It is advised to take painkillers for two or three days following the surgery (all patients receive a painkiller prescription). Sutures are removed seven to ten days after the surgery.

The laparoscopic method has become a routine surgery for removing gallstones. The surgery results are good in most of the patients. Two weeks’ sick leave is recommended following the surgery. Afterwards, only minimum limitations concerning your diet and exercise have to be observed.

Most of the patients that underwent gallstone surgery will not need physiotherapy. What they do need is close monitoring of the wound-healing process by the surgeon. It is reccomended to massage the scars a few times a day with oily cream to help the tissue heal.

The most inconvenient complication following gallstone surgery is an injury of the bile ducts. Another surgery may be needed and the quality of the patient’s life may be affected. Early post-operative bleeding is also possible: in this case, a revision surgery may be needed.

Later complications after the surgery are hernias in the area of trocar incisions (in 1–2% of patients). These are caused mainly by rapid movements in the early post-operative period – again, a revision surgery is needed.