Gallbladder post op complaints

[Bobbi339]

I had a routine (?) lap gall bladder removal on March 12, 2003.  Five days later I was readmitted to the hospital with considerable pain and jaundice. Tests showed that a surgical clip was blocking the common bile duct.  Surgery was performed to correct this by choledocojejunostomy (sp?).
I am now six weeks post op and have noted the following problems:
1) clay colored stools
2) pain under right shoulder blade after eating
3) nausea after eating
4) intense pain under right side rib cage upon deep breath or yawning.
Do you have any comments or suggestions?

[angelgal]

I had my f/u appt last week.  I was told to "wait out" the nausea another couple weeks and see if I can find a pattern.  I already have one...every time I eat, I feel sick!  To add insult to injury, while on vacation last weekend, my upper incision broke open.  I was seen today and had one of the internal sutures coming out.  That is what broke the incision and now I have an infection to go with it.  Still no answer on the nausea or the pain.

[bets1101]

My friend had Gallbladder out by LAP on May 14...she is nauseated most of the time and has diarrhea shortly after eating...every time she eats. Her surgeon said that this should let up in 3 to 4 weeks...we are now getting close to the 4th week and it goes on...my concern is that the stools are "clay colored" I am wondering if this is normal..she has no fever or juandice...just the nausea and clay colored diarrhea soon after she eats...she does not see her Dr for a week..should she wait or is there something to be concerned about?

[Sheillah]

I had my gallbladder taken out on May 15, 2003.  After a few days I started feeling great.  When the second week started, I felt awlful.  I had (& still have) serious pain in the same spot my gallbladder was.  I have been running a low fever on and off.  I have chills and then feel like I'm burning up.  My skin is a pasty white color and I am soooooo exhausted.  I also have diaherea (sp?) all the time.  I am eating OK, but losing weight.
I had a blood test yesterday and my liver values are up and my RBC count is down.  Is this normal?
I have an  doctor's appointment this afternoon.

[angelgal]

I posted a similar response above but thought someone might see this here too.  I had a lap chole May 22, 2003. At first things seemed to be moving along fine, but the past few days, I am having almost constant pain, nausea, and discomfort. Anything I eat makes me feel sick. I also have Celiac Disease but do not think this would have any effect on the outcome of my surgery. Does anyone have any ideas on what might cause these after-effects or has anyone had a similar experience? I do have my two-week post-op appt Thursday.

[imurhucklbery]

i am slightly unusual in my complications from surgery greatly differ from those posted. hopefully somone might have some compassion or insight as to what the causes of my post op gb surgery could be and possibliy ideas on treatment.
i am quickly approaching my wits end. i am a 28 year old male with no family history of gallbladder disease, however abdominal cancer as well as many other cancers are prevalant in my family history.
my problems started 3 months ago, nauseau, vomiting blood and stomach acid, total food intolerance, and severe pain increasing as time went on, right upper quadrant, right shoulder, fever for over two months. after being turned away by almost every ER Dr, finally Dr byrd had the compassion and insight to further investigate my symptoms. after x-rays, unltrasounds, and lab work, he informed me that i would not leave the hospital, and would be admitted immediately. he scheduled me for surgery the following day, as it was considered life threatening in nature.
the surgery took almost 2 and 1/2 hrs, afterwards i remained in the hospital for 3 days. my gallbladder was the size of a orange, and contained 3 extremely large stones sizes of quarters, along it many smaller stones, and was highly infected.
i recived cipro 2 times a day as i was running a high fever, upon discharge, my fever still remained 101.7  my surgery was 7 weeks ago, i still have a high fever on a daily basis, altho i have modified my diet and lifestyle, in an attempt to cope with these complications... so far all remain unsuccessful. for almost 4 weeks i have been removed off my pain meds and am still in dire pain. i am so exhausted from the non-stop fever and pain it is hard to imagine continuing like this. i can only eat about
once every three days, and then i have severe nauseau, and vomiting, followed by two plus days of greenish/yellowish stool, stagnat, containing no fecal matter what so ever. it has to be stomach acid/bile and it burns my rectum raw. this also is excrutiatingly painful. i take reglan for nauseau, and prevacid to attempt to control the amount of stomach acid/bile i am producing... both approaches remain unsuccessful in curing my ailments. what could be causing these painful complications, vomiting, rectal discharges, massive headaches, and the presistant pains in my right quadrant, and back/ shoulder pain...
they all but keep me incapacitated, curled into a fetal position for 6-8 hrs a day.  
what can i do?  what could it be?  help please...
i fear i am loosing my mind at times.

[imurhucklbery]

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