Re: GALLBLADDER QUESTION correction

[Guest guest]

" Why are you so emotionally attached to the silly little

thing anyhow? It's not good for much, after all... "

The Gall Bladder **does** perform a function that you lose when its

removed. It serves as a resevoir for bile from the liver and helps

disperse it as needed... Yes, you can live without it, but it does

preform a function in digestion. Without it, the liver just dumps the

bile into the intestine.

Any Dr worth his salt will warn a patient that your digestion is apt

to alter once your GB is removed, many dont bother. Some patients

have bile/diarrhea after a fatty meal once the GB is removed (similar

symptoms to dumping syndrome) ... with others there is not much of a

change. So to say it is not good for much isnt actually accurate in

some patients.

A case can be made for the appendix being taken out - that it isnt

much good... or better, they havent figured out a reason for its

usefulness...

Removing both does help rule out the post op possiblity of pain

coming from those organs area... although I am not totally convinced

that THAT enough reason to remove a healthy GB. Mind you, many GBs

that are removed during WLS arent healthy and the incidence of GB

problems is very high after rapid weight loss. But as was stated

alrady... there is a treatment that can help prevent GB problems...

Actigal.

my two cents

mary bmi 68

corona,ca

pre op 6/27/01 dr rabkin

cigna ppo