Guest guest Posted June 30, 2003 Report Share Posted June 30, 2003 You will mostly likely not notice any difference after your gall bladder is gone. All the gb actually does is to store bile (made by the liver) to deliver to the stomach when you eat a big fatty meal. Since we never will eat a big meal again, the liver can provide enough bile to the old stomach directly when you eat. My surgeon removes all gall bladders that are evenly remotely suspicious when he does RNYs (22 years of bariatric experience). He says that he finds that even with Acti-Gall, 80% of the gall bladders NOT removed during gastric bypass are removed within the first year post-op, typically on an emergency basis. A nice, profitable second surgery for those surgeons who are at all unethical, IMO. Ziobro Open RNY 09/17/01 310/130 Http://tinyurl.com/4e3h Some mornings it doesn't pay to chew through the straps. GB Removal After WLS Hello Everyone, Got a question for those who had their gall bladder removed after wls. I had wls 04/2002 and had my gall bladder removed in 06/2003. I was having some problems with vomitting and this is how it was discovered that my gall bladder was not working. Now with the exception of not vomitting (yeah) I have not really noticed any difference since the gb is gone. My question is should there be any big differences since the gall bladder is gone? thanks (usually just lurking in lurkdome) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 30, 2003 Report Share Posted June 30, 2003 Z wrote: << gall bladders NOT removed during gastric bypass are removed within the first year post-op, typically on an emergency basis. A nice, profitable second surgery for those surgeons who are at all unethical, IMO. >> This is a very unfair statement. All surgeons who do not routinely remove the gall bladder during WLS are not unethical. Many are forbidden to remove a healthy organ by their insurance carriers. To me, it would seem that removing a healthy organ and then billing insurance for it is unethical. There are lots of " for instances " along those lines. Years ago pouches weren't transected. Today, most WLS surgeons transect the pouch because they've learned from experience that there's a huge probability that the staple line will disrupt if it's not transected, but are the ones who don't transect unethcial, even though they know that they'll very likely be seeing the patients again when their staple line disrupts? That would seem like the same situation you described earlier - they're doing something that they know will bring in a little extra cash flow later on. If the gall bladder is unhealthy, then it should be removed, and it is true that many people with healthy GBs at the time of WLS will end up back in surgery to have the GB removed later on. It would make sense that it would be removed along with WLS for that reason, but if the insurance carriers (ours and the docs) won't allow it, then it can't/shouldn't be done. I asked the surgeon who did my original WLS about removing my appendix with my WLS (my GB was gone long ago) and he explained about what I just wrote. In a strange coincidence, I ended up having an emergency appendectomy 9 months later, but that doesn't mean it's his fault for not removing it when I asked him to because it was healthy when I had WLS. JMO of course. Terry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 30, 2003 Report Share Posted June 30, 2003 In a message dated 6/30/2003 11:47:02 PM Eastern Standard Time, joanenglund@... writes: > ....oh > how I miss my milk in my cereal and ice cream!!!!!!!!! YIKES..Joan > This is how I always described food. My popcorn, my pretzels etc. I heard a discussion on TV about this. " Normal " people do not say " my. " They say " I miss milk on the cereal I eat. " We MO possess our food, they just eat their food. But, now I try not to say it that way, but I still think that way. Like, get away from " my " popcorn. Fay Bayuk **300/168 10/23/01 Dr. Open RNY 150 cm Click for My Profile <A HREF= " http://obesityhelp.com/morbidobesity/profile.phtml?N=Bayuk951061008 " >http:\ //obesityhelp.com/morbidobesity/profile.phtml?N=Bayuk951061008</A> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 1, 2003 Report Share Posted July 1, 2003 I donated at 23. Can follow childbirth, too. I could not tolerate LOTS of things right after. No fresh veggies, no bacon, no milk I could eventually, but not for awhile Thanks, Vitalady, Inc. T www.vitalady.com If you are interested in PayPal, please click here: https://www.paypal.com/affil/pal=orders%40vitalady.com GB Removal After WLS > > Hello Everyone, > Got a question for those who had their gall bladder removed after wls. > I had wls 04/2002 and had my gall bladder removed in 06/2003. > I was having some problems with vomitting and this is how it was > discovered that my gall bladder was not working. Now with the exception > of not vomitting (yeah) I have not really noticed any difference since > the gb is gone. > My question is should there be any big differences since the gall > bladder is gone? > > thanks > > (usually just lurking in lurkdome) > > Homepage: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Graduate-OSSG > > Unsubscribe: mailto:Graduate-OSSG-unsubscribe > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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