2scents -“Someone I know was having Gall stone attackes, two doctors recomended that he remove the gallbladder right away,
At the meeting with the surgeon, the surgeon did a thourough invesitagtion and stated that in his opinion any surgery should be a last resort, he recomended that the patient start a diciplined diet and see if the stones give him any problems.”
While every case is different -so I’m not about to say this surgeon is wrong – this is not the standard.
“He stated that a large percentage of people have stones yet do not have any problems with the gallblader.”
This is true, but from your own words this wasn’t the case here –
“I know was having Gall stone attackes” – this means they weren’t asymptomatic. The treatment for Gallstone attacks is removal of the Gallbladder. There are other options, but they generally are Not recommended. I posted this above:
“There are other treatments like Actigall -takes upto two years and only works half the time. They can do lithrotripsy (ultrasound breaking up the stones) -this works about 35% of the time.”
“Therefore, I think that you should get a few opinions and not jump for surgery.”
While it’s always a good idea to get a second opinion – this doesn’t mean shopping around until you find an opinion you agree with.
Surgery is the main treatment for inflammation of the gallbladder and/or Symptomatic gallstones.
The reason is because the chance of getting a complication from the surgery is much less than the chance of getting one from the disease itself.