So sorry RJ - did they find a cause for the pain? I hope it is something you can recover from - instantly is the best, but gradual recovery is the usual way.
the annoying thin seems to be that my bloodwork and body temperature apparently stick to the guide lines they are supposed to be in, even when having a gallbladder going rogue. so all tests suggested liver and kidney and other things were a okay. until I was on the floor in pain.
the gallbladder i did have was twice the size it should have been, lower in the body and based on the doctors description filled with perfectly round and clear as glass stones that x-ray doesn't see but sound like gravel when they flush to body out before installing a drain in my side (oh and apparently any that may remain missed might for small puss spot in my body at any time in what years I remain alive, oh and apparently my liver is both very large and bleeds super easily when they tried working around it)
apparently I also have a auxiliary duct with hard to determine relations to the gall bladder they removed, because it was unclear if I now had half a duct coming from liver side emptying into the body cavity.
after all this was done, and I was in recovery, I turned minion yellow and my blood tests showed elevated liver problems.
meanwhile I'd not gone to the bathroom in 3 days and been backed up even then, so now that my body needed to let off some air left behind by the surgeons, my lower gi was not letting it. Pulling a full Gandalf vs Balrog. so bad that all my muscles clenched and wouldn't let go. so they gave me laxitive in warm prune juice with a milk of magnesia chaser. and that locked my body in a siezure like clench against urgency and need to go and not being able to. the pressure built so high, that my ability to breathe was again down to gasps, my shoulders felt like I'been stabbed as nerves radiated fro mid torso, and finally with out other options topside was the only way out.
I spent about a day and a half in that state, terrified that the complete siezure level clench and insane pressures may have damaged the healing surgical inscisions. still might have to be honest, we'll see how healing goes.
they went in with an endoscope to check for stones blocking the duct as possible reasons for the yellowing and blood tests. found no obvious stones in the duct (might have dislodged in the above adventures), and suggested that there was no sign the aux bile duct was peeing in the pool so to speak. they did a minor cut to open the end of the duct wide and installed a stent so any stones that were moving around wouldn't get lodged, and cause a flow path that would suck closed and minor pinholes that could leak in the body (though test dies couldn't find any).
and after all that, gandalf went away, and the result in the facilities was black. so now there was bleeding going on in the upper gi. back into endoscope cauterized the inscisions. and then two more days of blood testing and ivs while not eating to see if my bloodwork looked bettter.
and frankly I never got clear answers about what my bloodwork for liver function and blood counts looked like at time of release. I'm bloated, sore, gassy, cramped, haven't slept a good 6 hours in over a week, trying to learn what I can eat now from scratch all over again. with the knowledge that a fall, or picking something up, or the wrong breeze with the wrong pathogen happening at any time in the last week means this could get worse still...
then get home to find that the landlord has moved in a friend, and friends non-english speaking mother of advanced age, into the spare room of the 1950 mobile home on foundation. moved anything of mine in common areas either into boxes in my room or thrown out incomplete crafts or tinkering projects because it's junk if he doesn't understand what it is, and he is neither handy nor artsy, left school for the workforce in his teens, and fried his brains with drugs and alcohol in his 20-40s... I'll be finding out exactly whats been lost for weeks.
