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I had my gallbladder removed in 2000 after an unknown pain from that area had doctors stumped and they saw an enlargement of my gallbladder, so figured it had to come out. After the removal, I TOO had more severe pain in that area and still do ’till this day. I don’t have the pain all time but it come in the form of attacks that can be so severe that I find myself aimlessly pacing and unable to breath without gasping from the severity of it. I used to try to feed the pain and put something in my stomach, like bread, but found a large glass of water can actually curb it; SOMETIMES. I don’t have any medical insurance so I eventually prescribed myself Prilosec OTC and have had good results with that. There are unpleasant things about taking Prilosec over the long term but it keeps the attacks down for the most part. I still have the occasional attack and DO relate the attacks to what’s on my diet. There are trigger foods, including greasy things, but only if I consume them in large quantities. Anything with large amounts of citrus can trigger an attack. Sometimes an empty stomach can trigger an attack if left too long. It’s a very frustating disorder and wish that someone had a cure for it; even a name for it would be good.
“Hi all. This is my first post. I also had my gall bladder removed 2 years ago and the pain has continued. It feels like it was never removed. My symptoms are identical to most of yours. Is there no relief or help?
Jamie”
so glad i found this!! i had mine out in 2004 and just thought i gained weight at first. I always been 105 -110. Now i look 5 months pregnant. skinny everywhere else but this big fat stomach. Not even fat, but sticking out and hard. just thought i was eatign too much even though i dont. i tried losing wieght, excerising, and detoxing. everywhere i lose weight but my stomach! i was talking to a friend who said she had the same bloatingness. so i looked it up and it seems like it is common. I went on a diet (prior to reading this) with limited red meat and it seems to be going down (the bloatness).
I am 22 years old my normal weight is 98 _100lbs ive had two kids a 4year old and a 4 month old natural childbirth ans not one mark or acratch on me i had gallbladder removal surgery yesterday i look 5 months pregnant i will not tolerate this expecially since i was forced into the surgery against my bwtter judgement are any of u this young or were this small before surgery bc i wanba know if i stand a chance i rdfuse to go wT i gone through and loose it all now ive worked hard to not become overweight and scar free and ill be damed if a medical procedure i had to have is gonna mess me up now
“I had my gb out when i was 21, i am now 30 and am struggling like mad to loose weight even though i try and manage a diet with a high protein and low fat diet and a decent exercise routine. (And for all anyone who says ‘muscle weighs more then fat’, correct but my body fat index does not shift)
I will tell you that after your surgery you will loose weight, i lost tons, thinnest ive ever been, then i gained allot more and ever since then my weight has been pretty steady but i struggle like crazy to loose any weight, it is possible but very hard work.
It does stand to reason that the gb helps with the fat digestion so by not having it it can be harder to loose weight. I like the earlier suggestion of digestive aids and i am going to try that, but is glad to know there is a reason im struggling so much to loose this weight.”
hi, i had my gallbladder removed on the 15th june and i suffer from watery yellow stools after eating i looked it up and apparently its called steatorrhoea look it up eating less fat and things can help 🙂
“Hi – I am afraid I have bad news. I had my gall bladder out in 2002. I have been in constant pain since. I read an article that said up to %40 of all people who have their gall bladder removed have continuing pain. I am still looking to find any research on this. The pain is under the right ribs, some in my shoulders like described by others. One year the pain was so bad that I could not eat. I lived on fruit and vegetable juice. I lost 70lbs in one year. I have constant nausea. I hope that this turns out better for you – please avoid if you can a test called and ERCP. I ended up getting pancreatitis after this test (one of those “”rare”” occurances). Everytime I tell them I have pain under my ribs and tendness on the ribs I lose the doctors – I have been told that ribs don’t hurt, that maybe I had a broken rib, or that I should get breast reduction surgery. One ER doctor told me that if I went back to work that would solve my problem.
Thankfully the diarrhea is better. I take a medication called desipramine which has made all the difference for the diarrhea. It didn’t help the pain, but no more living on the toilet! I hope that you will find relief soon. I hope this will not be a continuing problem for you. Don’t let them tell you its stress or in your head. There are many many of us with the same problem and we are not all crazy.”
“true i was told the same thing that its for elderly people and i happened to get gallstones when i was 14. i found out in december and got it removed in march.
i too gain weight out of no where and loose it,
one day ill weigh ten pounds more and another i’ll weight less.
its pretty weird.”My husband has been having severe pain and vomiting since July. His pain starts in the center of his chest and moves back and forth to his right side and thru to his back. The doctor told him he had H-pylori, and treated him for that. Then they took out his gallbladder which was not functioning. He is still in contant pain and can not keep any food down. he has had (2) CT scans, bloodwork, ultrasound, hepatolite scan, gastric emptying, colonostamy, stomach scope, and (2) biopsies. His surgeon told us yesterday that there is nothing surgically wrong with him. His gastro doctor says he can’t find anything wrong. Has anyone else had the same problem, the doctors around here can’t find the problem.
