Gallbladder polyp anyone have any insight? (First post - sorry for ramble)

[Rusty73]

Anyone had one and any advice? I’ve been seeing doc about water infections and constipation and I’ve been treated for ibs but after consistent water infections with no infection showing in water sample I had an ultrasound scan. They said the results would be back in a week so I left it for the surgery to call me back as they are usually never there when I call. Two weeks later I’d heard nothing so I called, the receptionist said the note on my file was “done and dealt with referred back to hospital for further test”. I was a bit shocked and she told me to call the hospital. The hospital then said that she couldn’t tell me anything except the appointment was on hold until May 2018, but that I should ring back the surgery and demand to speak to a doc.

I spoke to the doc last Monday and she didn’t even give me a chance to sit down before she said “so the results of your scan there’s a small polyp on your gallbladder it’s nothing to worry about so we’ll send you for another scan in three months”

I mean that was in the first 30seconds of the appointment, I know because I always record on my phone because she talks so fast I can never remember what she said. Anyway I know this is all irrelevant to the question as such but I am still angry at how I was not going to be told if I hadn’t called, and how my ten minutes appointment was over or “done and dealt with” in under 7 minutes leaving me a bit dazed to be honest.

Anyway, as you do I have tried to research and found an actual medical paper describing the types of polyp and they are 95% benign but it seams that there is a bit of a conflict over wether to remove the polyp or leave it and do scans at intervals to check for growth. My immediate reaction was “whip it out” as in my gallbladder because I know people have them removed but is there a case for this being a problem? Would I be worse off without it? It’s not an appendix after all, so how do I know I will be better off with it gone all together- especially as I have a fatty liver.

That’s another point. I am menopausal but can’t tolerate hrt, I have high blood pressure and take rampril and about 8 years ago I had high cholesterol. I lost a couple of stones and the cholesterol and liver blood test results came back good. Since the peri-menopause started about 5 years ago I have just put a load of weight back on, I am 5’4” and weigh 11st7lb /165lb so about bmi of 27 and I can’t seem to move it, I started running but my knee has put a stop to that so I am back to no exercise and stuck at this weight. Btw I have just turned 45 not 65 or even 55 so the menopause thing is pretty depressing to me - luckily I do have kids so it’s not as bad as it could be.

I’ll stop ranting now. Starting to feel pretty sorry for myself haha.

If anyone has any insight into any of this I would be grateful to hear/read it.

🙂