Weird Question
In the spot where they removed my gallbladder, the upper left largest incision, there is a hole in my stomach. It is healing fine, but the stomach is significantly indented in that spot.
My surgeon did say my gallbladder was huge and a solid gallstone, they had too cut through the muscle to get it out.
Just wondering if this is common and if it goes away?
on 7/23/14 12:17 pm
I didn't have my GB out, so I can't speak to that specifically -- but a couple of my incisions were seriously indented after surgery. I was very concerned, but my surgeon assured me it was normal. Here I'm 6 months out and the indented areas are all gone. Hope this pits you at ease.
"What you eat in private, you wear in public." --- Kat
A year ago I had my gallbladder out and several more operations within 2 weeks. From experience the dimple does go away once everything heals and settles out. That incision, per my doctor, takes a beating because they put the liver retractor thingamabob (technical term) in there. My surgeon put "deep stitches" in that spot each surgery.
Basically a lot of crap happened in that spot and it just takes a while for it to go back to normal.