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

Re: PCOS and Gallbladder - and a question

From: TJ (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 31 Jul 2001 15:42:13 -0500 (CDT)

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Well, I have a strong feeling I have PCOS (have almost every symptom) and I have all kinds of gastrointestinal issues. I have colitis, my liver enzymes are very high so I was told that was fatty liver, and I also have acalculus cholecystitis (inflammation of the gall bladder, no stones) - my gallbladder fills but it doesn't empty so it is basically useless. I've had constant pain and discomfort in my "right upper quadrant" for over a year now. The gastro doc is working on what my options are - the pain may be from a sphincter or the gallbladder. Don't want to have to take out the gallbladder and find out that wasn't the cause for the pain after all.. I see an Endocrinologist (first visit!) tomorrow and I've never been so excited to see a doctor; I am sooo hoping she puts my mind at ease and confirms what I've suspected for so long - that I DO have PCOS. I don't know, I guess just being able to pin a name on all these weird things that have been going on with me will bring me some small comfort, who knows....

Hey - this has also just made me think of a question I wanted to post - IF she decides I do have PCOS, what is the likelihood that she will prescribe medication at this first visit? Do you think she will just put me on a low carb diet for a while to try, or do you think will she go the drug route first? I know this is probably a silly question that there is no way of anyone knowing the answer to, but I'm curious as to what you guys had happen at the first visit. I don't know which to hope for...

Thanks guys for reading, hope everyone is doing well today.

Tracy

At Tue, 31 Jul 2001, kristin wrote: >
>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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