So sorry Dusty....and speaking from personal experience...you need to get another doctor. I had gallbladder attacks for years. I finally went in, not during an attack and they scheduled an ultra sound. I had it a couple days later and it clearly showed a gall stone the size of a golf ball. I was in surgery having the gallbladder removed a couple of weeks later and haven't had a problem since. So you do not need to be in the middle of an attack for an image to show the stones. I'd go to the VA if that's what you need to do to get this taken care of. I remember all the nights of sleeping sitting up and feeling like I was having a heart attack if I even slightly moved. Nothing to mess around with my friend. Hope you can get this taken care of SOON....it's the worst pain next to kidney stones and childbirth!!....oh, and getting stabbed...although I don't know how that feels......sending healing vibes buddy!!
edited to add. Gall bladder surgery is a same day surgery, barring any complications. I was in and out in about 4 hrs. and laid around over the week end....then good to go...easy peasy....there is absolutely no reason for you to suffer another attack.
edited to add. Gall bladder surgery is a same day surgery, barring any complications. I was in and out in about 4 hrs. and laid around over the week end....then good to go...easy peasy....there is absolutely no reason for you to suffer another attack.
Actually no, and I have no idea of when or how I will be able to get this damn thing taken care of, I swear these people are fricken idiots, on several occasions I have experienced extreme pain right below my breast bone and dismissed it at first as I thought I may have over worked myself with the weights and just caused some muscle damage or a possible hernia, but after a day it went away, didn't think anything of it until the next time, which actually put me to my knees, it felt like someone had stabbed me right below my breast bone, (and yes, I do know what it's like to be stabbed, had that happen before) anyway again the pain disappeared after about 6 hours and then nothing for another 6 months or so, then it happened again and I knew it had nothing to do with the weights this time as I was working a different set of muscles and after being in Martial Arts for well lets just say quite a large number of years it wasn't gong away as quickly so I went to the ER, spent 6 1/2 hours in there and they came back to tell me I have Gallstones and was waiting to see when I could have surgery, well the idiots in the ER radiology department did not put down how big or how many stones were in there, I have had 3 attacks this past week each coming around 3 - 5 am, so today I went to see what can be done and I just got the typical run around and was told that nothing could be done until I had another attack and then they would be able to do another US and document the size of the stones and how many and then should be able to do the surgery. So this mean I have to wait again until I have that stabbing pain, run to the friggen hospital and have them to another US while I am in this pain so that has to be done when the gallbladder is constricted so they can get an accurate reading on them and go from there! What a crock of crap..... being told I can't eat any damn thing other then chicken broth etc, BS that's not happening. So upon whenever the next damn attack takes place then I will get to go back to the damn ER and go through all the BS again to document the size of them. I am not a very happy camper to say the least. I was given prescriptions for 6 different medications of which cost a damn fortune as I don't have heath care insurance since I am still not working. If I went to the VA I would have to go to Gainesville and still get the run around.
Anyway, that was my day! Not happy...... AT ALL!
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On topic...I'm so excited! I filled a carto tank with vanilla cupcake, steeped for over a month, and it was just so great! Finally a vanilla I could taste. I'll be ordering more of this one!
