Gall bladder removel 9/11/08 - sudden pain today

[Carol139]

Hi, recovery was going well - no pain killers needed since Friday morning at 6AM -  since then took some motrin only here and there for the soreness.   Today my right rib area hurts. A lot.  Hurts to breathe. Hurts to cough. Can't even pick up a cup of soup.  
Normal progression of healing?    
Oh, it was laproscopic - 4 incisions total.  He fixed a small umbilical hernia while in there as well as took out some adhesions around my bladder (previous surgery).    

I did maybe do too much yesterday, made homemade soup- but was only vegetable soup, had to cut the veggies myself.  Other than that, nothing unusual.  

Thank you for any help!

Carol

[Carol139]

Thank you, I was wondering if it was something I did, but that could be.  The reason I needed the dumb thing out was due to the stones moving into ducts -  
They were the smaller type that started to go forward into ducts due to me starting a diet.   Strange, trying to do the right thing for my body - and it attacks me.

I'll tell the nurse now, the motrin didn't help at all.

Carol

[Bjarnehaus]

Did your doctor tell you that you can still have stones in the bile duct after a gallbladder removal?  I had mine out in 2000, about 9 months later I started having attacks again that were exactly like a gallbladder attack.  They scheduled me for the ERCP and found a stone in the duct, which was taken care of.  Talk to your doctor about having an MRCP done, to check for a stone in the duct now.
         Pia