Comments on: And in the interim http://urbanurbane.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/and-in-the-interim/ dangerously knitting in the city Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:05:10 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: mg http://urbanurbane.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/and-in-the-interim/#comment-31 mg Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:52:45 +0000 http://urbanurbane.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/and-in-the-interim/#comment-31 this is like webmd! where are the new posts? of course my personal blog hasn't been updated for about three months so i can't say much. and who is this puss in boots? will it be going on stuffonmycat? this is like webmd! where are the new posts? of course my personal blog hasn’t been updated for about three months so i can’t say much. and who is this puss in boots? will it be going on stuffonmycat?

]]> By: angela http://urbanurbane.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/and-in-the-interim/#comment-30 angela Fri, 09 Mar 2007 17:12:02 +0000 http://urbanurbane.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/and-in-the-interim/#comment-30 Ann, the test for contractions and the test for emptying should both be part of the same thing - the HIDA scan. The HIDA gauges your emptying rate while the CCK injection (I believe this is what its called) can be done during the HIDA to check your contractions. As far as an endoscopic ultrasound, I didn't have one, so I can't help you there. My surgery went fine and so did the recovery. I'm still having problems but I dont blame my gallbladder surgery. I'm better off without it and just have to find out what else is wrong. Today I had a gastric emptying study and will soon find out the results. Lately I've figured out that if I eat fruit or anything with citric acid I can make myself sick. If I were you I would not buy into the culture of fear propagated online about gallbladder removal. It is definitely an easy surgery and sometimes it is performed unnecessarily I guess. Of course some people have complications too. I know someone who did. However, I found what i went through mentally reading page after page of scary stories and alt. medicine articles for months and months before my surgery to be 100 times worse than the surgery or the recovery itself. I think knowing the risks is important but obsessing over them as i was doing is harmful. Just a word about the bloating - it might not be the gallbladder. Mine wasn't. That doesn't mean you shouldn't have it removed. Good luck to you. Ann, the test for contractions and the test for emptying should both be part of the same thing – the HIDA scan. The HIDA gauges your emptying rate while the CCK injection (I believe this is what its called) can be done during the HIDA to check your contractions. As far as an endoscopic ultrasound, I didn’t have one, so I can’t help you there.

My surgery went fine and so did the recovery. I’m still having problems but I dont blame my gallbladder surgery. I’m better off without it and just have to find out what else is wrong. Today I had a gastric emptying study and will soon find out the results. Lately I’ve figured out that if I eat fruit or anything with citric acid I can make myself sick.

If I were you I would not buy into the culture of fear propagated online about gallbladder removal. It is definitely an easy surgery and sometimes it is performed unnecessarily I guess. Of course some people have complications too. I know someone who did. However, I found what i went through mentally reading page after page of scary stories and alt. medicine articles for months and months before my surgery to be 100 times worse than the surgery or the recovery itself. I think knowing the risks is important but obsessing over them as i was doing is harmful.

Just a word about the bloating – it might not be the gallbladder. Mine wasn’t. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have it removed. Good luck to you.

]]> By: Ann http://urbanurbane.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/and-in-the-interim/#comment-29 Ann Fri, 09 Mar 2007 05:41:31 +0000 http://urbanurbane.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/and-in-the-interim/#comment-29 How are you? I'm have bloating and pressure and difficulty breathing, because of pain in my right side, below my rib cage--but no gall stones, according to a regular ultrasound. They want to do a test to check my gall bladder contractions--but PubMed, Merck and the Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology said the next tests should be an endoscopic ultrasound and then a test to check the gall bladder emptying, which they don't do here, according to my doctor. They sound willing to possibly take out my gallbladder, even with no specific findings of probelms--but I'm afraid. I'm wondering how it turned out for you. How are you? I’m have bloating and pressure and difficulty breathing, because of pain in my right side, below my rib cage–but no gall stones, according to a regular ultrasound. They want to do a test to check my gall bladder contractions–but PubMed, Merck and the Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology said the next tests should be an endoscopic ultrasound and then a test to check the gall bladder emptying, which they don’t do here, according to my doctor. They sound willing to possibly take out my gallbladder, even with no specific findings of probelms–but I’m afraid. I’m wondering how it turned out for you.

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