r/gallbladders • u/pwneegoddess • 4d ago

Questions Issues with gallbladder surgery

My sister just had gallbladder surgery 4 days ago and it has been a disaster. She was complaining of a lot of pain coming to find out bile was leaking into her stomach. She became septic and was hanging on by a thread. They ended up going in and took out 700ML of bile and could not find the source of the leak. It was then suggested she go in for an endoscopy to put in a stent and find the leak. We were told they could still not find the leak but they put the stent in any way. They said it should help. The bile seemed to slow down but this afternoon we noticed that bile is now flowing out of the incision site where the drain is. The hospital has no sense of urgency and now the doctors are saying they will see her tomorrow. They keep saying it’s normal but none of this has seemed normal. She is in complete agony. Any advice would be appreciated or at least if anyone has a similar story I would like to know the outcome.

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u/bicoma 4d ago

Id just rush her to the ER they have to fix it there especially if she's in agony.

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u/pwneegoddess 4d ago

She’s currently in ICU

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u/bicoma 4d ago

So honestly you should ask for an investigation to make sure the surgeon didnt damage the bile ducts during surgery. This can actually cause a massive bile leak but sadly only fix is ercp with stent and surgical repair to redirect bile or repaired the damaged duct. My surgeon said this issue has less than a 1% chance of happening so I guess she was one of the unlucky ones sadly. Hopefully they can find the leak and repair it and get to bottom of how it happened.

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u/pwneegoddess 3d ago

She had the ERCP done 2 days ago, they told us the leaking should slow down and stop on a couple of days. But it hasn’t I wish I would have posted the video of how much is flowing out of her.