Hey everyone, I’ve been suffering for months with health problems and all my tests came back fine. I’ve had constant nausea, fatigue, rashes and pain and it’s been a real problem. I had an ultrasound and they told me I have gallbladder polyps and I’ve been scheduled in to speak to a specialist in April (then hopefully get my gallbladder removed!)
The symptoms I have are nausea shortly after eating, fatigue and lack of appetite. Has anyone else been diagnosed with gallbladder polyps? What have your experiences been?
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I had a gallbladder polyp found on my 6 monthly cirrhosis scan ultra sound. It was a concern. They seemed adamant!
Turns out to be a very small stone. Not sure what’s worse tbh?
I would get a second scan, I believe if a polyp they purely monitor with regular scans to ensure it doesn’t grow. If so again I believe gallbladder removal is the main course of action.
Hey Rhodes, thanks for your reply! It’s so comforting to know you’ve had the same symptoms as me, I feel like a lot of other people’s experiences are more just bloating/diarrhea, so not found people that can relate to the nausea side.
I’m seeing a specialist in April so they can look into the size of it etc, at the moment they only have detection of it via the ultrasound, not the size. I’m hoping once I’ve seen them I’ll be booked in for surgery because it’s really affecting my everyday life!
I have 3 small gallbladder polyps. I occasionally get a niggling ache on the right side of my abdomen, under my rib but no other symptoms. I have had them 3 years, they are monitored yearly by ultrasound. Was told on first review that they had grown but then on next review that the person who recorded the details measured them incorrectly and they hadn't grown after all. My liver was found to be fatty while they were looking at the gallbladder and have been losing a bit of weight, upped the exercise and lowered the alcohol so hoping that on the next scan liver will be looking a bit brighter and polyps will have stayed the same. Sorry to hear yours are giving you problems.
A few years ago I had some X-rays as I had pneumonia. On them, quite obvious, were two bright circles. An 8 mm gall stone and a 2 mm kidney stone. When I saw my mother, I mentioned this to her, as she had her gall bladder removed about 40 years before (I am not sure why, but I think gall stones),
At the time I remembered the doctors had said that it would all be fine and would not make any difference. I said this to her. She said quite vehemently, "It does, what would they know, they still have theirs."
It made me think that I wanted to keep my gall bladder if at all possible. Maybe you should not be so keen to have yours removed.
Hey River, thanks for your reply - I know a lot of people have different experiences with removal and I know it affects your diet etc, but i’ll be the 12th person in my family to have mine removed and if not now, itll slap me in the face with a trip to emergency A&E to get it removed. I think as its hereditary and the symptoms and recovery have been pretty consistent throughout my family, I’m not too worried about the after effects. The thing thats causing me more problems are the constant side effects im having now because of the inflammation!
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