What was worse: VSG or Gallbladder surgery??

 I have been having an intermittent pain on my right side under my ribcage. It is getting worse, and I am afraid that its my gallbladder. I have been taking the meds since surgery to try and avoid gallstones. I will be 5 months out tomorrow, and have lost 50 lbs (which I didnt think was rapid enough to cause gallbladder issues). Anyway, I had a TERRIBLE recovery from VSG - severe nausea, pain, etc. Only lasted about a week but it was bad enough to scare me from having another surgery. I have been putting off calling the surgeon for an US hoping that it would get better, and my husband is having surgery mon so right now I need to take care of him. 

For those that had gallbladder removed in a separate surgery from VSG - how did it compare? Did you have any nausea post op? How many incisions? I already have 4 from VSG - anyone have them go in using the same incisions? How long were you off from work? Did your bariatric surgeon remove your gallbladder?

Thanks so much for any input!

I was more nauseated with my VSG. I went on a very bland, no fat diet for 4 days before the GB surgery. Because we're a military family, all surgeries are performed through "General Surgery" and I demanded that my assisting bariatric surgeon do my GB surgery. I had an extensive history with my VSG and my primary surgeon was deployed. Dr. R was familiar with my case and had been managing my care since Dr. M was deployed.

I wasn't emplyed so no time off work for me, but I was on restricted activity for 6 weeks. That restriction is because of the additional exploratory he performed while in there. . He used the same incisions, but I gained a new incision in my bellybutton. I was also scoped and had a lot of scar tissue, adhesions removed from abdominal cavity during the gallbladder surgery. My pain/discomfort was related to the adhesion removal more than the gallbladder issues. I took pain meds the first day home and then 800mg Motrin for pain since narcotic pain meds often cause me constipation. I was up and walking out of recovery within 1.5 hours, and home shortly thereafter. I drank grape juice and ate some Teddy Graham crackers before they'd let me go home.

Overall, it was much easier, less painful, and I had immediate relief from my GB symptoms.

 You crack me up, Tiff. For some reason the mental picture of a grown woman happily munching Teddy Grahams and grape juice just tickles me. 

Bwahahaha, I gobbled those little nuggets of joy down considering I had been restricted to saltine crackers, chicken & stars soup, vanilla yogurt and water for 4 days. Those cinnamon teddy grahams were mine, all mine. My husband reached for some since we had been there since the asscrack of dawn, and I slapped his hand. My surgeon said "always a fat girl inside this little machine of a wife you got".

 VSG was worse.  Gall Bladder is a piece of cake.  Just dont let them remove your gallbladder when you are having an attack.  I got Pancrintitis (sp) because of that.   That is the worse pain ever!  That was before VSG and when I was 16 weeks pregnant.  Not fun. 

 The pain afterwards is about equal.  

Sleeve might be a tiny bit worse, but not much.  I had more intense pain with gall bladder, but I had more consistant pain with sleeve.  So, it's equals out.  

Example:  It was hard to get out of bed in the morning after gall bladder surgery.
It was easier with sleeve, but sleeve gave me more constistant pain during the day.

 I've had gallbladder surgery but not yet VSG. The surgery pain wasn't that bad for me. The attack beforehand was so bad I called 911. I don't imagine anything could be that intense. The only thing that calmed it was some really strong pain meds.  I look forward to more responses. 

My recovery from both was not bad at all...I had my gallbladder surgery when my daughter was 3 weeks old....i was still recovering from a csection...but i didnt think none of the 3 were bad

I had myu gallbladder removed at 18, so almost 10 years prior to VSG and hands down VSG was 10x worse.  I was up and about after gallbladder in just a few days, VSG was at least a week.  I think perhaps VSG is so bad because 1 it's painful, 2, you are having to learn a new lifestyle at the same time and that makes it harder.  When you hurt and are stuck at home after surgery, you want to comfort eat (at least i do) and you can't with VSG so that makes it more difficult.  

Good luck!

 I had emergency gb surg 3 months post sleeve...and my sleeve surgeon did that surg too.  I think the sleeve surg was a little worse .  I did not have any nausea with gb surg. I only had one gb attack and it was awful....I would nt wait for more to spen if. We're u...call your doc

Patty