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Life Without Gallbladder Tag: gallbladder – compose of posts pertaining to gallbladder organ, which stores bile that helps in digesting food. It may have gallstones if any.

First shot of beer

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Drinking Beer

I had my first glass of San Miguel Beer Pale Pilsen!

7 months after my Lap Chole (Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy) operation, I found myself holding an icy San Miguel beer. Not just holding the glass but drinking the beer.

First reaction – I almost forgot the taste of cold San Miguel Beer. I waited some minutes for my system to react to the beer. And since it was a round-robin shots, I had ample time to feel how my stomach would react. But I only had the normal system reaction – burping. Then I had some more shots and I feel no stomach pain, no adverse reaction.

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Medicines In My Drawer

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I was looking for something in my drawer then I saw a bunch of medicines. Wow, I took a lot of different kinds of medicines before and after my Lap Chole (Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy) operation, which removed my gallstones and my gallbladder. Thus, living a life with no gallbladder.

Norgesic Forte Tablet is manufactured by iNova Pharmaceuticals (Phils), Inc and distributed by Metro Drug Distribution. It contains 50 mg of Orphenadrine citrate, and 650 mg of paracetamol. Its approved therapeutic usage as listed in MIMS Philippines: Acute or chronic painful muscular conditions, non-articular rheumatism, whiplash injury, acute torticollis, tension headache, dysmenorrhea.

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Test: Eating fried fatty pork

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I was surprised to see the dish served at the table yesterday – a deep-fried fatty pork with skin.

When I sat on the chair, I was saying to myself, “Am I going to eat this fried pork with fats and skin?” So, I looked at the other dish, a more favorable one – fish. But since it’s already 4 months after my lap chole procedure, 2 months after I got hospitalized and was supposedly scheduled for an ERCP procedure, I thought that it would be another food to test.

The pork meat was smaller than the fats on all cuts. As I took a bite on the fried pork, I felt the fats and the oil but with well cooked meat and crunchy skin. And it was great to eat back the food that I longed for. I have been fasting for months on delicious yet to be avoided foods because I no longer have a gallbladder. But yesterday, I took another test, another step of eating back normally – eating a to be avoided food.
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