Have any of you had gallstones after WLS and had to have your gallbladder removed?

Yes. Use the search function at the top of the forum and you will get answers from previous postings.

My surgery isn't until Monday but, I did lose 80 pounds rapidly back in the mid 90s which caused me to have my gallbladder out.

I don’t have any problems right now, but

my surgeon said approximately half of sleeved patients will need their gallbladder out post op at some point. Yikes!

My doctor wanted to take it during surgery knowing that gb issues occur. But he spent too much time cleaning up adhesions he had no time. Two years later out it came. Easy surgery. Good luck!

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I haven’t had the WLS yet but I had mine out in December. My surgeon removes all gallbladder that have even a small stone in them, because he knows they will eventually come out. He wasn’t the one that took mine out, but he would have otherwise. On another note, the gallbladder attacks were a new kind of pain that I wouldn’t wish on anyone. I went through three rounds before I finally gave in and went to see my doctor. Goodness, I should have went much sooner, they were debilitating.


Age: 37
Height: 5’6
BMI: 37
VSG scheduled for 4/16/18
GW: 160
MFP: Fit4LifeAR

On 3/24/2018 at 12:21 PM, Sosewsue61 said:

Yes. Use the search function at the top of the forum and you will get answers from previous postings.

I did. There were some random posts that were helpful, but I wanted people to comment here all in one spot - kinda like a poll. "Yes, I had my gallbladder out x years after the sleeve" or "no, I'm x years post sleeve and my gallbladder is fine". Saw nothing like this in my searches. Thanks though.

Yes I had my sleeve October of 2017 and by December I was having gallstones. Gallbladder taken out December 29th.

I had Roux N Y gastric bypass 8 yrs ago. Dr. wanted to take gb at the same time but he had too many adhesions to clean up. (3 C-sections caused those) so about 3-4 yrs later started having pain in the area of the gb, so we opted to remove it. Never asked if there were stones in it, but pain was gone

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Have any of you had gallstones after WLS and had to have your gallbladder removed?

I had my cholecystectomy same time as my sleeve 3/19 because of stones. Two for one

I had my DS on Feb 8th and 3 weeks later was in awful pain and had to have my gallbladder removed March 2nd!

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You all make it sound so easy!! LOL Glad to know you are all doing better!

my surgery is next Monday 4/2/18 and they are doing a triple on me! Duodenal Switch , Hiatal Hernia, and Gall bladder removal. Ughhhh

glamgirl, it sounds like that's the best way to go! I had the hiatal hernia repair with my sleeve, but now I'm worried about my gallbladder down the road. Good luck to you on Monday. You are going to do great. Knock all this outta the park!!

Have any of you had gallstones after WLS and had to have your gallbladder removed?

I’m 1.5 years out only 25 years old and I had an attack about a month ago. Never had any previous symptoms and it was very severe I actually had gange green and it had to be removed immediately. The surgeon said he had never seen one in that condition for someone under 50. He also of course mentioned that with wls gallbladder disease is common. Scariest thing I’ve ever been through medically it was so painful [emoji52][emoji52]

7 hours ago, logicwand said:

glamgirl, it sounds like that's the best way to go! I had the hiatal hernia repair with my sleeve, but now I'm worried about my gallbladder down the road. Good luck to you on Monday. You are going to do great. Knock all this outta the park!!

Aww thank you for those kind words of encouragement logicwand!