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@Pals posted:

Does having a J pouch make Gallbladder surgery more difficult?  Meaning them hitting our pouch with an instrument.

This is another "your mileage may vary" thing, but I'll tell you what my surgeon shared. First, he said he's done the procedure on several j-pouch patients. He could not tell me ahead of time whether it would be open surgery. His preference is to try it laparoscopically (for faster recovery time) and if the scar tissue is too much of a problem he'll switch to open. He wasn't concerned about the actual pouch sustaining an injury.

The first question I asked when I woke up was "Was it open?" The nurse said no, he'd managed to do it laparoscopically. But it took longer than usual and was billed at a higher level of complexity because "there was a lot to blast through." That was in reference to the scar that goes down the middle of my stomach, not the ileostomy scar (which was untouched).

That gallbladder scar that goes through the colectomy scar was more painful and took longer to heal than the ones in other locations and still looks kind of strange.

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