I got my gall bladder removed on Friday (the day before my one-year bandiversary). My Lap Band surgeon did this surgery too and was able to remove it through one tiny incision almost inside my belly button. Recovery has been a breeze. I was back to work on Monday. I had more shoulder pain than with my Lap Band surgery but the incision and internal pain has been very minimal. :frown:

I'm glad everything went well.

I'm only 2 weeks pre-op. My Doctor put me on Urso forte. This is supposed to help with preventing gall stones/gall bladder issues. Were you on this med? Just curious if I'm taking this for nothing.

Hope you feel better soon.

I also had my gallbladder removed on April 3rd. I think maybe they should just take it out when they do the band because 9 out of 10 times you are going to have gallstones. My doctor that did my band was the one that did the same surgery. They were orginally going to have another surgeon do it, but he had never even seen the lapband before. I emailed my surgeon and told him if this doctor does my surgery and my band gets messed up I will sue. They rescheduled me with my lapband surgeon. Everything was fine after surgery except I had a small hernia from the constipation with the band. He repaired the hernia and everything is good. :frown:

I'm only 2 weeks pre-op. My Doctor put me on Urso forte. This is supposed to help with preventing gall stones/gall bladder issues. Were you on this med? Just curious if I'm taking this for nothing.

Hope you feel better soon.

Nope, never heard of that drug.

I also had my gallbladder removed on April 3rd. I think maybe they should just take it out when they do the band because 9 out of 10 times you are going to have gallstones. My doctor that did my band was the one that did the same surgery. They were orginally going to have another surgeon do it, but he had never even seen the lapband before. I emailed my surgeon and told him if this doctor does my surgery and my band gets messed up I will sue. They rescheduled me with my lapband surgeon. Everything was fine after surgery except I had a small hernia from the constipation with the band. He repaired the hernia and everything is good. :frown:

I agree, my surgeon told me up-front that 70% of his patients who have their gall bladder and have rapid weight loss with the band end up having to have it removed. But the surgeon said that insurance wouldn't pay to have a healthy organ removed. As soon as I found out mine needed to come out, I called my Lap Band doc, I didn't want someone else in there either.

Glad to hear you are doing good now.