“Hi – I am so excited about finding this subject. I use to think I was crazy that for some unknown reason I was gaining weight, regardless of eating/exercise.
I am almost 36, had my gallbladder/appendix removed almost six years ago in the late summer of 2003, following my second daughter, (that seems to be the norm for some women in the forums). I had lost almost all of my pregnancy weight except maybe ten pounds, had my GB out and slowly gained back all that I had lost, but figured it was just because I lost it too fast and not exercising enough now that I was older (I was now thirty and it had been over twelve years since my first daughter was born – big adjustment).
I had normally been 125/130 lbs. 5′ 5″” prior to GB and did gain a lot during my pregnancy due to the fact that I get extremely sick and throw up 24/7 the first five months of preg. and if I don’t keep lots of carbs in would be visiting the bathroom and couldn’t do that at work, lol. I have always exercised regularly, lots of walking, gym, ate pretty healthy, maybe once in a while a piece or two of pizza, but nothing crazy like chips/choc on a reg basis.
Currently just shot up from 180 that I worked very hard to get to, up to 210, now at 205 again, (that sounds crazy to me, never thought I’d get out of my normal range of 130). I had a third daughter in 2005 and that really put me over the edge – no sleep, hardly having time to eat/exercise – no energy, etc. About a year and a half ago I went from 208 to the 180 (without trying, cause I had gave up, amazing), the only thing I was doing differently was that I had a new job and not able to eat at normal times, so I ate consistently every couple hours, seemed to back a huge difference and I lost about twenty five to thirty pounds. I try so hard to remember what I did differently – think it was that I ate every few hours, smaller meals, like a handful of nuts, protein, lots of water and stairs.
I have been reading since yesterday and plan on trying the bile salts/beta plus, liver cleanse – have already been on probiotics and that has helped a lot with the IBS symptoms. I also plan on trying to incorporate some ACV (apple cider vinegar and maybe some backing soda – the good old remedies that have been around for years and see what happens). I had almost given up on eating healthy and exercising since it had not made any difference. I am now ready to begin again and will try all that’s on the forum and some yoga and lots of water and see what happens – especially the eating every two hours and stick with it. Thanks to all that have posted here – I will definitely be checking in and will post my results monthly. I will not get on the scale again until next month, as to not discourage myself. It took time to put it on and will take time for my body to notice and heal with the supplements. I believe raw foods are the best to add and definitely juicing, which I will do when I can afford a good juicer, heard Breville is great. I like the Health Ranger – Mike Adams, naturalnews.com – the articles on general health are wonderful. Good luck to all of you on this forum, the best way to knock this out is to inform all that will listen, it only take one strong blog to have people take notice. I’m not a blogger, but I know they are powerful.
Danielle”
“Hello,
I totally understand all of YOU! I had my gallblader removed 8 years ago and the sympstoms only get worse! I am currently taking PROBIOTIC supplements(good bacteria) and digestive ENZYMES to help breakdown of food into nutrients. These two together will work wonders!!! I don’t have to be scared of leaving the house for long periods of time!!! The only thing is that if I forget the dose one day, I go back to the same thing.
Good luck and blessings to you all.”
“I had my GB removed in december 2010. ive had slightly odd symptoms as everyone else here and its been progressing since. it wasnt until about a month afterward i started feeling odd.
I would get uncontrollable jittery feeling on my insides that lasted anywhere from 20 minutes to an entire day. it was all over my abdomen. it didnt interfere in much, but if it was bad, it would wake me up. my doc attributed it to post gall surgery and the weirdness some people go through after having an organ removed. he said to let it go and deal with it for a couple of months and see if it subsides, and well sure enough, it did. it ended up associating itself to only when my bowels would change or hormonal changes at the end of a female cycle. this month, it was gone and it hasnt returned since. (thank goodness!) i think my doc was right on about that.
ive had ‘funkiness’ under my ribcage. not so much in my sternum, but if i push deep there i will feel pain, other than that, no pain right there. it feels almost like sandpaper some days – not painful, just a ‘there’ feeling. i would have some days where i would get a pain, and shortly later i would have diarrhea that would be yellowish but sometimes normal color.
