Good Morning Friends,

I have started the clearance process and have already gotten my chest xray, lab work, and ultrasound of my gall bladder. I am hoping to have surgery in late January or early February and trying to get all my clearance done. Have cardiology and pulmonology appointments next week and hopefully I can get an appointment with the psychologist soon. The soonest I could get in with the gastroenterologist was january 6, but that should be the last clearance I will need. Well I got a call from my PCM office with the results of the ultrasound and was told that I have gall baldder disease. I have no idea what that means. Will this hinder my RNY surgery?

It should not hinder it. Your surgeon may be able to remove the gallbladder at the same time as your rny. It will need to come out as it is common for rny patients to have issues. I had mine removed about 4 months post op.

A few years back it was common for some surgeons to remove the gall bladder at the same time they did the gastric bypass. Clinical studies failed to show that the incidence of gall bladder disease following bypass justified the "automatic" removal so most surgeons discontinued the practice. But as music has indicated, with your pre-op diagnosis, the surgeon will very likely remove the gall bladder at the same time. There's no point in having two surgeries when the same job can be done with one.

You're gonna love the new you!!