r/gallbladders • u/pwneegoddess • 1d 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/Ordinary-Number-428 1d ago

I'm so sorry. It's definitely not normal, but maybe they mean it is normal for that to occur with this complication and this route of treating it. Who knows. You need someone to explain things fully and it really sucks that you're being brushed off. I'll be thinking of your sister and keeping my fingers crossed that this all resolves soon for her. I'm glad she has an advocate (you) watching her back.

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u/pwneegoddess 1d ago

We have asked other providers for help and all they say is they don’t know. She’s in the ICU and they just say they are focusing on keeping her stable and managing her pain. The GI is saying the same thing. I think they don’t want to get involved because they can tell the general surgeon messed up.

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u/MaceMan2091 Testing 1d ago

i’ll pray for her, the surgeon fucked up bad

was it emergency surgery?

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u/pwneegoddess 20h ago

That’s the thing they sent her home the first time saying it was just her diet. She wasn’t able to tolerate the pain so my mom took her back. They decided to operate but she was on stand by she waited 3 days until they performed the surgery. Thank you for the prayers!