My husband had gall bladder surgery which lasted, like 4.5 hrs., due to 100's of gallstones falling into his body while gall bladder was being removed. Strange that these didn't show up on xray. Anyway, they spilled around, takinig the dr. many hrs. of picking them out of his system. Yes, this was done laparoscopically. The situation was enhanced due to pancreatitis as well...excuse my spelling and typing errors please. :} They had to get the pancreatitis under control prior to the operation.
He has nerve pain like crazy all over. We have been in and out of drs. offices time and time again trying to figure this out. He has been so uncomfortable. He had weight loss of 40 lbs., depression, and over all nerve tingling.
So, we are still searching for answers.
Anyone else having same situation?
Yes! I too have this pain. I got my gallbladder removed in May 2012 and the same thing is going on ever since the surgery. There have been times where there hasn't been anything for a couple weeks and then it just comes right back so I have no idea if it's my diet or something I'm doing or not doing. But I have the same problems: I cannot stretch, I cannot breathe without it feeling like a stab wound Around my ribs and also up on my right shoulder in the front. My life has also been slowed down. I am only 30 and I am a budding actress and singer and I can't do certain things for my career that I would like to because I'm just too much pain. Just today my family wanted to go visit a museum and I couldn't even partake Because the pain is beyond distracting. I am very sad. Please get in touch with me. If you have stumbled upon anything that can help or if you just want support. I also think that this might be nerve pain from the laparoscopic surgery. I'm currently researching a Dr. Lee Dellon from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore on the subject.
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Are you still doing better after seeing this therapist? I think I may follow this route.
Hello Ruby, yes I have had exactly the same pain problem after surgery it has been hell!
How are you doing now? I do hope you have been able to relieve this insidious pain. I take DHC codeine it is the only drug that takes the pain away and I am able to live semi-normal life again so there is hope. I do however suffer side effects of lethargy daily due to the codeine but can only say that it has saved my life as the pain previously was unbearable.
Donna
my mother has had this since gall bladder removal in august 2013, she is bed ridden and has lost 5 stones. the doctors are no help what soever and cannot treat it at all. every pain killer tried has no effect whatsoever. it is a nightmare for the whole family
I am three weeks out of surgery,and I being having chronic pain everyday since I had my surgery. How do you handle this pain while you work, because I really need to go back to work. I go back to the doctor on Wednesday so they can try nerve medication. Do you know if I can work nerve medication. This pain is sooooooooooooooo depressing.
My gallbladder was removed in 1996 and I have had nothing but pain ever since them. I had 6 gallstones with 2 that had fused together. I don;t know where ther was room for them to be there was so many and they were so large!! I have had nothing but problems ever since my gallbladder was taken out. Terrible pain and disconfort. Intestional issues and diarrrhea is with me all the time. The pain never goes away. I know there is other damage but nnot sure where the damage is coming from. The colonscopy each time has diagnosed me with microscopic colitis which is worse than having gallbladder attacks because I am in constant pain, afraid to eat when I am so hungry, constant intestional pain, constant stomach pain. Finaly I had back surgery after my bladder totally prolapsed due to all the diarrhea and now that is also adding to the misery. I completely think that laproscopic surgeries are definitely not the way to go to have anyone'[s gallbaldder taken out. There has been for me and others too much pain afterward. Something about the laproscopic surgery leaves damage. I amm a living example It has been 18 years and the problem has becoe worse the older I get. It just never goes away. If I had it to do over would neer have had laproscopic gallbladder surgery but gone the old route and had them cup me open to take out my gallbladder. Everyone who has their gallbladder out the old fashioned way seems to fare better afterward. I hate to burst your bubble for everyone I read about here but thingns just wil not get better. I felt worse after the surgery than before. Felt as though, as 18 years afterward, like I had a low grade fever. That is when the diarrhea started and it has never stopped sincne then. I definitely think something was damaged during my surgery but back then thought only that I needed more time to heal. Over the years it has just continuallly gotten worse. Like something else may have caused the gallbladder issue? Who knows!!! Pease know that you are not alone. It has been 18 years for me and things just get worse since surgery. At least before surgery I could eat and not have diarrhea but not any longer. I live this way every sinngle day of my life and it is a horrible way to live. You all are not alone. Please know there are others out there who are feeling as bad as you. My prayers are with you all, Just know that I definitely think that unless and even if, a doctor is good, the laproscopic way of removing one's gallbladder leaves way too much room for error. Tell everyone not to have their gallbladder out with laproscopic but the old fashioned way. Damage is definitely done and is does not go away. Nothing else to do except stay on painn pills. The way I look at something is that I don't care what the name of the medicine is or what it is, if it works then take it. No person in our country shold be hurting needlessly no matter what it takes. Anyone's gallbladder laproscopically removed causes permanent damage somewhere in your body. Nothing else to be said. Oh by the way it was AFTER my gallbladder was removed in the two years after, was when the doctors decided to diagnose me with Celiac Disease. I surely did not have it before the gallbladder surgery because before the surgery I could eat anything and never had diarrhea so I find that diagnosis very hard to believe and going gluten free has still not cured the pain or the diarrhea.
im now suffering after my gall bladder was removed in december
today my dr has prescribed lyrica which im gonna give a try..i see my consultant again in december..ive had test and mri but found nothing yet..ive gained weight but my ability to work is getting harder and harder,after i stand or walk i have to have a lie down,i get loads of muzzy headaches but pian constantly in the upper right side of my body and pain in gall bladder region all the time
Have you ever heard of anyone that does this in USA, I am in Florida?
Did the Neurologist help with Nerve conduction??