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My gallbladder was removed in August of 2008. There was a “honeymoon period” during which I felt great, was at my perfect weight of 135, then I was hospitalized with pancreatitis, then I began to bloat and gain belly weight (never had a weight issue in my life… ) and last year I was finally diagnosed with gastroparesis. I take Reglan without too many unwanted side effects. Bloating, nausea, vomiting, constipation and weight gain in my upper abdomen are my chief complaints. Oh, and I now weigh over 175 pounds. This is a disgusting disorder. I may visit Dr. Snape, a motility specialist at UCSF, if things do not improve. I’ve spent 5 years trying to figure out what is going on. I have a severe gastric emptying issue. Food just stays stuck in my gut forever. I’d love to hear from others, and gain suggestions on what the heck I can eat without blowing up like Humpty Dumpty. I’m simply appalled, listless, tired all the time, and am now on disability. I teach English online to make ends meet. My life has become very burdensome, and my body image is in the trash can. I’d been a fit athlete/dancer all my life until my gallbladder was removed. For a while I took bile salts and I wonder if anyone has any info/advice on supplements, including bile salts. I must see a nutritionist, I cannot live like this. Love and light to my fellow sufferers. ~ Beth
I had my gall bladder removed last July and had gastroparesis – like symptoms before the surgery. Turned out removing my GB didn’t solve my GI problems only made them 100X worse. I have not been diagnosed with GP – but do have a host of issues I’m dealing with; luckily my GI problems have started to settle down now. I have neuropathy that’s causing issues. But that’s another story..
I can agree to disagree scvetrran. I am currently living with severe food allergies where an allergist can’t find any foods that I am allergic to on any of his tests! So how is this happening? Please explain. This is due to a permeable gut lining that the bacterial overgrowth caused!
I have an article from the August 2009 Scientific American Magazine that talks about the relationship between a leaky gut, gluten, celiac disease and the Immune System. They mention trying to use a certain drug to help heal the gut lining but haven’t found one that works. So I guess the doctor’s know it exists but because there’s no drug they don’t have to really acknowledge leaky gut exists. So I disagree with you.
Integrative Medicine doctor’s are regular doctor’s who also have additional training in Holistic/ healthier methods of treating disease. They have more training than the regular doctor’s plus are more educated in nutrition. If it wasn’t for them I wouldn’t be here today. Mainstream medicine wouldn’t have ever acknowledged I had a yeast overgrowth but a bacterial overgrowth that they would have only treated with antibiotics. Patient’s will never get better just eliminating the bacterial overgrowth without getting rid of the yeast overgrowth first. They will get more sick. And there’s a systematic way to do this! If you’re bloated after eating, your lower abdomen is swelling after eating, then you have a yeast overgrowth. Then the bacterial overgrowth occurs and if this is allowed to continue then damage to this intestinal lining will occur, then autoimmune disease comes next.
I do have a regular Internal Medicine and Gastroenterologist but only use them for regular annual tests. But I also supplement my care occasionally with Integrative Medicine doctor’s. I have a board certified Gastroenterologist in Beverly Hills and also a board certified Internal Medicine doctor. I truly believe a person needs both in the world will live in today!Diabetes is an autoimmune disorder but it is not caused by a leaky gut. As far as I, and science, is concerned the best description for IM would be a doctor who believes in using non scientific methods. use alternative methods that have never been proven in studies to work. Typically they are not much different than snake oil salesman.
I will stick with the real doctors who use methods proven to work in the majority of patients and not just the placebo effect.
I had my Gall bladder removed in 12/08 and a couple of months later when I tried eating some ground flax seeds I ended up in the ER with really high liver enzymes. So I stopped eating fats until I had my sphincter of oddi cut in 6/09.
After having my sphincter cut I continued to have the sphincter pressure and pains in the upper abdomen and I told my stupid doctor’s this!
What I found was when the bacterial and yeast overgrowth was bad in the intestines the sphincter would spasm especially when eating something that required bile.
