Gall Bladder Transplant

[hope4me791]

I have made the biggest mistake of my life. I had my gallbladder removed, which I felt rushed into by the surgeon, because I had polyps (very small). For some stupid reason I listenend to his bad advise and got it removed. I feel TERRIBLE!! I'm experiencing terrible digestion problems, which I never had before. I have taken enzymes, etc. all to no avail. All of this is a result of the gallbladder removal. Is there such a thing as a gall bladder transplant? I can't live like this...I would definitely have it done. I know this may sound drastic to you (but not to me)...live in my shoes for one day and tell me how drastic it really is.

[dmitten62]

I have to unfortunately agree. However my situation is a tad different. I don’t know if I could have kept mine. When I finally got the surgery after months of obstruction jaundice features the surgeon when he went in to take my gallbladder found that my cystic duct was strictured. He took out the gallbladder anyways and then didn’t tell me they had found strictured ducts. I felt in the same desperation though. I was 97lbs by the time I got surgery and I did supplements to try and help balance everything as well as enzymes, but eventually all the deficiencies due to losing my gallbladder started to catch up with me. I don’t know if we made the right decision or if he should have just tried stenting my duct first instead of just going ahead and taking out the gallbladder too, but my life has been a living hell since. I can’t absorb fat at all anymore. I basically look anorexic and I’m a year out from surgery. I’ve had to start doing iron infusions and more to try and make up for what I’m losing by not having a gallbladder. My triglycerides have gone from normal to dangerously low and nothing so far, no matter how many calories or protein I try to pack in, I’m still stuck just hoping I’m going to survive this whole ordeal. I try to get out and not be home bound and get my activity levels up as much as possible but I constantly start to pass out because my body can’t sustain. I’ve been living like this since the surgery. I too, with being so miserable with the suffering physically every day started looking at options of gallbladder transplants.

[yorkiekisses]

I have to say I'm quite upset with some Doctor remarks, stating they don't like posts/blogs like this because we are the MINORITY. That proves what I have always believed, that WE/Patients are nothing more than a NUMBER to them and being the minority (49%) our problems that have occurred after having the surgery (whether it was needed or not) DOESN'T Matter to them, it's not their concern to find a cure. "Just give them another pill and they will go away". For awhile, till the side effects from that pill destroys another organ and then you can have another operation. This is how the Health Care System works in the USA. How do you cure Cancer? YOU STOP EATING FOODS THAT CONTAIN INGREDIENTS THAT CAUSE CANCER!

[Ekaterina_Teresa]

Four years after cholecystectomy I'm now permanently on morphine and still in pain! Can't even continue with a part-time job! Total misery! Had stones twice in the remaining duct and now have been referred to a Liver Unit! God only knows how long that will take as had to wait two years to get in to the Pain Clinic (only to be given Gabapentin after no consultation or examination at all)
If I were a dog, they would've put me down years ago!
So, I'm not giving you a hope or advice at all!
I've found out that screaming and crying might get you some more tests!
All the best,
Take care,
Ekaterina

[LordLawScience]

Seek a medical attorney if you feel that the remedy suggested was done by force without time to consider the proper treatment. Their has been records of transplant of the gallbladder, having a medical degree in practice does not solvent the specialized field of surgery. Quite truthfully an organ work with a organ system to perform a function removing a function decrease efficiency.

[cherrieg307]

ur talking crap.they perform soooo many of these operations and how many of them r 4 saving lives?im sure only a very small percentage is in order to save a life&most of them r just destroying lives...as bile reflux-which is common after gallbladder removal can cause stomach cancer, esophageal cancer, pancreatic cancer and throat cancer and more.so **** that

[havahskipp]

I would think with all the new transplants like heart and lungs by now something  so simple that doctors don't think is so important to the human body we should have a new method . This would help people and save money.