And has anyone had their gallbladder removed without it being emergency or stones that caused it to be removed?

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Posted: 02-10-06 12:41pm


I have the same thing except I had 3 agonizing 'attacks'. 2 this past summer followed by a month of flu-like symptoms including the dull ache on right side that occasionally turns from ache to pressure to sometimes pain. The third time (end of jan) it happened I have all the same above symptoms plus when I breath in deeply I feel a spot on my back that's sore (almost like a small sore muscle but when pressed it doesn't hurt). I too have a toddler and it's very difficult with all of the symptoms and the exhaustion. All of my tests have come back normal including hida scan yesterday. I have an appt today with gi doctor to discuss what to do next and i'm going to ask what the numerical % was. To respond to your statement about the surgery. I have read online several natural surgery alternatives that include things like fruit juices or olive oil regimens. Couldn't hurt to try. I've been hesistant only because I want to have a diagnosis before I treat anything so I could gauge any progress. Good luck. I'd like to hear what you decide to do and your results.

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the Pain Under Right Ribs Posted: 02-17-06 14:44pm


This all just strated for me but it sounds exactly like me. Pain in my lowerd right rib cage. Its hard for me to swallow and when I breathe in I get to a certain point and it feels like someone has a blunt object and is jamming it into some organ in there. I cant hardly stand up all way or stretch. And yesterday along with the four days prior to that I kept having a pain in my top right collar bone.... I feel like I am falling apart at the seams and I am only 20 yearsold!!! Any suggestions as to how to alleviate these pains? I am popping ibuprofen 200mg like m&m's. Its getting ridiculous! And I have no health insurance so I can't go to a regular doctor....So I need some type of feed back. Please someone respond! :cry:

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Right Chest Wall Pain Posted: 02-25-06 16:54pm


This is my first posting, having read all your emails. I am desperate, and in my 3rd week off work. I have severe pain under the right rib cage - literally covering the whole area from just under the breast to the very bottom rib, continuing right to the mid back. It aches constantly, waking me at night as well, and worses upon any movement and breathing. I also cannot pass my hand along the area as there is tremendous pressure - like a balloon about to burst. I have had a chest x-ray - clear. And an u/s - liver, gallbladder, and kidney, all normal. I was worried I might have a 'dead' right kidney and am thankful that is not the case. Currently, I am on bedrest with rx of advil (600 mg t.I.D), and the tylenol 2 (2 - 3 per day). As mentioned above, this is now day 14, and I am going into week 3 absent from the office. I did have some pain and pressure point tenderness for about one month prior, which I ignored and treated with otc aspirin-base painkillers. 14 days ago, I went for a short walk to the bank, and that was it. I arrived home in extreme discomfort so as to render me non-functional. The current working dx is chest wall inflammation. I plan to treat aggressivly with nsaids and hope for the best. In the meantime, monday am looms ahead and I don't know that I will make it ... Any advice or thoughts would be most appreciated. Like mss mugsyann below, I can't stretch or anything either. And it is ony one side - thanks very much judiemac

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Gallbladder Posted: 03-19-06 12:33pm


My gall bladder is empting slowly but has no stones is this a cause to have it removed

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Re: Gallbladder
Posted: 03-22-06 18:47pm

gallbladder wrote:

my gall bladder is empting slowly but has no stones is this a cause to have it removed

i had no stones to speak of & all tests came out positive, but after surgery found out my gb was inflamed with adhesions all over it & cholesterol polyps inside. I was also in a great deal of pain & had been nauseated for several years before that almost on a daily basis. Unless you are having pain & are sick all the time, i'd hesitate to rush into surgery.

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Re: 13 Year Old With Pain Posted: 03-31-06 23:32pm


Please, any help.......Thanks[/quote] i just had to respond to you, my heart goes out to you and your family because we lived through the same exact fears and uncertainty. Our daughter was at the emergency room numerous times, had every test known, ct scans, ultrasounds, pap smears, and finally 3 doctors told us she just had an eating disorder because they couldn't figure anything else out. She was a freshman in high school and missed a month all put together before she passed out in class and we had enough. We drove 2 hours to st. Louis to cardinal glennon hospital emergency room. We saw a wonderful doctor there named sara barlow, who within 20 minutes diagnosed her with ib and gerd. It seemed too simple. She put our daughter on nexium 2 times a day and celexa to desensitise the stomach and a blander diet. She is now a senior getting ready to graduate and doing fantastic. Hang in there. God bless you. :d

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Pains In Upper Right Rib And Back Posted: 04-02-06 17:48pm


Hi.. I m new here and listening to all your posts.. I just had a new kidney put in me not so long ago.. Was doing ok.. I have the same pains as all of you..Cept the nauseau and vomiting.. Heres all the tests I have short of a biopsy.. 2 sonagrams/1 cat scan/1 endoscopy/1 mri 1 hida scan.. And guess waht they found "chronic gastrititis/mucous something /small hiatis hernia.. Plus I have cysts in my old kidneys and my liver for years now.. And they never grew.. Im so afraid this is it.. I cant beleive my last stop was the gastro Dr. Who said to see a hepatic (liver Dr.) nice.. And then when I called up to make the appointment.. The girl on the phone said: transplant dept. Omg>. Now im really a wreck!! Btw.. Im goin for phycical therapy for my upper back pain which seems to be helping..My husband is so upset and thinks its all muscles.. After I eat?? I dont know how much I could hold out.. Tonight was he worst.. I had chick parm /sauce/stove top stuff/ mixed vegies and water.. Very sharp pain (after eating) went away 5 mins later..

