Good luck with your gall bladder surgery. Had same @ 2-3 years ago.
I hope FReepers all file reports of their experiences post-Obamacare. So far I’ve only seen my eye doc and no problems, just $5 higher co-pay.
I wish mine was only 5 bucks. It doubled. I guess my wallet wished this had happened a few weeks ago.
200 bucks is what I paid.
agree with EDINVA’s sentiments. I also had mine removed about 3-4 years ago now. One of the best things I ever got rid of!
Take it easy introducing more than a few fatty foods into your diet for a while (a week to a couple weeks). If you go slow and see what gives you problems after the surgery (if any), you will thank yourself and probably tolerate fatty foods better in the long run.
There are very few things I can’t eat/imbibe. If I go all out on a large caribou chiller with all the fixin’s, that’ll set me off, but I can handle a medium quite well. I can’t point to much else I know I can’t do. The first meaningfully fatty food I tried (about a week after my surgery) was pizza. It had been a few months since I had any, so I really wanted it. No probs, but I was slowly inching my tolerance back up eating buttered toast for example and maybe a piece or two of bacon another time - stuff like that.
When I ended up in the ER for mine I didn’t know that was what was wrong with me, but I knew something was wrong. I ate 3 pieces of peanut butter toast as a snack after having eaten a pretty decent chunk of ring bologna for supper earlier. At lunch, our group at work had an outing to Fogo De Chao, so I obviously drove myself into a meat coma there. To say that I was in a heap of pain would be an understatement.
Mine was a kind of long row to hoe... It was a long chain of events lasting a few months of procedures that I don’t want to revisit anytime soon. Ultimately all that led up to getting an MRI in the ER that finally found the gall bladder issue. At first it was postulated that either I had a wheat allergy/celiac or I was lactose intolerant. No one was able to definitively state what was wrong until that point.
You seriously lucked out by comparison.
Good luck to you!