Hi guys,
I had a very enlarged gallbladder removed in 2013. I must have waited too long because my surgeon said that he had never seen one so big. The surgery went well, the post-op was fine, and other than fluid collecting in the empty space and wreaking havoc on a lung things were fine.
But I continued to have phantom pains. Stabbing, aching pain where the gallbladder used to be.
Things have just gotten worse and recently I had a bunch of tests, x-rays, and an MRI.
My liver is very enlarged (+50%) and my enzymes are high but not alarmingly so. It was not enlarged in June.
The good news is no cirrhosis (I don't drink either), no cancer, no abscesses, no cysts. It is not 'fatty' either.
So lots of 'no's' but no idea what it could be. Some days it pinches (we originally thought that a staple had migrated and was scratching me from the inside but it isn't that) or scratches but mostly it aches and feels like I have an outsized football in there.
Is this just another one of those things that we have to live with? Is this common? Are any of you dealing with non-specific liver problems.
Sharon
ps. How is everyone doing? How are you handling the confinement/deconfinement/reconfinement?