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  • Doctors: What lives to my right of my stomach, under my ribs please?
  • GTDave
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    IIRC you can still get common bile duct stones even though you have no gall bladder

    Karinofnine
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    Update. I went to a specialist yesterday. I'm booked for an ultrasound scan next Wednesday.

    Apparently you CAN grow gallstones without a gallbladder, and he thinks this is what I've done. He says the "chemistry [that was there to create the original stones] is still there". Interesting eh?

    Wonder what method will be used to get rid of them? Bearing in mind I am in training for Kielder it had better be minimal.

    DrP
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    I'd put my money on it being either:
    -recurrence of duodenal ulcer
    -common bile duct stone (the CBD is what takes the bile from the liver to the gut – it can get stones too)

    As you're still here 2 weeks later, appendicitis seems unlikey 😉

    DrP

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    DrP
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    Oh – to get rid of them they stick a scope down your mouth to the early part of the gut, then fish the stones out of the pipes with a little net!
    (ERCP if interested)

    DrP

    Karinofnine
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    DrP, I'm impressed – the directions to the radiographer say: "scan upper biliary tree". I'll let you know the results. Thanks for the heads up on the likely procedure, sounds like little or no time off the bike (I take it they will put me to sleep to do it?).

    I've got a cyst behind my knee and a lump on my knee cap. Seems I broke it last year (I remember what caused it) without realising and it's healed itself with an extra bit. Funny, it was just before the Brighton Big Dog. I started but pulled out because my knee felt strange. I felt really wimpish for pulling out. Now I know it was broken I feel better. Unfortunately I did ligament damage too which has made the cyst. I'm having it drained in the short term then after Kielder I'll have it fixed permanently (6-8 weeks off hard riding).

    GTDave
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    Nah, they don't knock you out for ERCP, just lightly sedated.
    Local anasthetic spray for the throat, sedative in the arm, then swallow the scope. Possibly an overnight stay but that's all.

    avdave2
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    As you're still here 2 weeks later, appendicitis seems unlikey

    Mine went haywire on 5 occasions before it finally came out. I was ultra sounded to check for stones poked and prodded around by several doctors, went to A&E on the advice of one doctor and no one seemed to be able to find out what was wrong. Finally after another attack a locum doctor at the surgery referred me to a specialist at Lewes hospital. I described what was happening and he looked at my notes and told me it was my appendix flaring up, effectively an appendicitis starting but then settling down again after 24 hours or so. He said it might never go nuclear but based on the fact that I travel a lot for work and there are places with a worse health system than the UK he felt it best it came out. I agreed, not a difficult decision considering how bad I felt during an attack. He opened his diary said when do you want it out and we agreed on a date around 7 weeks later, he could have done it in 4 weeks but I had work commitments. The pathology results showed it had been the problem and it was inflamed when it came out.

    So although it's unlikely that you've got a dodgy appendix don't rule it out. I saw plenty of doctors all of whom took the situation seriously and sent me for all manner of tests but none of whom had thought it might be my appendix.

    DrP
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    The pathology results showed it had been the problem and it was inflamed when it came out…

    Interesting, but very rare to have a grumbling appendicitis! Glad it got sorted.

    based on the fact that I travel a lot for work and there are places with a worse health system than the UK….

    You're not an astronaut are you?! For some reason I have it in my head that they take the appendix out in astronauts prophylacticaly for that very reason!

    DrP

    Karinofnine
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    Got the results of an ultra sound scan. No stones or abnormalities in liver, kidney or any part of my biliary tree.

    I've got to go for a CT scan on Monday, and an endoscopy either next Friday or the Friday after 🙁

    wwaswas
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    endoscopy

    I can sense another Agent Picolax thread on the way…

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