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Question About Potatoes
February 26, 2012 | Pinkbell

Posted on 02/26/2012 1:40:11 PM PST by Pinkbell

I have to have an ultrasound of my gallbladder in the morning. Tonight I can only eat fruits and vegetables. WebMD said to eat fat free meal. I was wondering if potato is considered a vegetable and would be safe to eat in some soup? I have found conflicting things on the internet.

Thanks for your help.


TOPICS: Food
KEYWORDS: gallbladder; potato
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To: entropy12

Gall bladder removal is now being done with laproscopic techniques. One of my designers just had this done, and was back to work a few days later. The less invasive procedure has a much shorter recovery time.


41 posted on 02/26/2012 3:54:05 PM PST by Fred Hayek (FUBO, the No Talent Pop Star pResident.)
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To: Pinkbell

If you get a diagnosis for gb removal get a 2nd opinion, differnt doctor, different hospital. Gall Bladder surgery is often taken out on a whim, since you can live w/o a gall bladder. But it can be serious surgery w/complications. Unless you are in excruciating pain, wait.
I was diagnosed with gall stones about 20 years ago, they were going to do surgery, by that time the pain stopped. I haven’t had any gall bladder problems since then.


42 posted on 02/26/2012 4:00:33 PM PST by FreedomGuru (Oil is as natural as daises and rainbows.)
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To: Pinkbell

“VEGETABLE” is an invented classification, assigned to certain foods by custom and common assent. Thus, for example, potatoes (tubers), turnips and radishes, etc. (roots), and tomatoes (true, seed-bearing fruits) are collectively dubbed “vegetables” and marketed as such.

The nutritive content, specific chemical composition and physiological effects of a food are factors (and no doubt there are others) that should drive decisions regarding consumption of a particular food from a plant source, rather than whether or not it falls within the range of the over-generalized “vegetable” category of foods.


43 posted on 02/26/2012 4:06:10 PM PST by Elsiejay (in)
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To: FreedomGuru

Excellent advice. And it’s not necessarily the surgery to remove but the life without it. God gave us a GB for a reason; it stores excess bile to break down fats, etc. If you can ‘cure’ yourself with a very cheap, effective product why not do it and keep what God gave ya:)


44 posted on 02/26/2012 4:08:12 PM PST by spacejunkie2001
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To: MayflowerMadam

There’s alot of speculation that it’s actually the honey that causes the problems with the teeth, not the ACV. Be sure to take higher doses of a good magnesium, which stores in your teeth, and they will be much stronger.


45 posted on 02/26/2012 4:09:57 PM PST by spacejunkie2001
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To: Pinkbell

Potayto? Potahto?

I’d tell the doctor to call the whole thing off.


46 posted on 02/26/2012 4:11:16 PM PST by Larry Lucido (My doctor told me to curtail my Walpoling activities.)
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To: goodwithagun

:)

Mainstream medicine is almost as bad as mainstream media :|

No offense necessarily intended to any MD’s on FR, BUT...no one is really trying to cure anyone; only to treat symptoms. And, there are alot of cures out there for all kinds of maladies, mostly from minerals which I’m a huge advocate of taking.


47 posted on 02/26/2012 4:12:09 PM PST by spacejunkie2001
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To: Pinkbell

If they don’t find gallstones in you, please have your pancreas examined, with a CT scan and/or MRI. Pancreatic cysts can cause similar digestive symptoms as gallstones.


48 posted on 02/26/2012 5:22:46 PM PST by toothfairy86
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To: toothfairy86

Thanks. I’ll talk to my doctor about doing that.


49 posted on 02/26/2012 6:28:39 PM PST by Pinkbell
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To: Pinkbell
The reason you are required to leave off any fatty foods prior to your ultrasound is that you want the GB to be distended so there will be significant opportunity to see the stones contrasted against a 'watery' matrix. Eating anything fatty stimulates the hormone cholecystokinin which then stimulates the smooth muscle in the wall of the GB to contract, thus emptying the GB. Therefore you do not want to stimulate this action prior to the ultrasound study.

Beware of people telling you to avoid surgery if you have cholelithiasis. Should you push a stone from the GB into the common bile duct it can result in obstrucion of the liver and/or pancreas. This will lead to jaundice and possible pancreatitis. Pancreatitis is a very dangerous medical condition. If one has obstructive pancreatitis due to a retained stone, the obstruction must be relieved. One of the most feared complication of pancreatic obstruction is acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis where the walls of the blood vessels are 'digested' by proteolytic enzymes manufactured in the pancreatits. Autodigestion leads to very bad outcomes. The uncommon condition of acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis has a very high mortality rate as well as profound and life-long complication. There are a few who tell you to get a second opinion. Do it. Get 3 or 4, but get them from people who deal with the problem routinely.

50 posted on 02/26/2012 7:28:31 PM PST by Texas Songwriter (Ia)
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To: Texas Songwriter

Thank you. That was very informative. I am hoping they don’t find anything, but if they do, I’ll listen to the medical advice.


51 posted on 02/26/2012 7:59:32 PM PST by Pinkbell
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To: Fred Hayek

You are not kidding about laproscopy! So...I go to see the surgeon for post-op visit and he tells me “yours is the last operation I did the old fashion way..now on it will be laproscopic”! I muttered something like thanks a lot. It was a 3 week recovery from the painful abdominal incisions!

But even with laproscopy, it is still a serious operation because gall bladder is adjacent to very vital organs such as the pancreas and liver.


52 posted on 02/26/2012 10:03:29 PM PST by entropy12 (Islam is intolerant of every other religion. Most tolerant religion? The oldest one.)
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