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  • 4 Ways to Identify Gallstones

    ... abdomen to send sound waves toward the gallbladder. As the sound waves bounce off the gallbladder, liver and other organs, their echoes make electrical impulses, creating a picture of the gallb...

  • 5 Ways to Diagnose Gallstones

    ... reliable way to find gallstones in the gallbladder and can occasionally find them in the common bile duct.

  • 4 Ways to Identify Biliary Atresia

    Infants with biliary atresia typically appear normal at birth but begin to show symptoms of the disorder between two weeks and two months of age. The most noticeable physical sign is jaundice, a y...

  • 4 Ways to Identify Gallstones Symptoms

    A gallstone is a solid mass composed of cholesterol or calcium salt that forms and resides in your gall bladder. Some lucky individuals are asymptomatic for gallstones but many others experience un...

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Conversations On Gallbladder Scan

  • Gallbladder Pain?


    • Posted On December 30, 2008 05:11:52 AM

      ...or today. Do you think it could be his gallbladder? Read More

    • Posted On December 30, 2008 07:08:58 PM

      So yeah, it was his gallbladder... they did an ultrasound and though they didn't find any gall stones, they said he has some "sludge." Whatever that is exactly. Onto see the specialist ... Read More

  • Gallbladder surgery


    • Posted On January 29, 2009 07:10:50 AM

      ...stones and was told I needed to have my gallbladder out. I eat a healthy diet and was told it was genetic that is why I have the stones. I was wondering what some experiences people have had af... Read More

    • Posted On January 29, 2009 07:43:14 AM

      ...ogram my husband was told he needed his gallbladder removed. Only to find out later, after a HIDA scan that his gallbladder was functioning fine and that he had very minimal sludge. Then they ... Read More

  • The Perhaps-Hypochondriac Topic


    • Posted On January 27, 2009 08:10:50 PM

      ...ly I saw a new doctor and he did a HIDA scan. It turns out my gallbladder just quit and no one else thought to run this test. So sometimes hypochondriacs are right! Of course I've been wrong... Read More

    • Posted On January 27, 2009 05:52:11 PM

      Just a silly (or maybe even a serious) discussion on diseases you thought you might have had at one point in your life. One time, I thought I had appendicitis, but I never found out what it actual... Read More

  • Pet Peeves (Rant Thread)


    • Posted On June 10, 2008 01:03:12 PM

      ...rchases, so the checker has to go back, scan everything out of the system and then scan all the items back in into their respective groups. Drives me nuts. Read More

    • Posted On June 10, 2008 01:50:17 PM

      ...friend could get his poorly functioning gallbladder removed. Read More

  • Pain in Colon Area


    • Posted On January 9, 2009 09:53:56 AM

      ...be related. On Monday I am having a CT scan of my abdominal area, and of course, I am concerned, about what the results might show. Any help, advice for me? I am trying not to jump to the obv... Read More

    • Posted On January 9, 2009 05:13:38 PM

      ... Doctors wanted to remove my husband's gallbladder once they found he had some sludge in it but in reality his gallbladder was functioning fine and the sludge was merely a coincidence. We got ... Read More

  • Indigestion


    • Posted On July 6, 2008 08:33:32 PM

      ...ver 10 years and my Dr tested my heart, gallbladder, ulcers....and couldn't find anything. She explained it as indigestion (GERD) I am hoping if I lose some weight it will help this once and fo... Read More

    • Posted On July 21, 2008 11:33:57 AM

      ... in the back really sounds like when my gallbladder stopped working. What tests did she do for your gallbladder? I got many ultrasounds for gallstones and continued to suffer, then a new docto... Read More

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Gallbladder Scan Blogs

Another Health Update: The Gallbladder is Fine

So, in an odd twist of luck, I had my ultrasound on Friday morning. I woke up after fasting all night, hungry and nauseous as all get-out, and a little bit sore, and went to the hospital, checked in and had the ultrasound done. It was a comprehensive...

foreign gratitude

this post is also about foreign relations, but, unlike the last, this actually has to do with surgery. one thing about nelspruit is when people visit the kruger, if something goes wrong, they end up here. one such group was a european family that stopped...

Guess I didn't want a gallbladder, after all...

Saw the surgeon today. He's quite young, only in his mid-thirties, but that aside, he's going to remove my entire gallbladder. The stone is pretty big, apparently, and once the gallbladder starts to produce stones, it keeps doing it. He did explain to me...

My last run...

...with my gallbladder. (See previous entry number one and entry number two for the backstory.) It was humid, way muggy. But I did it. For the first time in two weeks, I pulled myself out of bed at 5 a.m., brushed my teeth, put in my contacts, found...

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