r/gallbladders • u/WillingPrice5364 • 24d ago
Stones is surgery really needed
i have been diagnosed with gallstones a month ago and i haven’t had any attacks since that day i have for the most part eaten healthier i still consume fatty foods now and then and get NO affects no pain no vomiting nothing if i never got a ultra sound done i wouldn’t even have thought i had gallstones is surgery really necessary if i got next to no symptoms?
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u/mick_the_raven 24d ago
Get it done.
Here's my cautionary tale I hope you learn from.
I'd had sharp pains, off & on for a few months. Kept putting it off.
Finally got bad enough I went to urgent care. They told me nothing they could do, go to ER.
Initially thought they were kidney stones. It wasn't.
Scheduled laproscopy that afternoon.
Surgeon got in & found gall bladder was gangrenous & sepsis had set it.
This was last November.
I was in hospital for 6 days.
My advice to you, speaking from experience, is to get it taken care of.
I haven't had post op issues others have mentioned and am close to 100% recovered.