Gall Bladder Surgery - Portland,OR

I had mine out a couple of years ago. Mine was functioning at 8% and took a long time to diagnose.

Surgery was outpatient and ate light for a couple days and just took it easy for about 5 days. She'll be limited on lifting as pain allows.

Get her some new magazines, books or movies and let her veg out.

Also, walks are good post-surgery to help get all the air out they pump into you (think its so they can get a good look at your organs).

Good luck!

I had mine ____@____.com years old laproscopically (sorry for the misspelling) a year ago. I have minimal scars from it and my recovery went well. I was able to lift my 40lb 5 year old a little over a week after it was done. A year later I'm still figuring out what my body can or cannot handle. I hope her surgery and recovery go very well.

I had mine out about 10 years ago. Both my parents as well. Mine was emergency surgery but they were able to do it through the belly button. I rested over the weekend and was back at school that Monday. I wasn't able to drive for 2 weeks which was a big pain in the butt!

Salads are rough sometimes. I try not to eat alot of lettuce. I find foods that were fried or fatty a problem as well. My dad has NO issues with food.

All aside, I felt TONS better!!!

Myself, my MIL, my two sisters, 1 cousin ...

Surgery was done as outpatient. Rested with few stairs for a few days. They had us on clear liquids for the first day, then zero to low fat foods. Your body has to adjust to both recovering from surgery as well as learning how to process fat now that the gall bladder is gone. If her gall bladder has been functioning so poorly, she may actually rebound faster than others.

There will be some foods that she won't be able to eat anymore. Some that she can eat, just be close to a bathroom, and others she'll have no problem with. For me, one trigger food is lettuce. If I eat a little I'm fine. If I eat a salad I am sick. For my sister it's red meat. For my MIL is sausage.

She'll just have to learn what her trigger foods are and avoid them.

i had mine out the day after thanksgiving last year (2011) because it was chronically inflamed. it was a piece of cake. i checked into outpatient surgery at 10 am and was walking out at 2 pm. stopped at the mcdonalds drivethrough to get a shake because my throat was very scratchy from the breathing tube (inserted and removed all while i was under). the throat was the worst part of it. oh, and they did give me vicodin for any pain but it only caused me to itch, so i took a couple tylenol and that was more than adequate. that very evening, i accompanied the family out to dinner but i stuck to the salad bar. i took it fairly easy saturday and sunday and was back to work FT (desk job) Monday morning. the incisions - 3 of them - took about 2 weeks to heal up. took me about 6 weeks before i could do a sit up or push up, but walking or running on the treadmill were no problem after the first week. it's been 7 months now and were it not for the small scars, i would have forgotten i had it out. no foods i cannot tolerate. i was not in good physical condition prior to the surgery, so i can't say that attributed to how well it went.

Think she will be pleasantly surprised at how well it will go and how fast she will recover. Good luck.

My mother had her gall bladder out when she was in her 70's and my daughter when she was in her late 20's. My mother was in bed for a week or two after the surgery. My daughter was back to work within a couple of days. Both were same day surgery.

Both could eat whatever they wanted once they were fully recovered (a month or so). My thought is that the body makes adjustments for the lack of a gall bladder.

A friend did have difficulty with diarrhea for several months after but my mother and daughter didn't.

She'll be great! I will pray for a quick recovery for her-and if you are her caregiver-I will pray that she is a good patient!

My recovery was not easy, but I think that is most likely because it was not laparoscopic and I was pregnant. I'm glad I had it done. I could not have continued being sick like that. A couple years after the surgery I had to start taking prescription acid reflux meds, though. There are a few spots on my skin where the nerves are mixed up a little, but nothing too bad.