Hi, looking for some advice and to see if anyone has a familiar story as I am
clueless.
I’m currently on a surgical waiting for an mri scan. I woke in the early hours of Sunday feeling dreadful and was sick, then had a fever and pain in my back between my shoulder blades and a fever.
I put it down to food poisoning as we had been out for a meal and I’d had a chicken dish that i didn’t finish as it wasn’t nice at all. So I was in bed on Sunday and went to work on Monday feeling ropey.
On Tuesday I went to work and in the afternoon had a wee that was really dark orange colour but put it down to me having had Pepto Bismol, anyway I went home that evening and DS1 said I looked a funny colour, when I looked in the mirror I was yellow!! It was so shocking, called 111 and they said go to a&e.
So I’ve been here since then, I had a CT scan and the consultant said it shows I have a 13mm gallstone blocking my bile duct which explains the jaundice, he wants to put operate via my throat to remove it but wants me to have a mri scan first, there is a wait for that though, he thinks Tuesday so I am stuck here in the meantime.
I’m so worried, he said that I would need my gallbladder removed further down the line but has anyone had an experience where they haven’t needed it removed after having gallstones?
My family history is surrounded, my dad and his brother have had a gallbladder removed and both my gran and grandad on my mums side had trouble!