My doctor’s never repeated the Breath Hydrogen test to see if I had a severe bacterial overgrowth plus they didn’t know how to check for a fungal/yeast overgrowth either in the gut. They aren’t trained to check or believe that yeast overgrowth exists but it does. Believe me as I have yeast coming out my anus, ears, mouth and eyes. They ruined my life!
Only the I.M. doctor’s understand this and if you continue using mainstream medicine you will become sicker and sicker….I guarantee you of this. Mainstream medicine are good at removing things but as far as looking at the whole picture and body they fail at this….and they get paid to treat patient’s this way.
Seriously, we need Integrative Medicine as our primary doctor’s and mainstream medicine as an adjunct! They are good for emergencies, small things, imaging studies and surgeries. These are my strong feelings from what I have dealt with in my life.
If I were you all I would be consulting with an I.M Gastroenterologist about my situation and getting another opinion before having the gall bladder removed or sphincter of oddi cut. The problem could just be an overgrowth of yeast and/or bacteria in the intestinal flora causing poor painful digestion.
I am curious what your symptoms are for GP because maybe they’re what I am feeling all the time. I get terrible bloating and gas. This is because there’s an overgrowth of yeast in the small intestines. If you’re nauseous too this is an overgrowth of yeast. Bacteria will follow yeast when there’s a yeast overgrowth. Have any of you had a Breath Hydrogen test where you drink Lactulose? The lactulose is sugar basically and will make the yeast grow. What do you think happens when you add sugar to yeast? It will expand! Right! So if you’re eating anything with sugar, fructose, etc. you will be miserable. You need to be on a Candida diet, one without carbs like pastas, high glycemic numbers. Meat and vegetables and eggs. No breads, grains,etc.
Hope this helps!Do you know that Diabetes is an autoimmune disease? It’s caused by a leaky permeable gut lining. Seriously!
When your gall bladder doesn’t work properly you don’t digest your food properly…if it’s loaded with stones it can’t work properly secreting bile into the common bile duct ending up in the upper part of the small intestine to help break down your food.Think about it and educate yourselves please as your western medicine doctor’s just want the money to remove your gall bladder, then when it’s removed what then to they do for you?
If you need the gall bladder out most definitely have it removed if it’s non functioning, or diseased. If it’s still functioning then leave it in. Once it’s removed you can’t go back and you will most definitely need the help from an Integrative Medicine doctor and Registered Holistic Dietician to help you to digest your food better.
Having an overgrowth of yeasts and bacteria in the gut lining is damaging to the intestinal lining and will set you up for a leaky gut thus causing autoimmune diseases. Diabetes, Lupus, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Fibromyalgia, MS, GP etc. This is mentioned in the Gut Solutions book mentioned above in my prior message.
GP is a result of poor digestion of food is what I have been told and is an autoimmune related disease.
Do your own research and you will discover the links between GP and the immune system.
People please remember that sphincter of oddi usually is related to an imbalance of your gut flora. The normal yeasts get out of balance and so you also get a bacterial overgrowth. This overgrowth of yeasts and bacteria cause the sphincter to spasm. If you can get your gut flora in balance then the sphincter issue will go away.
Why do you think God created us with a Gall bladder? Because it’s a necessary organ to have unless it’s found on a HIDA scan that the Gall bladder is non functioning or not functioning well. When the Gall bladder isn’t working well what do you think happens when digesting your food. It doesn’t get digested well and so the imbalance in the gut flora.
You will need an Integrative Medicine Gastroenterologist or regular Integrative medicine doctor to help you with getting the gut flora in balance. Main stream medicine can not! They just know how to kill off the bad bacteria and not the yeast overgrowth. It’s kind of tricky to do and that’s where you’d need someone like the I.M. doctor.
There’s a doctor Gerard Mullin at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore Maryland that is an I.M. Gastroenterologist and there’s one in Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Farshid Sam Rahbar. Dr. Rahbar does SYKPE consults if you’re unable to travel. He has helped me tremendously where regular Gastroenterologists can’t!
I Now have a damaged intestinal lining from having the dead gall bladder in my body for 3 years so I have a leaky, permeable gut lining. This sets a person up for autoimmune issues now.
