Advice Needed

[carleyK 7]

Have been banded for 3 years... My gallbladder went haywire last year and had to be removed. I will be the first to admitt that I have not made the best food choices lately. My situation is... I have began to have moderate to severe pain around, if not directly from, my liver.. Is there anyone else that has had or is having this issue? I have went back to liquids for a few days to get the "crap" out if my system. It has not helped as of yet. Any advice or suggestions would be helpful.

[raindrop1999 15]

ya ,yliver very bad and pain but loosingweight should help have it checked

[Maddysgram 6,159]

See your Doctor!

[Sojourner 2,446]

I agree with Maddysgram...you need to be evaluated by a doctor. And I'm not talking about your bariatric surgeon, but an internal medicine specialist.

My gall bladder also gave me issues...to the extent that I was hospitalized for pancreatitis. It was a "missed diagnosis" to my bariatric surgeon who told me I must have "pulled a muscle", and I told him pointedly no way.

My PCP took one glance at my lab results taken while in the hospital and immediately began testing to identify why I had gotten pancreatitis. Elevated pancreas specific enzymes pointed specifically to the "missed diagnosis" of my surgeon. The PCP could not believe or understand why the red flags of elevated enzymes had never been followed up on.

I later confronted the bariatric surgeon about this after I had a definitive diagnosis of biliary dyskensia, and all he could do was apologize to me for his oversight of what he agreed was an obvious diagnosis had he read the lab results.

Bariatric surgeons have a very limited scope of practice...I believe you need to see a specialist to get some accurate answers.

[utcaneuser 32]

As good as the Bariatric Surgeons are you should always confirm their med orders etc. with your pcp. They know you better than anyone if you've been honest with them. This far out you should not have continious pain. I could understand a twinge here and there but thats it.

[Sojourner 2,446]

"Medical orders, etc." should never need to be "confirmed

As good as the Bariatric Surgeons are you should always confirm their med orders etc. with your pcp. They know you better than anyone if you've been honest with them. This far out you should not have continious pain. I could understand a twinge here and there but thats it.

"Medical orders, etc." should never need to be "confirmed" by another physician...regardless of their origin. If you are licensed to practice medicine, then you pass your board exams with the ability to practice general medicine.

There are basic, global principles of standard medical knowledge and care a patient has a right to expect from their physician. If the physician then chooses to specialize in a specific area of medicine, it requires additional education and residency time. Every physician becomes a fully qualified and educated medical doctor before they can become a specialist.

A medical doctor who chooses to become a specialist should still have adequate diagnostic skills to render an accurate differential diagnosis to their patient.

My bariatric surgeon, though well qualified in his specialty failed me as a physician when he did not follow up on obvious specific markers, which as standard treatment protocol should have been explored.

Many physicians would be offended for you to insist on "checking their work" by requiring their orders to be confirmed by another of their peers.