2 weeks ago i started having quick ouch pains that would subside to a dull funky ache from the top of my ribcage (basically where i felt my gall bladder was before it was removed) down to the bottom on my side. it would come with slight indigestion and a little runny bowel. i recently pulled a muscle (im pretty sure thats what it was) in my right side of my back on top of my rib cage. it hurt for a few days but some alieve and heating pad, that went away. 7 days later it was back and i had the front rib pain with it. i dont know if it was associated with eachother, maybe just weird timing, but i mentioned it to my sister who had her gall removed years ago. she said to go to the doc and look into the possiblility of fatty liver disease because having your gall out can sometimes lead to that. maybe, i dont really buy that theory, but im going for the test anyway since its my around my rib cage that im having discomfort, so be it, i will deal with blood work and a ultrasound.
when she had hers removed, she hasnt had a normal bowel since. same with my brother. they run to the bathroom minutes after eating a meal, sometimes are constipated, both have told me that i will never have a normal bowel again, even if it appears to get normal, it will never be normal completely again.
i decided to do a 3 day liver flush. i would suggest this to anyone who is looking for a ‘cleansed’ feeling in their abdomen. so far so good, but i have been pooping yellow for 3 days! i havent had this since right before my GB surgery and for the 2 weeks following. hopefully it toxins flushing, i read to expect this nonetheless.
im one of the lucky ones who can alternate alieve and motrin to get rid of the discomfort without any side effects of taking them.
i do get these ‘pains’ associated with diet. i cant eat any green veggies, beans, fatty red meats, or anything greasy without causing discomfort.i may have developed a lactose intolerance due to this. i can manage to absorb the extra bile in my intestines by eating a baked potato like every other day. it helps stop up a bit of the runny poop and make the ‘spots’ feel better.
pre surgery i had an u/s and a ct scan and everything showed normal so im not thinking fatty liver, but you never know. i definitly feel clearer in my head and my stomach area since starting this cleanse. its worth a shot. it also got rid of that bloated feeling that some get associated with an ‘attack’.
i know i have to exercise more and get my belly down to a normal size and my weight down to not obese… i had 2 kids back to back so thats where my weight now came from but i was a yoyo dieter before. im doing nutrisystem, which has been killing me with the gas on top of post GB gas! i drink occasionally, once a week with the hubby, casual 5 beers on a saturday night without any adverse reactions, wine makes me constipated sometimes and runny others. its our thing, and i asked my doc if it would be ok, and he said its ok and it doesnt put me in the ‘drinker’ category that they would worry about liver problems being caused by it.
im trying milk thistle to help with aiding liver function too and that has seemed to help as well, well, thats at least until it comes back (hopefully it wont!)
we have to think here…. if you have elevated liver enzymes, which most of us probably will, our intestines absorbes all the good stuff and bad stuff, why wouldnt it absorb liver bile enzymes causing those levels to elevate as a result? hopefully now my bowels will go back to ‘normal’ for me after this cleanse and i will update after i speak to my doc about having the liver tests done!
again, sorry so long!!!!!!”
Well, I had my gallbladder removed in 1994, and had pains for years after it was removed. Had a test done at Duke in 2005 to check the pancreas because of a study I am on,, and was told pancreas fine, but, a huge stone had been left in the bile duct. So, needless to say, had to have that removed. Hence the pain. No more! Amen!
Reading your post made me feel a little better–my symptoms match yours almost exactly. I had my gallbladder out in in 1993, was diagnosed with IBS 2 years later, and I still had no idea the 2 events were related until I read this forum. I’ve been pretty lucky the last 11 years–not much has been going on. But suddenly I feel like I swallowed a wolverine and it’s turning around and around in there chewing on everything in sight: gut, mid-back, side back, right side, left side, etc. etc. I’m going in for an endoscopy tomorrow and I hope the GI specialist is helpful. Anyway, I hope someone gives you a good answer. I think I will also try the calcium–I didn’t know about that, either. Good luck!
“Get tested for food allergies. It may not be the cause of your pain but you never know. I’m thankful an ER doc suggested I do that!
Long story, but I had my gallbladder out and was still having horrible stomach pains which felt like gallbladder attacks frequently. I also had stomach cramps more often than not.
I found out I have severe allergies to beef and pork and moderate to mild allergies to other foods. When I eat beef or pork I have horrific abdominal pain which feels exaclty like a gallbladder attack.
I had been suffering through that for the last 10 yrs…I cut out all beef and pork over the summer and I have not had a stomach pain, twinge, cramp…etc. since then unless I’ve inadvertently eaten it (cross contamination).
It is so freeing to not deal with the discomfort and pain. I feel like a new person.”
