Gallbladder ladies

SandratheTerrible

Did you get the stones removed or the whole gallbladder?  What was your recovery time?  I have 2 stones that are kicking up.  The doctor is referring me to a general surgeon.  Thanks for any help, advice, input, etc!

Trissie18

I had outpatient laproscropic surgery on a Wednesday to remove the stones and gallbladder, I took Thursday off from work, and went back on Friday.

aclearyusa

I had my gallbladder removed.  It was not a bad recovery at all.  I was off work for 3 days.  It was hartd to get up and down.  After a few days, I felt completely fine. 

jenifairies

i had a scope thing (forgot the name of it) to remove some stones that were stuck. they wanted to remove my gall bladder, but i had a flight home the next day and couldn't change it. (i was on vacation when my gall bladder went bsc - ended up being in the hospital for 3 days of it).

i got the whole thing removed 2 months later (waiting on insurance). i was told no lifting over 15 lbs (including DD) for 3 weeks. at my 1 week checkup he said i could lift her - she was 18 lbs. the worst part was not being able to take care of dd myself. my mom was here all day for the whole 3 weeks and was driving me nuts. i probably could have done it all myself after the first week, but i didn't want that incision busting open or to get an infection and then have recovery take longer.  

the first week was crappy - by the second week, only the belly button incision hurt. third week i was fine unless dd kicked me in the belly button. the higher incisions didn't bother me at all.

ETA: I'm a SAHM. I think I could have gone back to work after a few days as long as I could wear baggy pants that didn't hit at my belly button.