the gallbladder is a little sac underneath the liver that stores and secretes bile (used in digestion). Bile is produced by the liver, so it is ok to not have one...but not having one will cause digestive tract complications.
That's messed up, they didn't tell me that. Now I feel like making a doctor's appointment to see if I'm being internally screwed up from digestive tract complications.
Doctors don't tell people s***.
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Originally Posted by murphmitch
And the textbook patient is female, fat & forty! Sorry, but that's what they teach you in school. Stones actually get worse with rapid weight loss. It also runs in families.
Yep, the doctor did say that usually the patients were a lot older than I was and also a lot fatter. I was 15 and thin. Still to this day do not know how I managed to get gallstones.
Anyway, enough of my rambling about my gallbladder or lack of one! LORIANN, I am hoping everything turns out fine and that you will post ASAP to let us know if you are okay. Wish you the best.
Last edited by Fat Melanie; 08-27-2008 at 11:40 PM.
So after spending over six hours in the ER, I came home non the wiser as to the cause of pain. They did a CT scan, and anyone familiar with those can vouch for the uncomfortableness of it. That ruled out appendicitis. So for six hours I was deprived of water! I didn't mind not eating, stil not hungry and all I ate all day was a salad at 1230...
There was a lot of blood in the urine, so the dr thinks either I burst a cist in the fall, or there might be some bruising internally, or a kidney stone.
Anyway, I'll tell ya more sometime tomorrow, I'm tired.
I too was one of those that went on a quick weight lose program, got gallstones from the rapid weight lose and then ended up having horrific (and anyone who has had one knows what I mean) gall bladder attacks for a year before my doctor took me seriously enough to do an ultrasound. I had my gall bladder removed. I will say that I rarely get hearburn or indigestion any more but I was also told you can still get stones even if it is removed! Yikes!
I don't think I am going to have to worry about losing weight too fast---lol--so I think I am safe there.
So sorry to hear what you went through but I (and others) have been there.
OK, I thought I should of waited overnight before going in the other night, I only went due to the blood in urine and feeling light headed, and sick.
Two weeks ago I had all the symptoms of period (except bleeding) which is normal for PCOS and thats why I didn't think it was my TOM... cause it's not.
When I took the fall the night before the pain, I burst open a cyst! Thats why the sharp pain! The cramps didn't feel, don't feel, like pms cramps, but today I'm menstruating!
So, I racked up a HUGE er bill, for them to tell me "don't know"... to find out I was right in a burst cyst!
that things look up right away! 
