u/Ladasada

How did you know you were ready for the next kid? My child is about 1.5 and I have been eating up this age! Best age so far. I want another…at this age lol. But obviously have to do the newborn thing again, but that’s what’s keeping me from trying again yet. I love kids, babysat my whole life. But I don’t want broken sleep yet again. But I want more little feet running to me! I also have sports that I do recreationally that I can’t do while pregnant and am still trying to workout and lose some more weight before trying again. But then my friends had to go and get pregnant/ have another baby and now I have baby feverrrrrrr. Ugh help

Hi all! I started getting gallbladder attacks which eventually led to being diagnosed with gallstones and having a lap chole. But all my liver enzymes were normal before surgery. The procedure was about 2.5 weeks ago. Since then I had persistent side pain which I attributed to surgery. Didn’t think much until 10 days after surgery I had a sudden sharp pain in my side, it quickly escalated to a 10/10 pain and I went immediately to the hospital by ambulance. They gave me toradol which worked for 20 min for the pain and then gave me morphine. Did a CT, Xray, sono and EKG which all came back normal. They ended up just sending me home and telling me to stay away from fats (which I’ve been doing)

Fast forward, I was still having side pain, radiating to my back and gnawing in my stomach but it was manageable. Eating boiled potatoes, chicken, apple sauce- yum🙄
I then went to another follow up with the surgeon on Tuesday who did labs which I attached. Basically all my liver levels were very elevated. Called me today and told me to go immediately to the ER thinking I had a retained stone which they would’ve done an ERCP for.

While in the ER today- no pain. Nothing. They did an MRI, no stone, nothing crazy except for a “stretched pocket” as the gastro put it which he then said because of that and my itching, he was suspecting PSC. Now I got all anxious bc this isn’t just a walk in the park diagnosis. But he said he still wasn’t sure. Meanwhile my bilirubin came back down a bit (AST, ALT still elevated tho) and I’m no longer itchy.

Does this sound like PSC? I’m open to answering any questions. They don’t want to do the ERCP because of the risk of pancreatitis and my bile duct is paper thin. So they are giving me ursodiol to take for a couple weeks and then follow up in 3 months

I think I wanna see someone sooner.. maybe a different gastro. My surgeon is just a general surgeon so I don’t think he even knows what PSC is. But I don’t know what to think of all this, it’s giving me severe anxiety and I already lost 15 lbs since my surgery.

Forgot to post my labs but as of Tuesday:
Bilirubin 3.3
Alk phos 359
AST 502
ALT 1312

Friday
Bilirubin 1.7
Alk phos 357
AST 301
ALT 1391

I am like 8 hours postop

First surgery

And yes, it’s not all of your faults but is purely mine bc I kept reading and reading all these scary stories but— dude not bad! If you have given birth, I’d say the pain is about 25% of the pain of childbirth recovery.

I’m walking fine, just LIGHTLY hunched over like barely bending over, walking good

Easy to go pee, haven’t pooped yet just took colace so don’t scare me okay.

Gas pains hurt yes but not that bad and u have strong pain meds to get u thru it

So excited to move forward in recovery and so happy I made this decision because I was going to the hospital too much for this

Wishing zero anxiety for all you pre op baddies - you’ll be fine!

Editing this because it’s being taken the wrong way! The point is- everyone’s experience is going to be different and reading horror story after horror story of complications doesn’t help many people’s anxiety before surgery. Learn from me, ignore the horror stories, stay calm, and know that your experience is going to be different than so many other people’s experiences.

Second EDIT: now about 36 hours post op- alittle more stiff today but it feels great to walk around, and an over the shoulder heating pad is fantastic for the gas trapped in my shoulders! No more oxy after last night, and no bowel movement yet but feeling pretty good! Just uncomfortable but taking Motrin and Tylenol!