gall stones club
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Topic: gall stones club
Posted By: Bizzy
Subject: gall stones club
Date Posted: 16 May 2007 at 10:52pm
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So who else on here is a member of the gall stones club? i think there is quite a few of us on here as i hear it mentioned quite often.
I had gall stones when i was younger, wayyyy before kids. was lucky that i had medical insurance at the time so got it done at southern cross hospital. so quick and easy. they gave me my stones to take home in a jar and i was so zonked and i thought i had dreamt it...  until i opened the drawer in the bedside table at the hospital... 
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Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 16 May 2007 at 11:16pm
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LOL oh that cracks me up!!! Nah I can say Im a member of that club (touch wood) I have seen the pain it causes thou from working and I have to say it looks horrific!!!!! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
Busy mum to Miss 15yrs, Miss 10yrs and Master 4yrs |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 16 May 2007 at 11:17pm
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being in labour was easier.
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Posted By: kezplanet
Date Posted: 16 May 2007 at 11:57pm
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I found out I had a gall stone just as I found out I was pregnant with Anastasia. When I was 8 weeks preg the stone & her were the same size (checked it on the ultrasound) havn't had any problems since then so havn't done anything about it, dr said to wait to see if it bothers me again. ------------- Kerryn, Mum to Ashlyn(29/3/04), Anastasia(1/11/05) & Abigail (24/02/09) |
Posted By: Kazzle
Date Posted: 17 May 2007 at 7:11am
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i developed gallstones while i was pregnant....and apparently i had the worst type...sandlike grains...and apparently they are the worst cos they are so small they get everywhere and rub and scratch.
i had a couple of major attacks will pregnant and i will take labour any day believe you me. although i have to say the pain of the attacks helped with me with my labour pains. i had my gallbladder out when rhiannon was 6wks old...in hospital on the friday arvo...up and about that night...home saturday morning and back to normal by the monday. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: SMoody
Date Posted: 17 May 2007 at 9:19am
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Had gallstone attacks 2 weeks after birth. I first thought it was normal uterus contractions and it will get better. Did for a bit until I hit 3 months after birth. Started get ting worse and worse until one night that I was hitting my head against the wall to feel a different pain.
Hubby took me to the dr right there and then and they immediatly expected gallstones. Scan done and they told me I can speak to a surgeon next week. But 2 days later I landed up in emergency and this dr gave the scans one look and told me he is calling a surgeon right now. They wanted to take my gallbladder out that night but as I was vomiting and they didnt know when last I ate they did me first thing in the morning. That dr in emergency literally saved my life. As much as I love my daughter I dont think I would have had another child if that is what labour felt like and I had to give birth naturally. Call me a wuzz.  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: ginger
Date Posted: 17 May 2007 at 9:37am
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My mum reckons that having babies is a walk in the park compared to gall stones gandt. I remember when she first had an attack when I was a lot younger, and she was rocking on the floor dishing out instructions to my dad on how to look after us because she thought she was dying Scared the jeebers out of us kids!! I've never seen anyone in so much pain since!
Kidney stones are apparently quite interesting too ... ------------- Cuinn Lachlan 23.1.09 - 22:00 Antonia Helene 4.8.11 - 09:41 |
Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 17 May 2007 at 9:54am
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yep I have to agree, pushing a bubba out your va jay jay is WAAAAAAAAAAAY less painful than gallstones. I also have the small sand like stones, so am getting my gall bladder taken out. I see the specialist in 2 weeks, and haven't had an attack for - touch wood - two weeks now. The second bad attack I had was when Char was 2 weeks old and I honestly thought I was having a heart attack, and I couldn't breathe. I was in the bedroom, kicking the wall so Rod could come down, I was in so much pain, I couldn't walk or yell, and I whispered ring an ambulance, I'm having a heart attack (I didn't know I had gallstones at that stage. We just live 5 mins from hospital, so it was faster for him to take me than ring an amby. It was horrific, and hooked up to ecg's etc. I felt reeeeeaaaalll dumb when the DR asked me what I had eated and I said "roast pork"... worst thing, apparently...
