Two and a half years without a gallbladder

grizmaldi•about 1 hour ago

I had my gallbladder removed as part of liver donation surgery over 20 years ago and have never had any digestive issues - and I eat everything.

__m•1 day ago

What would be the sypmtoms? I each pretty much everything, didn't change my diet and don't take any medicine.

yodon•about 1 hour ago

> What would be the sypmtoms?

Of an infected gallbladder?

Don't worry - the pain is so incredibly intense, there is zero chance you'll not be aware of it, regardless of how high you think your pain tolerance is.

Suppafly•about 1 hour ago

As someone that's been putting the surgery off for years, from what I can tell most people have basically zero symptoms afterwards, and those that do still aren't overly bothered by them, but there is a small but real percentage of people that have lots of digestive problems afterwards.

saghm•about 1 hour ago

My father used to have pain in his abdomen out of nowhere with a couple years in between, but they never could figure out what was wrong with him even during an extended hospital stay at one point. I think the earliest time I must have been in elementary school, but my first semester in college during the weekend where my parents were going to come down to visit for the first time, he had the recurring pain again that got so much worse than usual that he was jaundiced and my mother forced him to go to the hospital again (medical situations are basically the only circumstance where I've seen him get irritable), and it turned out that his gall bladder was completely full of stones that they said would have started spilling over into his liver and put that at risk as well if he delayed coming in for a few more hours. They removed his gall bladder, and he's never felt any symptoms in the decade since.

Lammy•40 minutes ago

If you're talking about post-cholecystectomy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yDkkeIMrBk

comrade1234•about 1 hour ago

I wonder if your bad cholesterol goes up in this case? This is because the liver uses cholesterol to create gall enzymes, which it excretes into the gall bladder with a bunch of left-over cholesterol too.

jjtheblunt•39 minutes ago

Gall bladder stores bile, which continues trickling down the common bile duct whether a storage facility sits off to the side ready to dump a bolus into the common bile duct. . With no bladder storing a bile bolus fatty foods might not be adequately digested from the trickle.

Barrin92•about 1 hour ago

> I started some medications that suppress appetite in 2021 and lost 20+ pounds relatively quickly.

Assuming she's talking about GLP-1 drugs those do indeed have been associated with gallblader (and other gastrointestinal) inflammation and disease.

Not necessarily causative here obviously but still in my opinion irresponsible to use for weight loss that isn't medically urgent.

aetherson•28 minutes ago

She's probably not? If she's gone two and a half years since her gallbladder was removed, and years before that when sge had gallstone symptoms but thought they were something else, that was before widespread use of GLPs.

Two and a half years without a gallbladder

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