[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.

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[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Not sure if your wanting to not talk about the hospital exp extends to what I'm about to ask, but feel free to refuse to answer, if you need to.

You mention that they sometimes go quiet after a flareup, and I'm wondering if that means no longer causing problems with fat intake, or if that means calming down with no fat intake at all? I'm asking because it's going on two weeks now with having pain at any fat intake at all, so it seems unlikely that it'll calm down. Also, apparently, my mom's dad had his gallbladder get infected from stones, so it seems at least somewhat more likely that would happen to me.

My mom has no troubles eating whatever she wants, and being as it's from her side of the family that this comes from, at probably means I will not either. Additionally, otherwise my digestive track is the least likely part of my body to cause me problems, as far as I recall. So I suspect I'd be one of the ones who would be fine after the surgery. (but yes, I was a bit concerned about the whole lack of storage receptical for bile post-surgery, and commented as such to my mom, who said it caused her no problems)

I am curious about the recipes; I'm generally not one to eat huge amounts of fat anyway (although my diet has been crap lately, due to my wrist tendonitis restricting what I can easily make/eat), so that tends to not be a huge issue. I actively dislike fried foods, and tend to dislike hugely fatty foods.

Thanks for the detailed reply. :)

(also, I'm now wondering if passing a gallstone is worse or better than passing a kidney stone. :)

[(Anonymous)]

Yet another thing I've learned from all my dad's recent stuff (besides that this summer is not a good time to have an abdomen -- sheesh!): passing gallstones can cause big trouble (like, say, an inflamed pancreas that lands you in the hospital for three weeks) on the way out. Because these complications are so horrific and the surgery is generally not so horrific, it seems to be recommended unless there's a pressing reason not to.