The first attack I had was when I was 22 wks preg and went to southland hospital (I was in invercargill on hols) and they just said it was the baby, no scan, nothing. Made me feel like a dick PLUS the assumed I was a solo mum, and were rude about it... they didn't clock the huge dia I wear on my engagement finger!!! (they actaully said is the father still onthe scene!!!!!!!) ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: Lisha
Date Posted: 17 May 2007 at 11:14am
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Yes, I had some really bad attacks about 5 years ago, then had my gall bladder removed, I was 25 then, there are alot of foods that I can't eat as I get bad bile! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: lottieandharry
Date Posted: 17 May 2007 at 11:17am
| Hi there. I am new to this site. I think there is a possibility that I have gall stones too. I started having 'attacks' about 3 months after my daughter was born ( she is 14 months now). I have been putting up with it but the last attack scared the beejeezes out of me. My husband was away, daughter in bed and here i am lying on the bathroom floor wondering if I should call an ambulance beacause if I died there was no one else home!!!! Anyway I went to the doctor the next day and have a scan booked for next week, only problem now is I have just found out I am pregnant!! My question is for those of you who had it while pregnant, how did you cope obviously now they can't operate. I have been sticking to a low fat diet (which for me is quite difficuilt!!!) I am scared that an attack like that may harm the baby or bring on labour or something?? Any advice would be much appreciated.( sorry for the long post!!) |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 17 May 2007 at 11:27am
thats funny that - i was told by my doc that i could eat anything now... |
Lisha wrote:Posted By: SMoody
Date Posted: 17 May 2007 at 12:41pm
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I was told that certain stuff will cause me to have more bile in my tummy and therefore get heartburn ect. Definately get it if I eat anything too fatty. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 17 May 2007 at 1:17pm
i eat a lot of fatty food (as evidenced by my size ) and never have any problems. i can even eat pizza which was the food that set my attacks off most.
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Posted By: emeldee
Date Posted: 17 May 2007 at 2:18pm
I'm a fourth generation member  except Mum didn't bother mentioning it until I was in hospital doped up to the eyeballs after my first attack (age 17). It was the night after I'd had a full-on nachos and beer night with some friends and had tried my first cigarette... I thought it was the smoking and that somehow I'd been struck down for it. In any case, gallbladder and offending stones were removed 6 months later, 4 days before my 18th birthday. ------------- |
Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 17 May 2007 at 9:15pm
I got some stuff called buscopan from the Dr, is you feel you are going ot have an attack, take some, and some panadol, and it "lessens it" a bit. You just have to be careful what you eat, although today I ate LETTUCE, yes, friken LETTUCE and had a godawful attatck at 5.30pm (after skiting that Ihadn't had an attack for 2 weeks) I started gettign mine while I was pregnant and no one knew what the problem was, so I just had to suffer, till I had the attack shortly after C was born that put me in hospital. Good luck! ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: lottieandharry
Date Posted: 18 May 2007 at 1:20pm
| Thanks heaps fattartsrock! Will talk to the doctor when I go back. Anything that will help reduce the pain a wee bit is worth finding out about! Appreciate the advice, thanks. |
Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 18 May 2007 at 7:05pm
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Aaaaaaand I had another attack at 4am this morning (incidently, when Jake decided to get up for the day..) It was sooo bad that Ihad to get mum to take me to he hospital at 6am I was in such agony. So three shots of morphine later I had some relief came home round 11am (thank god it's creche day for Jake today) And charlie slept all day thanks to morphine milk... ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: pepsi
Date Posted: 18 May 2007 at 7:08pm
| I apparently had an attack years ago, before I was preggers and yeah it sucked... Apparently they dissolved or something before I got to see them though so lucky for me no surgery.. They just left a bit of a scar trail through my kidneys and other organs which picked up in the ultrasound at the time. |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 18 May 2007 at 7:20pm
| pepsi it may have been kidney stones, as far as i know gall stones dont disappear and if they move you are in real trouble... |
Posted By: pepsi
Date Posted: 18 May 2007 at 7:30pm
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Oh kidney stones Is that the kind that you pee out?
When I think back, it was extremely painful and I was rushed to A & E cause I turned yellow and was in so much pain so they gave me sweet sweet drugs (can't remember the name now)... The next day I felt 100% better and had an ultrasound which is where they told me what they thought it was, but in fact I never went back to the doctor to discuss further.... I was just glad to not have to pee out a rock! |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 18 May 2007 at 7:31pm
sure is....
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Posted By: emeldee
Date Posted: 18 May 2007 at 9:16pm
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I have one of those too I ended up passing one while I was pregnant with Andrew....so kidney stones on panadol....not nice. Darn pregnancy ------------- |
Posted By: Rackhell
Date Posted: 20 May 2007 at 6:38pm
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Gotta love pethidine...
10 years ago, i had (what i now know to be) gall stones. I biked (poor student!) to my local A & E and they diagnosed me as having hepititis C! hmm. Two days later I was in hospital, having turned bright yellow after having an attack, a couple of days later I was in southern cross hospital (mum and dad admitting that i did indeed have private health insurance and that they were going to 'surprise' me with it at my birthday - odd people) where they performed keyhole surgery to remove my gallbladder. A nick under my boobs, a nick to the right of my belly button and the last nick in my belly button. One gallstone was still going down the tract, and well it was more painful than all the rest because i thought they had 'got' all of them and they gave me pethidine. I bring that particular memory to the fore when I most need cheering up - it made me seriously happy and drowsy...bliss. |
Posted By: AndysMummy
Date Posted: 20 May 2007 at 10:38pm
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I agree that Gall Stones are worse than labour. I ended up in A&E about 4 times. ahhhhh morphine... mmmmm
Ended up having my gall blader out 4 days after coming home from our Honeymoon. Sucky!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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