Is it my Gall Bladder??? HIDA Scan??

Mar 31, 2015

Hey Lovelies,

It's been forever my OH family, I miss so many of you but life got in the way and the last few year were rough... But I am happy to say I am blessed despite my situations...I turned a new leaf and God and my church family has brought me out of a deep depr**sion....I even had to say the word!! But I thank God for the trails & tribulations because it is what brought me closer to him and finally allowed me to be the Christian I always wanted to be and now I am feeding my spirit with his scriptures and not self medicating to numb my feelings...thank you Jesus for CHANGE! I pray you all are well but read below and please provide some feedback. Thank in advance!

Short History: I had Lap RNY 7/29/10 and a revision in late 2013 because the opening of my pouch was widened and some how was causing acid reflux. I have never had issue with dumping and could pretty much eat anything in small portions. HW 292lb CW 172lbs

However, March 15th I woke up with terrible abdominal pain, nausea and diarrhea (sorry for tmi)...so I figured it was probably something I ate or drank the day before plus I had a few alcoholic beverages the night before as well. So I had hubby get some pepto mismo and ginger ale, I stayed in bed the whole day aside from bathroom and vomiting and it was gross because my stomach was empty so it was a lot gagging and dry heaving or throwing up yellow bile Yuck!! By the next day the pain was so severe I was hunched over & could barely walk, felt extremely bloated although I ate nothing since that Friday besides a little water. So that evening my husband rushed me too the ER. To my surprise I was admitted, had to get 2 units of blood because of severe anemia (I assume that was my fault b/c I wasn't taking my iron pills because they caused severe constipation), they also did a CT scan and ultrasound & discovered I had about 6 fibroids (1 the size of a plum & 2 cyst on my ovaries 1 they think that ruptured because of fluids seen.

So after 3 days of being hospitalized not eating while there I just assumed it was because I was in severe pain even w/pain meds they were giving that didn't provide relief for longer then 2 hours .

Anyways, I get home & hubby brought me a small chicken pot pie soup (my fav) from Quick Chek & I ate 1/3 of the soup with maybe 2 saltine crackers and shortly after I felt the WORST EXCRUCIATING pain ever, my stomach felt like a bowling ball was in it, I was in tears crying out to Jesus to provide some relief it lasted for a few hours. The following day I followed-up w/my ob-gyn  doc  and he adv'd I would need C-section surgery to remove fibroids but stated they would not affect my eating and recommended I see my RNY surgeon. So I go see my nut the following day and he goes based on your symptoms I "think" it's an Ulcer and prescribed meds for an Ulcer and told me to do liquids and protein shakes for a week or so and then try lite foods like a piece of toast and see how that goes.

The whole wkend I thought about his verbiage & didn't feel comfortable taking meds with him not sounding certain so that Monday I called his office and request to be sent to have an EGD, had scope on 3/26/15 and he also ordered an Ultrasound for abdomen, liver & gall bladder. The Dr. that performed EGD stated there were no signs of an Ulcer and my pouch is in perfect shape and adv'd me to try and start eating lite such as a half a turkey, tuna or egg salad sandwich slowly... I was so excited and thought I was all good until the following day at work I had 3 teaspoons of homemade egg salad & 2 saltine crackers and about 10 mins later I started to feel pain, 15 mins later it was the most horrible pain I ever felt I was reduced to tears, couldn't drive home and was picked up....got home the pain lasted for hours not even my prescription pain meds worked I tried every position but the pain was like a stabbing feeling, stomach felt heavy and bloated yet again and I immediately had to remove my bra at work because that made the pain worst. Then a few days later I was so hungry I had a few pieces of chips (BAD IDEA) pain attack came back while I was out at my sister's house, diarrhea, throwing up bile and dry heaving pain was so bad I was crying and doubled over. 

Long story short, RNY surgeon got ultrasound results back today and had his nurse call me I had already given her the ok to leave a message b/c I was at work and on the VM she stated the ultrasound showed no signs of gall stones and my surgeon wants me to have a test called HIDA SCAN to check the function of my gall bladder.

Please has anyone experienced this?? What was the issue? Have you taken the HIDA SCAN, if so how was it? I just want to know what's going on in my body..... I am only drinking water atkins & special K protein shakes & have really bad gas & it smells atrocious. I'm so wanting to eat, I'm losing weight and my work clothes are looking messy on me. Could it be my Gall Bladder?? This is horrible to be terrified to eat  I can barely sleep at night wondering what's going on with my body....especially knowing I already have to schedule surgery to remove fibroids in the near future.

I know the post is extremely long, but I really just need answers and advice to calm myself, doc really isn't telling me anything. Any response would be greatly appreciated.

God bless you all & thanks in advance for any feedback!!

-Kyra 

SN: wouldn't wish this on a worst enemy!! 

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