Dr. Mullin has a number of books out that you can purchase from Amazon on Gastroenterology and there’s another book by Brenda Watson called Gut Solutions.
My doctor believes that GP is caused from a leaky permeable gut lining. Basically an autoimmune related issue.
I hope this information helps you all!
I honestly believe that all my problems are related. First my gallbladder quit working (no stones), then one year later my sphincter of oddi and now my stomach. I have to wonder if there is a smooth muscle disorder they have not recgnized yet because they are all looking at each event seperately. I would be willing to bet that most people with GP pain have oddi dysfunction. Once they fixed that on me, the only GP symptoms I faced were/ are Nausea, fullness and bloating.
Has anyone experienced something that, the only way to discribe what I am feeling, every time I eat anything, it feels like a rubber band being snapped! Also anything anytime I eat, I fall asleep. None of this happened prior to having my gallbladder removed. Right after I was brused from chest to hips, it looked like I was beaten not operated on. My navel incision keeps splitting open, stuff comes out,(infection) my Dr. told me it is NOT infection even though my temp was 100.1 they said it that is normal and I know it is not normal! My normal and I am 52years old, I know my body, my normal temp is 97.8,96.5 I run low. I was thin before this whole thing happened,but since July 2012, toward the end of the month prior to July 30th being taken to a hospital I was unable to eat or hold down even water for 9 days. I lost a lot of weight, I am now under 100 lbs, I weighed 110-112 before. Everything smells weird,tastes horrible,I have no appetite, I’m nausious all the time, then the whole snapping thing,whatever that is,makes it so uncon=mfortable to eat anything. It will go on till the food is done digesting past the stomach. In the stomach, it will snap,snap,snap,, over and over for hours. it is not massive pain,but it is mild in pain,and it just sucks! Has anyone experienced a weird snap feeling after eating? Anyone? or is this just some other weird thing…
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I am hoping i might be able to get some ideas here before they deccide to do some embarrising type of diagnostic test on me.. here is a bit of my history.. 3 weeks ago i had Gallbladder surgery.. i had an attack one time.. wierd thing is he said i was packed with Gallstones and full of infection.. but i only had pain one time? so i have the surgery.. they send me home the next day. day after im running a temp so back i go to the emergency room. im thinking they will give me antibiotics and send me home.. nope.. they hook me up..(after digging around for a vein. sigh) then make me drink this nasty stuff that tastes like chlorine.. a contrast they said for a cat scan.. had to drink 3 cups over 4 hours.. turns out i had double pnumonia.. and was one sick puppy.. they admit me.. and of course they get me on 2 different types of iv antibiotics and albuterol inhalation treatments. after my iv fails 4 times in 24 hours they hook me up to a picc line… i did get the runs after the surgery only after i drank that nasty stuff.. and that was the only reason.. so far since i got that out of my system.. i have a hard time going #2 its not a normal constipation.. its softer than normal.. but not too soft to be considered the runs..
i had an xray.. and another ccat scan and both show i am paccked full.. yet i have to well.. strain to start things going.. the only other time i had the runs was after the barrium i had to drink for the second cat scan.. and that lasted only 4 hours.. doc said my gut has sounds.. but for some reason.. its not telling my boddy to evacuate.. i have gone.. but only after i sit and push and sit.. sigh.. ive tried miralax.. didnot work.. is there anything i should be watching out for? btw.. its not pain pills. i have them.. but rarely take them.. and have not taken any yet since i got back from the hospital.. i dont feel mucch like eating. but i force myself to hopeing that it will get things going.. i even eat the fatty foods.. and raw oatmeal and milk that usually would get me going in hopes that things will get going…. and nothing.. im stumped.. on a side note.. not sure if it has anything to do with this problem of mine. but i have had 10 years ago.. 2 back surgeries. 4 ruptured disks… and they wanted to fuse but at time i said no.. i have bacck problems again.. and wondering. can anything be pinched that will cause the large intestine part to say.. im on vacation? anything else should i ask my docc. ideas i can toss thier way to get the old brain.. (and other things) going.. thanks all in advance.”“The shoulder pain is from the anesthesia. It will pass! I had my surgery on 3/3/09 and the only answer I can give anyone is: CUT OUT THE FAT! I fortunately haven’t had any diarrhea but my symptoms had been ongoing for so long, I actually changed my diet about one month before the surgery so my body has adjusted to eating non-fat! About 3 days after my surgery I had tons of GAS which is common after this or any belly-button surgery. Get a bottle of Maximum strength Maalox (I like the Berry flavored) this will immediately give you relief from the gas. I also sent my boyfriend out to buy a chili dog for me. After eating half of it (it was really gross cause like I said, I haven’t eaten like that for awhile) the gas ripped. LOL! I really felt better. I was up and out of the house 4 days after my surgery shopping. My belly button is still tender but I feel really good and I’ve lost 10 lbs in about one month.
