Gall bladder removal after WLS
Hey Pat, sorry this is going on with you! I had to have mine out when I also had a hernia and a small bowel obstruction. My WLS surgeon is a general surgeon and I just wouldnt let anyone else operate on me. But, if I had to use someone else I guess I would, but I'd be talking to him first.
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Susan
Hi Pat,
yep I had to have my gall bladder taken out after my first WLS (gastroplasty, you know the old stomach stapled)...everyone in my "study group" had to have gall bladders out around 4 to 5 years out. (in 1980)
You do not have to have a bariatric surgeon do your surgery for gall bladder. I didn't.
yep I had to have my gall bladder taken out after my first WLS (gastroplasty, you know the old stomach stapled)...everyone in my "study group" had to have gall bladders out around 4 to 5 years out. (in 1980)
You do not have to have a bariatric surgeon do your surgery for gall bladder. I didn't.
Not sure about you RNYers. I have the lapband. I had my gallbladder out after the band. I knew I'd had gall stones for a year. A very wonderful, competant surgeon did the removal. Not a bariatric surgeon. The lab found cancer in the gallbladder. DO NOT wait. If I had waited longer, the cancer would have spread to my liver and other areas.
Grammylew in Jax
Pat,
I had my gall bladder removed about a year post RnY. My original bariatric surgeon had moved to California, so I went to a surgeon recommended by the gastroenterologist who diagnosed my gall bladder problem. [it was not stones; the gall bladder no longer contracted in response to the ingestion of a fatty meal, and it was giving me a lot of pain].
It turned out that the surgeon he recommended also does a lot of minimally invasive stuff, including lots of WLS, so she became my follow-on doctor for WLS and gall bladder. Worked out okay with me, since she is so knowledgeable about WLS. To me, the key factor is not that it has to be the same surgeon as the one who did the WLS, but a surgeon who is knowledgeable about the anatomy and special needs of a WLS patient.
I had a laparoscopic cholecystectomy (so now I have ten little scars on my abdomen--apparently she couldn't use any of the first set for the second procedure) which was done in day surgery and I went home the same day. No problems post-op and back to work after the weekend.
Hope all goes smoothly with your situation.
Best,
Judy G. from Waltham, MA (aka Shelto1946)
I had my gall bladder removed about a year post RnY. My original bariatric surgeon had moved to California, so I went to a surgeon recommended by the gastroenterologist who diagnosed my gall bladder problem. [it was not stones; the gall bladder no longer contracted in response to the ingestion of a fatty meal, and it was giving me a lot of pain].
It turned out that the surgeon he recommended also does a lot of minimally invasive stuff, including lots of WLS, so she became my follow-on doctor for WLS and gall bladder. Worked out okay with me, since she is so knowledgeable about WLS. To me, the key factor is not that it has to be the same surgeon as the one who did the WLS, but a surgeon who is knowledgeable about the anatomy and special needs of a WLS patient.
I had a laparoscopic cholecystectomy (so now I have ten little scars on my abdomen--apparently she couldn't use any of the first set for the second procedure) which was done in day surgery and I went home the same day. No problems post-op and back to work after the weekend.
Hope all goes smoothly with your situation.
Best,
Judy G. from Waltham, MA (aka Shelto1946)
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