Wandered off my diet big time on Christmas, probably consumed more carbs and fat in one day than I had in the entire previous month....and had the mother of all gall bladder attacks later that evening.
Thought I was all better...until this afternoon when I was on a test drive with a customer and all of a sudden I felt like my upper abdomen was caught in a vice, I was blowing up with gas, and my liver was spasming...
They called the paramedics and an ambulance for me. Spent the next 6 hours at the ER and back and forth between labs, radiology for an ultrasound, and the medical clinic.
Results of the lab and ultrasound were not good. Apparently my little organ is full of sludge, with a couple of large stones thrown in for contrast and a thickened wall...the sick little puppy has got to come out. Only problem is I have a fever and it's become infected, so now I've got to stay on antibiotics to try and get the infection under control so I can have the Lap surgery. Meeting with the surgeon Friday morning. Keep your fingers crossed that I don't have any more attacks between now and then.
And I'd like to make one thing perfectly clear...Medifast did NOT cause my gallstones and sludge. I'd had problems with it well before this latest episode. Eating all that fat, however, at Christmas did trigger the attack...So the moral of the story is stick to the program and you'll be fine.
---Carmel
P.S. Hey! Does anyone know how much a gall bladder weighs? (Not that I'm advising it's removal as a viable weight loss strategy...)
) Sorry about the attack. Please don't be too hard on yourself. I knew a 23 year-old in Dallas who was just slightly overweight and ate reasonably well and had to have his removed.
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