<p>Using a bmi calculator on a muscular athlete is all kinds of useless.
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<p>Glad you’re not dying.</p>
<p>My boyfriend is a super lean bodybuilder and his BMI says he’s obese… It’s odd to me that doctors even go there, it’s not like the whole world doesn’t know they’re flawed.</p>
<p>I’ve never had a doctor mention BMI to me, but I am just a touch overweight right now and when doctors mention it they always try to write it off and say “well, you’re an athlete, it’s probably all muscle.” Only I’m not an athlete and it’s NOT muscle… it wasn’t 6 months ago when I weighed 30lbs more, either. lol. Don’t let it bother you, romani, doctors are silly sometimes.</p>
<p>Good news, Romani.
Amazing how some of our cc’ers zeroed in on the gall bladder possibility! I know 3 women who have had gall bladder surgery in the last 6 months. All under the age of 40.</p>
<p>Haha it’s not bothering me really. It was just a little irritating at the time. </p>
<p>It makes sense that the would use it when you have stomach pains. Anyone can tell by looking at me that I’m not overweight. (Maybe not when I stand next to my boyfriend who is a stick…like one of those emo boy-band skinny people…) </p>
<p>Yeah, now I just have to schedule an ultrasound sometime around 3 10 page papers in the next few weeks. Oh joy.</p>
<p>Have fun with that. 
I had a colonscopy during the first week of classes my senior year. It’s a toss up but I think I would take that over an ultrasound during finals! If you can get it scheduled it’ll be a quick in and out, procedure, though. I had an ultrasound of my gallbladder and a HIDA scan to test its function… the latter took a long time, but the ultrasound was a cinch.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t worry about the ultrasound interrupting your life too much – just bring your laptop to work on a paper while waiting – but if you do need gall bladder surgery, I hope you do prepare for some downtime and loopy thinking that might not mix well with writing papers. Good luck!</p>
<p>Gall Bladder surgery is no big deal anymore. Outpatient surgery, back to normal activity within a week. </p>
<p>Take it easy, I am sure that it will all work out. </p>
<p>Did they do blood work? That can give you clues sometimes.</p>
<p>Yes, they took blood work I should get those results tomorrow.,
It’s just finding time for the ultrasound but I know I need to do it.</p>
<p>Oh and when I got home, my dad casually mentioned that he has his gallbladder taken out a few years ago. I didn’t know my family had had any issues with gallbladders.</p>
<p>^^^^If it is indeed a gallbladder problem and you have put off the ultrasound, you will be very angry at yourself if you have a bad “attack” in the interim. Trust me, I know.</p>
<p>I agree with an above post; bring your books with you while you wait. It doesn’t take very long at all to have the ultrasound.</p>
<p>I had gallstones and had my gallbladder taken out. The u/s is pretty quick and should not take very long. Your pain sounds like mine when I was passing stones. They were small enough to pass but they were still painful. It happen at night mostly but it did happen during the day while was laying down. You may want to avoid anything that makes you sick until you find out.</p>
<p>Depending on your insurance and transportation limitations, you may be able to find someplace that will do the ultrasound on a Saturday or later in the evening on a weekday. I don’t remember which hospital it was, but one of the ones around our area did one of my procedures on a weekend, and my GP’s office actually has an ultrasound machine… no matter where you go most likely a technician will perform the ultrasound, tell you very little if anything, and then you’ll get a call from the doctor asking you to schedule a follow up after he’s looked at it… so it doesn’t necessarily matter too much where you have the procedure as long as you send the results to your doc. If you do some looking you may be able to find someplace to do it that fits into your schedule.</p>
<p>Might also want to check with your insurance and see if there are less expensive facilities to do the ultrasound – I had an MRI done at a freestanding facility and the cost (with the radiology report) was just about a third of the cost of having it done at our hospital.</p>
<p>agree the ultrasound is quick. I had one large stone so out it came. it took me a bit to recover even thoughit was laproscopic. More than a week. But thats just me. My pain was upper quadrant after a fatty meal. Being a nurse I knew the signs . My friend has sludge in her gallbladder and has attacks but hasnt had it removed. perhaps they can U/s your ovaries too?</p>
<p>I know the actual ultrasound is quick. Like I said, it’s the whole finding time to actually go do it thing. I have had probably a dozen ultrasounds in my lifetime… at least.</p>
<p>down, why would I need/want my ovaries to be looked at?</p>
<p>Sometimes severe abdominal pain in women is caused by ovarian cysts, etc. We just had a recent thread about the D of a poster who had abdominal pain–thought it might be appendicitis, but was diagnosed as menstrual pain.</p>
<p>Ah… wrong region of my belly. </p>
<p>I have PCOS. I know that pain all too well. Completely wrong region of my stomach. </p>
<p>Honestly, I wish it had been a cyst. At least those I know will just go away after some excruciating pain. But still, they just go away.</p>
<p>That’s the surgery my friend was signed up for before it was decided it was lettuce causing the problem. Fortunately she couldn’t afford the surgery at the time.</p>
<p>Well, let me put this out there.</p>
<p>My gallbladder appeared normal with an ultrasound (i was probed by one from all areas at one point because my doctors were concerned). I ended up getting a HIDA scan (where they inject you with glowy stuff to test the discharge rate of your gallbladder and you have to lay still for an hour and a half). Found out it was only working at 5%. Fun times were had when the doctor that did it said i could “live with it”. My Gi doctor overrided that dicision and stated I needed it removed (at this point in time I could barely move).</p>
<p>Surgery was no big deal. However, I was not back to “normal” activity for about 2 weeks and even then it was slightly hard (such as getting out of bed or a sitting position). </p>
<p>I only have four little scars to show that i had the surgery.</p>
<p>FYI if you do have to have it removed, walk walk and walk some more after you get out of anistisia. The damn gas they use to blow you up travels to your sholder and it hurts like heck.</p>
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<p>True for many IF there are not little complications. My kid had a three week “interruption” to her classes…even though her gall bladder removal was laproscopic…she had gall stones in her bile ducts. This required a second procedure which was (fortunately) also done laproscopically but with very delicate instruments by a specialist in this field. She was in the hospital for a week. Recovery took an additional two but she was able to do some work after a week at home.</p>
<p>Please get that Ultrasound done ASAP.</p>