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Hi All,

My name is Sophie, i am 41, from Australia. I don't know if i am in

the right group or not! Here's my story ..... I have triple disc

disease in my lumbar spine which i take Oxycodone for, 8 a day. I

also have a lazy bowel. Early in 03 i started to get gallbladder

symptoms ...... URQ pain that radiated to my right upper shoulder

blade area, with indigestion/burning off and on. In the end i

couldn't eat hardly anything and lost 13 kilos in weight. After

dismissing my symptoms for ages, the doc finally ran a blood test

and said " your gallbladder has to come out " That happened in Jan

04, and it was done via a lap.

When i woke from the surgery i felt so good ..... so well, that the

doctors were surprised telling me that my op was " difficult " , and

that my gallbladder was ' prune like ' and covered in adhesions,

which they said was evidence to them that i had indeed been

suffering from severe gallbladder attacks. Well derrrr! I'd been

telling them that for ages! Anyway ..... i felt so good, i demanded

to go home. This was a bit of an issue with them,( they called the

head honcho ) but i finally won out and went home.

My feeling ' good ' didn't last long! My first post op appointment,

i was complaining of a dull pulling sensation where my gallbladder

had been, and severe ' burning ' which seemed to come right out of

my mouth!I continued to complain about these symptoms for the next 5

or so appointments and was dismissed everytime, except once where

the doc said it could be a hernia but that they wont be doing

anything about that.

Another diagnosis has been ' non ulcerative dyspepsia '. I have

been, am on ..... every anti acid known to man, yet none of them

seem to help the ' burning ' symptoms?

My symptoms now are similar to gallbladder attack symptoms but

different ..... my main concern now is this severe burning which i

am now having all day, everyday, along with nausea. ( i have

suffered with nausea for a few years now because of the Oxycodone )

With the URQ pain, it's different to before, it's now a dull

pain/pulling sensation that i get, whereas before it was definitely

pain. It also does not radiate to my upper back like it did before.I

still hardly eat anything because if i do eat, i get a full feeling

that makes me near vomit.

I have been reading a little over the internet, and seem to think

this may be a sphincter of oddi dysfunction problem? What do you all

think? Have any of you experienced what happened to me after having

your gallbladder removed? What tests should i ask my GI to run?

Sorry for the long post!

Sophie. )