Gallbladder removal recovery

[Orsyboy2]

Gallbladder removal how long to feel yourself still pain 2 weeks in problems swallowing and drinking and pain breathing deeply lot heartburn also and still got feeling of a stitch round right hand side

[Orsyboy2]

Thank you have read off this

[jimfromcalif]

Healing time depends on how you were opened up. Usually that operation today entails two or three tiny slits which are covered with steri-strips and without stitches.

[Orsyboy2 in reply to jimfromcalif]

Mine was closed wit staples 2 each in small slits and 4 in just under belly button cut

[Forumgd in reply to Orsyboy2]

Hi how are you feeling now? I am 9 wks post op, still nowhere near normal.

[Orsyboy2 in reply to Forumgd]

Worse now than before op and no follow up wish didn’t go ahead with it

[ChoppedAlmonds]

They had me on paracetamol and ibuprofen for the first week after surgery, then I took paracetamol for the second week as I was still a bit unconfortable around my stomach and the operation site. I still have a small pain in my left side, which is what alerted me to a problem initially, but the doctor says it should go. Three weeks after surgery my stomach is still a little swollen, but I'm basically back to normal - walking 10,000 steps per day, gentle stretching and exercising, eating normally, back to golf next Monday. I'll let my wife do the driving for a bit longer!

[Solymar123]

I think I must have been very fortunate and had a terrific surgeon. I was given some codeine to take home with me but didn’t open the box. I had 2 paracetamol evening of the surgery as a precaution and didn’t need anything else after. My scars have healed very well. I have one just under my belly button which took a little longer no discomfort.

Overall it was so easy it’s hard to believe now the excruciating pain I was in prior to the operation.