I was a patient for an emergency gall bladder removal that went drastically wrong. I had been promised I would be home the same day but 9 days later was still lay on the ward in that much agony I contemplated suicide, with litres of bile draining out of me daily. Eventually they put the camera down and realised their mistake. They had removed my bile duct in its entirety.
I was quickly moved to a liver specialist hospital and given "pioneering surgery". The pioneering part they now deny despite referring to it as such throughout my stay. My bowel is now used as a makeshift bile duct but the side effects I suffer are horrendous.
I question if anyone with similar surgery suffers the same. Chronic exhaustion and a split between chronic diahorrea and constipation which is directly related to how much I eat. I eat little, I suffer with diahorrea, eat too much the opposite. I presume this is down to the fact I just have a constant drip of bile now so either not enough or too much.
I also suffer with horrendous noises from my inside, gurgling and glugging, and horrible cramps across my body. 4 years later I still have limited feeling by the scar and a tightness in exercise.
I am taking legal action which is slow as is the case in UK. The specialist now does his best to avoid me and obviously has orders from above to admit nothing as although he was the repair man not the negligent surgeon, he has backpeddled on everything and insists all my symptoms are IBS!
In addition I immediately developed Barret's oesphogus after the ops and struggle with heartburn daily. They deny it is linked but at 33 yrs old is very unusual and there was no issue before the ops. Anyone had similar?
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