It's good to be alive

[randlemanboater]

Glad you are back on your feet D.

In 2011 I was going to the gym regularly, riding bicycles a couple hundred miles a week, eating semi well, in great shape...but I kept getting sick.

Sinus and ear infections, occasionally just vomiting for no apparent reason, even ended up with pneumonia. This went on for 9 or 10 months.

Eventually I had a gall bladder attack (there is no mistaking when you are having one of those). My gall bladder was so infected that I had to lay in the hospital for 2 days on IV antibiotics before it could be removed.

My surgeon said that I probably had the gall bladder infection the whole time I was having all the other problems. My body was busy fighting it so all the other things were able to get me.

I did NOT have any stones.

A note on post gall bladder removal, at first you really have to watch fat intake, a hot dog or ranch dressing will shoot through your system like a freight train.

All these years later, hot dogs can still give me a little problem if I eat too many of them.

[Destroyer]

Originally Posted by randlemanboater

Glad you are back on your feet D.

In 2011 I was going to the gym regularly, riding bicycles a couple hundred miles a week, eating semi well, in great shape...but I kept getting sick.

Sinus and ear infections, occasionally just vomiting for no apparent reason, even ended up with pneumonia. This went on for 9 or 10 months.

Eventually I had a gall bladder attack (there is no mistaking when you are having one of those). My gall bladder was so infected that I had to lay in the hospital for 2 days on IV antibiotics before it could be removed.

My surgeon said that I probably had the gall bladder infection the whole time I was having all the other problems. My body was busy fighting it so all the other things were able to get me.

I did NOT have any stones.

A note on post gall bladder removal, at first you really have to watch fat intake, a hot dog or ranch dressing will shoot through your system like a freight train.

All these years later, hot dogs can still give me a little problem if I eat too many of them.

Mine was infected also. I was on IV antibiotics for about 20 hours before my operation, and then for the balance of time that I was in the hospital.
It's funny though. I was cautioned by just about everyone that the first several months would be "difficult" with certain foods passing through like a freight train, yet in fact the exact opposite for the first week was the only thing that I experienced. It was more like a slow boat to China. I've had several hot dogs since the operation, as well as a few hamburgers from Mickey D's. In fact, the only thing I have noticed is a weight loss of almost 9 pounds so far. I attribute that to the fact that it seems I cannot eat a "full" meal anymore. It's more like several little meals over the course of a few hours. Weird

[Blue_Runner]

Thanks RB and D, good info on gall bladder issues. I guess I need to get back in to the doc for another look. RB how did they determine it was your gall bladder? Ultra sound, CT scan, both or other?

[randlemanboater]

After a fairly big meal I began hurting so bad that I could not stand up and was vomiting, I went to the ER and the doctor recognized the symptoms. After they gave me morphine, they did an xray expecting to see stones but could only see the infection. The doctor said that normal gall bladders don't show up on an xray so he knew mine was very infected because he could see it.

[Destroyer]

Originally Posted by Blue_Runner

Thanks RB and D, good info on gall bladder issues. I guess I need to get back in to the doc for another look. RB how did they determine it was your gall bladder? Ultra sound, CT scan, both or other?

I know you asked RM, but to add my 2 cents, on me first did an EKG (because of the chest pain) then they did an X-Ray, that gave them the initial diagnosis, then a CT scan and a MRI, as well as another scan that I don't remember the name of. By the time I was ready for surgery they were 100% confident that it was my GB. Oh, and a Ultrasound was mixed in there someplace also.

[Blue_Runner]

Good to know thanks guys!

[charlie_the_tuna]

been off for a while. never had gall stones but I get kidney stones every couple years. if they're anything alike, then MAN!!! doctor just went in and broke up a staghorn stone. I wont tell you how he got in with his camera and his laser and other assorted apparatus, but let's just say peeing was painful for the next few days.
i'm glad you're doing well. we get up around that age and the golden years start with their shenanigans. I also need to get my health back in check. I wanna swing around the country and have a cup of coffee with every dam one of you guys.

[Destroyer]

Good to see you back here Charlie. Still polishing the rails for NYC? Did you ever get that truck you were looking at?

I had a boss that had stones like yours.... I saw the agony he went thru. Glad that yours are not bothering you right now.