Eat whole grains, fruits, lots of vegetables and drink plenty of water. The doctors tell you that you can resume your regular diet – YOU CAN’T – unless of course you want to feel miserable. The other day I wanted to test the fat theory so I bought a pork taco. I vomited and was nauseated all night long. It’s just not worth it so I’m exercising and sticking to a healthy meal. If I had eaten this way all along I would have never had my GB out! Life lessons– hmmmmmm! ”
i had my gall bladder removed about a year ago at age 22, it just wasnt functioning, it would continue to contract and wouldnt release for HOURS causing extreme pain. After my surgery i felt better pain wise but i was just waiting for my energy level to increase. Well i still feel drained all the time, i have an extreme intolerence for alcohol, and no matter what i eat i feel as though my body is not absorbing any of the nutrients. I lost 12 lbs before my surgery due to the pain i would experience every time i ate. My family all said i looked so sickly at 5’7′ 113lbs. i looked forward to getting my energy back and regaining my healthy physique. But still to this day i am constantly plagued with fatigue, hard time concentrating, and constantly going to the bathroom. As a result i still havent put on a single pound and am still be told by family that i look ill. I have been into the doctors several times and they tell me this is all a normal part of recovery. I dont miss the pain one bit but i must say i miss my old lifestyle, so if you dont have to have it removed i would hold off as long as possible. for me its been an uphill battle both ways.
Hi everyone…after reading your posts I know that I am not alone. I had my gallbladder out in April, and although I absolutely cannot eat fat or I get an “attack”, the main problem is weird. The main problem is that I get bloated, extremely rotten egg/sulphur smelling burps with bad upper stomach cramps. It is awful. Nausea, too. Anyone know what this is? I’ve had negative CT scans, etc…my UGI showed narrowed pylorus. Emails are fine. Thanks! Kim
I was diagnosed with a non-functioning gallbladder with no stones and had it removed this past January. I went to Cleveland Clinic and found out I have peripheral neuropathy and celiac disease. NOW I finally understand why my gallbladder failed with no stones!
Thank you Thank you Thank you All of you wonderful people! I’ve telling people for years that my gallbladder surgery is what has led to my uncontrollable weight gain and no one especially doctors truly believe me. I had mine removed almost 14 years ago a month after my son was born. I had never been skinny but I was always in control when I chose to take control and lose weight. After the surgery I started gaining at such an alarming rate and I tried to eat perfectly and exercise and I just kept gaining. Within 5 years I was up 120 lbs. I finally got desperate (after a doctor actually said I had hand to mouth disease!!) and got some diet pills at the vitamin shop that contained ephedra. Well I felt fantastic because I was on SPEED! I walked, danced, yoga, tai bo all day long. I didn’t have an appetite and I sometimes couldn’t sleep so I’d walk a few miles in the middle of the night. I lost 100lbs over 2 years time. Then they took it off the market. I was so ANGRY! That was about 6 years ago and I have trained for 2 half marathons and walked 13.1 miles in each of them and I am a gardener so my job has my body working all the time. I eat loads of veggies and hardly any bad stuff. And I have gained 60lbs. back. I have asked countless doctors to help and they look at me like they expect me to binge on 5 hamburgers on the way home. They don’t have any respect for my problem. And now because of you I know I’m not alone. I am going to try bile salts and I’m going to take these messages to my doctor and shove them down her throat! Thanks!
