PCOS Messages for July, 2001: Re: PCOS and Gallbladder

Re: PCOS and Gallbladder

From: kristin (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 31 Jul 2001 10:09:02 -0400

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Hi Belinda.....My name is kristin. i am a surgical technologist in Florida. i assist in probably 2 to 3 gallbladder removals a week (at last i know who to go to when mine needs to come out!..lol) Gallstones are actually calcium deposits, not too unlike kidney stones. they can be little tiny things or big, honking chunks. You get a gallbladder "attack" when one or more of these stones gets lodged in one of the two ducts that go from the gallbladder to the liver and back. The medical name for this is cholelithiasis. You also feel pain when the gallbladder gets inflamed from infection. The name for that is cholecystitis. We so fortunate folk who have PCOS (yeah, right lol), tend to see gallbladder problems, i think not as a direct result of the PCOS, but rather because many of us are overweight and weight tends to be a predisposing factor in a person with gallbladder problems. Also given that we don't metabolize darn near anything very well, you may find that we have a higher instance of "fatty liver". Incidentally, gallbaldder disease occurs in thin people too. Hope this info was of some help.....Kristin

>----- Original Message -----
From: "Belinda" <anonymous@obgyn.net> To: "Multiple recipients of list PCOS" <anonymous@obgyn.net> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 9:40 AM Subject: Re: PCOS and Gallbladder

> I don't really know what I'm talking about here (!) but aren't gall
> stones deposits of cholestrol that all clump together?
>
> If so we could expect to get them more than others as we tend to have
> higher cholestrol levels, presumably due to the difficulty our bodies
> have using and storing fat, thanks to the insulin resistance...
>
> just a thought...
>
> Belinda
>

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