After 1.5 years of gut pain and numerous doctor visits and procedures, I had given up and mostly accepted the gastroenterologist's diagnosis of possible IBS.
I had always thought it was my gallbladder so I requested a Hida scan in 2014 but never knew what the results were.
Last month we did a repeat MRI to check my liver hemangioma and it just happened to find sludge in my gallbladder so I called nurse and asked for Hida scan results: 39%.
I said, "I want to talk about this! Sludge and an old Hida that showed sluggish gallbladder even then?!"
The nurse, kind of snotty, asked if I wanted to speak to a general surgeon. Damn right I do!
Fast forward two weeks and surgeon says, "Yeah, let's take it out."
He told R (husband) that there was so much inflammation it should have come out a year ago. Dang it, doctors!!!
I caught this, they didn't catch it. I did.
Now I had my cholecystectomy on Thursday (01/14/16) afternoon and they shoved me out the door screaming in pain. I spent all day Friday at the ER with barely any pain relief and the CT scan revealed fluid in my abdominal cavity. What did they do? Nothing.
It's now 01/19/16 and I'm still in pain. Never underestimate the ability of the human body to find ways to torture itself.
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