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Originally Posted by unlurking
This.
I spent 24 hours in the hospital on antibiotics and painmeds waiting for the inflammation to go down before they could operate. Apparently laparoscopy becomes a less likely option the larger your gallbladder gets.
Also, nobody warned me about this or explained laparoscopy to me at the time (pretty out of it on meds), and it kinda freaked me out. Apparently they pump air into your abdomen to make it easier to see and move around inside you. When they're done, they release as much as they can, but you often get sewn up with air bubbles still inside that can move around your body. When I first woke up and couldn't yet move, I had a horrible pain in my shoulder. I thought they dropped me off the operating table or something. Apparently it was just a gas bubble, but it hurt like hell.
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They told me all about it....told me when I woke up to say a number from 1-10 for a pain scale. They would adjust my meds based on my number...when I came out I said 7....and 5 seconds later I was feeling no pain. Now, when that gas bubble decides to leave the best thing your family can do is leave the house.