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[dolari]

Name: JENN DOLARI DOB:7/26/1974
Chief Complaint: Abdominal pain, Acute Onset
Visit Date: 1/20/2007 12:13

Injury & Illness [confirmed dx]
GALLSTONES WITH BILIARY COLIC
The abdominal pain that you have had today is due to spasm of the gallbladder. The gallbladder is a small sack under the liver which stores and releases bile. Bile is a fluid that aids in the digestion of fat. A gallstone may form inside the gallbladder and block the flow of bile fluid. This causes mild to severe crampy pain in the mid or right upper abdomen with nausea and vomiting.

HOME CARE:
1) Rest in bed and follow a clear liquid diet until the pain, nausea and vomiting go away. If medicine was given to help with your symptoms, take these are directed.

2) Fat in your diet makes the gallbladder contract and may cause increased pain. Therefore, avoid fat in your diet over the next two days and follow a low-fat dier after that. If you are overweight, a low-fat diet will also help you lose weight.

FOLLOW UP:
There is a 50% chance that you will have another episode of pain from your gallstones during the next 2 years. Removal of the gallbladder is the treatment of choice to prevent this. Other symptoms such as bloating belching or fatty food intolerance may not be relieved by this operation. Schedule an appointment with your own doctor during the next week to discuss treatment options.

Medication & Drugs
MEDICATION: DARVOCET
Darvocet (generic: propoxyphene and acetaminophen) is a pain medication.

Comments

You know...

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

...holding on to too much bile can do that to you! Maybe California would be a lot better (but stay away from fatty foods).

[jadaze.livejournal.com]

So are they hopeful the gallstones will pass? (I don't have a gallbladder now for the vey same illness)

I'm less likely to think it's simply what we eat, and more likely a faulty gallbladder in the first place. Just take care of yourself, and I hope ya feel better soon!

[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

I wish...they're suggesting surgery, and I'm prolly gonna get it next month.

Gallstones

[zoebrain.livejournal.com]

I had my gallbladder out in the Dark Ages, in 1980. Not fun - but it was a relief, and I was walking about 3 days later, despite the 38 staples in my abdomen. But it was a month before I felt well enough to study.

The normal indicators for gallstones are "Fair, Fertile, Female, Fat, and Forty" . And I was Dark, Infertile, and Twenty. Not *that* overweight. And Intersexed (hence Infertile) rather than Female.

I recently had a student have her gallbladder removed. A week later she was fine, coming to University, and with almost no scarring. They've improved the technique a lot.

So please have your gallbladder removed. Afterwards, just cut down on the fatty foods a little, or have a mouthful of something very fatty a few minutes before a main meal to stimulate bile production.