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Similar Symptoms Only Gb Has Been Gone For Several Years... Posted: 05-16-06 13:59pm


Hi, I was wondering if anyone else has been checked for other problems? I went in for routine blood work prior to my annual physical. A week later, I received a call from the doctor wanting me to come back in for more blood tests because my liver test came back "extremely high". Since then, I have had a hepatitis screening and ultrasound, which all came back negative. I have more blood work this thursday and then possibly an appointment with a specialist. I am at wits end because I have had low grade fevers and this sharp pain in my right rib cage for over a year. The last ge thought it was scar tissue or blocked bile ducts, which tests proved negative. This is the first time I have had liver tests come back abnormal. The pain and nausea doesn't come and go...It's always there. The painful area is about the size of my open hand. I cry quite often from the sheer helplessness I feel. I know I am hurting, and something has to be causing it. Even if it is bad news, I want to know something. I am tired of being poked and prodded, as this makes the pain even worse. Can anyone relate to this, and, if so, what was the diagnosis and outcome? Thanks for all of the previous postings on here because at least i'm not the only who feels nuts or helpless...

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Liver/gallbladder Cleanse Posted: 11-25-06 20:44pm


My husband and I have been working with a "holistic healer". Not sure what her title is but she did get a degree. Anyway, we did a colon cleanse and then a liver cleanse. The liver cleanse yielded very interesting results. It cleans out your gallbladder as well. I don't know how many stones I passed (in the stool) but I started out with little green pea-size stones. Then I ended up passing ones that were the size of a gumball. Then to my surprise I had one 2 inches long by 1 inch wide!! It did not hurt to come out. These were in my body!!! I never had pain but I am hearing too many stories of people getting their gallbladders removed because of too many stones and here I was able to do it naturally!!! Docs won't tell you that. Now I am no expert and should you try it then I suggest you research before you do it. Type in "liver cleanse" in google. It is not the most pleasurable thing on the earth but it beats pain and definitely surgery. You may be surprised what comes out. I am going to do another one soon.

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Posted: 07-31-07 05:18am


omg I didn't realize just how common this sort of pain is I am not so freaked out now but god it hurts I have pain in the shoulder blades ribs both and sometimes it is only in the centre of my right rib it even radiates around my right side to the back makes my breasts hurt and all of my chest front part including my breast can be sore to push down on it usually comes and goes and usually happens more when I sit down for long periods but boy oh boy I am just hoping it isn't something bad ok well I feel a little better to know I am not alone and calm down a little because when you get awful pain like this you freak out automatic fear kicks in anyway if anyone has got any ideas chime in with them

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Wow... Posted: 08-04-07 14:54pm


I found this forum last night and I am so amazed at the similarities of symptoms!! Here's my story... I had a diseased gall bladder and ended up having it removed in late December of last year. I have had minor pains off and on since then in my upper right quadrant but nothing that lasts or is too intense (I attributed it to scar tissue or something). Last Sunday morning I woke up feeling fine then on the way to church started having slightly intense stabbing/seizing pain in the same place(feels like just below my lowest right rib) and also in my back. I went to the ER because it felt so similar to the pains I had in December and I didn't want another 5 day hospital stay if it could be avoided. Well, all my bloodwork came back normal with the exception of slightly elevated bilirubin. I was sent home with a prescription for "stomach cramps." Since when do you have stomach cramps under your rib?! At any rate, the pain has increased all week and I feel slightly ill and sometimes nauseous. I ended up back at the ER Thursday night with more pain and a slight fever. They did the same blood tests, filled me with morphine and sent me home. I tried just a general practitioner who prescribed more anti-stomach-cramping stuff and I have felt SO sick ever since I started taking them. I am scheduled for an ultrasound on Tuesday morning and I have an appointment with my surgeon on Wednesday... I have also noticed pain when I press on the area just right and sliiightly anterior of my belly button that it produces a good amount of pain. A doctor friend of mine is thoroughly convinced that I have inflammation of the common bile duct and that a week of cypro would clear everything out... Not sure, but it sounds like an idea. Anybody have any thoughts on this?

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I Am Not Alone Posted: 08-29-07 12:54pm


I am so relieved to hear that I am not alone in this battle. It has been almost 2 months, with all of the same symptoms as everyone lists. I am loosing weight pretty fast and I am hungry! But if I eat I am miserable. In the last two weeks I have had an ultrasound - normal, Colonscopy and upper endoscopy - normal. On Tuesday I went in for a Hida Scan - still pending results. It is not like I want something to be wrong, but I just want them to find out what it is. The more normal results come back the more I feel like they think it is in my head. They doctors keep mentioning that I am only 23, and that my symptoms sound like gall bladder problem but I am to young. I am so tires of hearing that. I am tired of being miserable, and I know the odds of my Hida Scan coming back normal are pretty high. I am not gonna give up until I feel better again. Good luck to all.

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Test Results Posted: 08-30-07 15:14pm


The hida scan came back normal.....Now what. The only results that have not come back are the biopsies from the endoscopy. I am sure they will probably come back normal too. I am not sure where to go from here. The doc said that the next step was to start me on a regimen of medicine if all of the tests pass. I am not excited about having to take a bunch of medication....and still not actually knowing what the problem is. I am not sure if I want find another doctor at a more well know hosptial or stick with the "farmer" hospital I am currently going to. Anyone have any words of wisom here?

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Posted: 09-11-07 19:47pm


I am having my hida scan next thursday. I am in so much pain and every test has come out normal?? If you are still in severe pain does your GI doctor send you to a surgeon anyway or let you go right on with the pain?