[health]

[wispfox]

Seems very likely that I have gallstones (will hopefully find out for sure on Thursday). Made for an... interesting weekend, and much of last week. I wish google would have taken my various symptoms and made the suggestion, instead of me having to notice a fat intake association, and guessing gallstones, because all of my recent various confusing symptoms fall under gallstones.

I'm really rather tired of having to worry about stones in my organs, dammit! Stupid hereditary things... (asked; it runs in my family, just like the kidney stones)

Ah, the joy.

Also? Ow. But at least now I know about the fat association and can _sleep_ at night without having to take strong painkillers.

Comments

[randysmith]

Pardon my callousness, but I'm feeling really glad, because it sounds like you have a very likely diagnosis. That's fits all the symptoms I'm aware of you having, which is really cool.

But yeah, I'm not sure how to fit that diagnosis path with gallbladder removal not really cramping your style (in terms of what you can eat). Hopefully there are things that can be done about stones short of removal.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Someone replied above saying that the removal of it only caused need for caution about high fat foods for the first year or so, to allow the body to adjust to the lack of gallbladder participation. So perhaps it won't be awful.

[(Anonymous)]

Seriously, my dad had his out while in the hospital and reasonably sick with something else and could eat a normal diet without any unusual-given-his-other-conditions amount of pain within a couple of days. He was walking the day after surgery and off prescription pain meds in less than a week. Your gall bladder *holds* bile but doesn't make it, and it's very unusual to have any long-term effects from removal.