Is this an ulcer?
Have you tried to decrease any fatty foods that you might be eating and see if you notice a difference? When I had my first round with my gall bladder and had sludge I realized when I switchd out higher fat foods my symptoms alleviated some.
Whereas with my ulcer, everything, even water, was causing me horrible pain.
Sludge can be weird in many ways. It's not a "true' indication of the need to remove the gall bladder, if you have sludge generally you need to also be symptomatic to have it taken out. I had sludge several years prior and my symptoms went away for years. After the RNY the symptoms were pretty unbearable.
I didn't have a HIDA scan last time we just decided to remove it about 4 or so months POST rny.
A Hida or a cholescintigraphy isn't too bad it's a nuclear imaging procedure you get injected with some chemical (can't remember which) and they judge the function or lack of function when it circulates through your system into your gall bladder.
HIDA Scan/Hepatobiliary Scan
nuclear medicine study called a Hepatobiliary Study.
It is a study of your gallbladder and the common bile duct which connects the
gallbladder to the liver and drains bile into the intestine. It is also called a
gallbladder scan.
The examination involves an injection of a small amount of radioactive material
into a vein in your arm. The material is then absorbed by your liver and excreted
in the bile. This permits visualization of the biliary tract and gallbladder.
The scans are taken with a gamma camera while you lie on a special cart. The
scans are taken every five minutes for 60 minutes. The doctor will then decide if
additional films are required. The length of the test is determined by how long it
takes the radioactive material to be absorbed by the hepatobiliary system. You
may have a second intravenous injection during the study, either morphine to
increase uptake into the gallbladder, or a synthetic form of a normal pancreatic
substance known as cholecystokinin (Uiuevac) in order to see how your
gallbladder contracts. This will be determined by the radiologist depending on
what your particular exam shows.
Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG
"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"
"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."
She put me on 3 dulcolax twice a day for 2 weeks after i told her i had diarhea for 5 days and there cant possibly be anything left.
Right now im waiting for my surgeon to come off of vacation august 7th
