Anyone had gallbladder issues?

[Think. Again.]

15. Mine was an emergency procedure...

In my early 50's, the pain started at the beginning of a week and by Saturday night SEVERE pain landed me in the emregency room, where at first they didn't realize what the problem was. Emergency removal surgery that night.

I spent a few days recovering in the hospital (they told me the bladder itself was very bad, whatever that means, apparently it had been going bad, unnoticed, for a while) and had a drainage hose of some kind removed about a week later.

Since healing from all that everything has been fine. No change of diet, no bowel difficulties, no real difference from before the trouble began.

Wishing you the best.