looks like I wont be around as much .... after 2 trips to the ER in less than 24 hrs

[amyjoy]

Starla, you are in my thoughts and prayers as well. [img]graemlins/rose.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/rose.gif[/img]

[Homemommie]

Thanks everyone!

They changed my surgical consult to Wed. [img]mad.gif[/img] and gave us instructions that if I was in to much pain to come back to the ER [img]mad.gif[/img] blah blah blah UGH

I am starting to feel some better though, DH had me get in the hot tub with the jets pounding on my back and that gave some relief and possibly helped a stone to pass [img]graemlins/thinking.gif[/img] I'll taking feeling relief anyway I can take it now!

Thanks for all the thoughts, prayers, and suggestions!! I'll keep you posted!

[Momof2agfans]

I hope everything goes well for you tomorrow. Will say a prayer for you. What a sweet DH you have!

[cebula_2005]

GET WELL SOON AND GOD BLESS YA!!!! [img]graemlins/heart.gif[/img]

[3castles]

My DH and I and my mother have all 3 had ours out in the past 3 years. Yes. ALL of us!!!
Aparently we live in a high gallbladder problem area. I don't live very far from Duke Medical Center in Durham, NC and they are doing studies
on it. Weird, huh?
Anyway, I thought I was dying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But on the upside, I went into surgery at like 9:30 that morning and was walking into the drugstore with my DH to get my prescription filled at 1:30! You get pretty sore from it, but if you've had a bad attack, the surgery is NOTHING compared to the attacks!!!!

I will keep you in my prayers this week. Best of luck to you and keep your chin up. You'll be better as soon as it's over!
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BTW...I'd keep your DH, he sounds A OKay!

[Homemommie]

Wow, you sure can handle pain well. The very fact that you're still on the computer is amazing.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I'm sure all of the hospital staff and my dh would disagree with you there after hearing me cry like a baby from the pain [img]eek.gif[/img]

I am just now on the computer and that is because I have enough pain meds in me that I can sit up a little and have my laptop propped up on pillows beside me.

I'm a big baby when it comes to pain.


Thank you everyone for your warm wishes, thoughts, and prayers! They are all apprecited!

We have a surgical consult in the morning so I'll let you know what happens from there.

[TFD68]

I don't know you very well (yet) but I have added you to my prayers. I do hope they'll do your surgery soon and that they'll be able to do it laparscopically. The recovery from that is SO much easier.

Stay away from anything with fat in it. That kicks the gallbladder into hyperdrive.

[jamtoday]

Starla, you are in my thoughts and prayers. And I hope you have a super speedy recovery after the surgery. We'll miss you around here while you're gone!

[Jeanette M.]

Oh, Starla, even after 27 years of being gallbladder-free, I can still feel your pain! Just take it easy while you wait, and the surgeon will have that thing out of there in no time. And be thankful every day that laparoscopic surgery is available for this procedure - I have a 6-inch vertical scar on my short-waisted torso from my gallbladder-ectomy; and it took me about two months to be completely recovered. [img]eek.gif[/img] Yours (according to everyone else here, and other of my family members who have had the procedure laparoscopically) should be a piece of cake!

<font color="#051E50" size="1">[ February 27, 2006 07:27 PM: Message edited by: Jeanette M. ]</font>

[DaisyDee]

Starla, Even if you have to wait a few days, consider yourself so lucky that you are getting the surgery! I had a mystery pain that would come and go every so often, and then last year it got horrible! I went to the health center at my university, and was told that I was having a Gall Bladder attack. I suffererd for a couple of weeks before the pain finally subsided. Since I am an adult going to college, I don't have a fulltime job with benefits, and therefore I have no insurance. I wasn't able to get all the tests or the surgery, and I still get pain. One of the things that helped me, was cutting out a lot of fat from my diet and adding a lot more fiber. When you eat fatty foods, it causes the gall bladder to produce the necesssary chemicals to break down the fat, but if you have a stone or a lot of sludge in the tract, it becomes blocked, and that is what causes the pain. By cutting out the fat, you "turn down" the gall bladder's activity. Fiber helps keep the digestive system and the gall tract running smoothly. Also, try eating frequently. When your gall bladder sits for a long time between meals, it allows stones or sludge to build up. Gall bladder disease is also hereditary. There is a very good chance that others in your family have had, or will get gall problems. Good luck, you will feel better soon!

~Dee