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“HI EVERYONE
I HAD MY GALLBLADDER REMOVED COUPLE YEARS AGO….ILL SAY THIS SAD TIMES I STILL GO IN M,Y PANTS ,WHEN MY BODY SAYS GOT TO GO ,OMG I HAVE NO CONTROL NUMBER 2…AND ALSO THE DOC SAYS U CAN EAT ANYTHING PLEASE DONT, U HAVE NIO ENZYMES TO BREAK THE FATS DOWN N YES U WILL GAIN WEIGHT ,,AS U WILL FIND U GET STOMACH ACHES TIREDNESS ALSO I GET IT ALL WHEN I DO EAT WRONG FOODS …NO MILK U SHOULD HAVE LOW FAT…RU***E NO GOOD U CANT DIGEST SALADFS REALLY AND I WAS ALWAYS THIN PERSON NOW IT WILL BE VERY HARD TO LOOSE THE WEIGHT…CHEESES NO GOOD SPICY FRIED THE WORSE SO I STICK CHICKEN CHICKEN AVOID WHOLE WHEAT THE BELLY GO GO UP FOR GALLBLADDER REMOVALS WE CANT EAT REALLY WHOLE WHEAT BREAD….I WENT DINNER MY BOYFRIEND ONE NIGHT OMG STUPID ME HAD CREAMY ALFREDO OMG IN THE CHAIR OUT FOR DINNER I DID ALL IN MY7 PANTS NO CONTROL…AND ALSO I ONCE HAD A PINA COLLADA THAT TO OMG RIGHT THROUH ME SO WHEN DOC OR ANYONE SAYS U CAN EAT ANYTHING NO U CANT THAT PART INSIDE U GONE U CAN DIGEST LIKE BEFORE IT ANT THERE SAO HOW COULD U I ALSO AT AGE 8 HAD MY APPENDENCE OUT SO I HAVE WHOLE RIGHT SIDE OUT EVEN WORSE BUT EXCERSIZE EAT NO FATTY STUFF AVCOID DAIRY IF U CAN ALL THAT WILL HAD POUNDS AND DAYS U JUST DONT FELL RIGHT U THINK U R SICK OR TIRED HOPE I HELPED SOME FOLKS FRAN”I had my gall bladder removed about two years ago. I had mild diarrhea at first, and then it got worse. I noticed a trend though. I am currently unable to have any sort of caffeine or spicy food without having raging and painful diarrhea very soon after. It’s a pain in the neck. It’s rediculously sensitive to the caffeine too. I had a finger of some chocolate icing once and I was in the bathroom for about two hours after.
This is my first visit to this site. This reply is to Shelly. Your friend is correct. I had gall bladder surgery May 1997. I had excruciating pain immediately after surgery on the right side when I tried to stand up and actually screamed. They said it was gas because I had a broken bed and had laid wrong until I could get up! It felt worse than labor pains! I complained six months after surgery that I still hurt but was told that it was probably adhesions. In November of 1998, I experienced bad pains on my left side from the back to the front and have had periodic reoccurrences since then. I have revisited the specialist who removed my gallbladder with laproscopic surgery. He is considered an expert in his field in this area. He said there may still be gall stones left behind after the surgery or a clamp may have come loose. He explained further and said he didn’t really want to “go back in” unless the pain got too bad and I asked him to. The most current episode (mild) was last week. Today I visited a new general physician who is going to run tests to see if I have a kidney stone. I suggest you visit your physician or the specialist who performed the surgery. I really believe this is more than a pulled muscle and am hoping to find a solution. Good luck!
“Unfortunately I am in that number of patients that still have digestion problems. My gallbladder was removed 2 years ago. I also had reconstruction of my common bile duct. I can say, however, that the pain and symptoms I experience now are nothing like the gallbladder attacks I had before my gallbladder was removed.
Although you are still experiencing pain, you are probably slowly improving from the results of the surgery. It does take awhile…my surgeon indicated a good 6 months, although you are able to perform the activities of your daily living. My primary care physician’s nurse told me that there are some patients that have no more pain and can eat any foods without distress and others can not. I can not.
I do believe I had and still have other underlying digestive problems in addition to the gallbladder.
I hope some of this helps. I will say, if you are having pains that last more than a few days to contact your surgeon. Also keep a food diary, for your peace of mind, to see just what foods you can and can not tolerate.
Good luck with your recovery!”
“So good to hear that others suffer from the same symptoms! I had my gall bladder out abt 6 yrs ago and I often have “”attacks”” that result in lowr right quadrant pain, feeling bloated, as though food is not digesting, often reflux. I have kept food diaries but there doesn’t seem to be any pattern, or warning.
My Dr. told me that I was probably experiencing problems with small stones and since they did not have the gall bladder to reside in, they had to be passed thorugh the intestines which could be painful (the understatement of the year!)
I do take digestive enzymes and they help a bit. I too have to stay away from red meat as much as possible. Fats are a killer and some processed foods do a number on me as well.
Had I known this would be the case, I may have reconsidered the gall bladder surgery! ”
gosh how much more are millions going to have to suffer with this, 3 mos ago I was a healthy 34 female worked out at the gym, worked , have a 5 year old very active in her school, worked in my garden alot then I started to get nausea every meal then losing weight then started to feel sickly so my family doc said oh you have a virus it will pass, 2 mos later with the same nausea feeling i went to the doc they did a ultrasound and said oh tell you the test results in a few weeks WHAT!!! they put me on aciphex at that time the next day mom rushed me to the emergency room and 8 hours later my gall bladder came out with guarantee from the doc oh it will be better youll be back to normal, a day later came home started eating felt great better then ever 2 weeks later exactly the symptoms came back nausea every meal so i said well as a nurse i did some research on aciphex it was causing some of the symptoms i started having so stopped taking that, 2nd day is today no aciphex made a appt and saw the gastro’s nurse the doc was nto available they put me on zofran for the times I really need it.. hello that would be all the time, doing a upper gi in 6 weeks being i just had surgery i have no pain no bloating just nausea every meal and when i wake up and when I go t sleep which now I have to take tylenol pm every night to go to sleep or else I cant, this has totally ruined my life I have tried to be strong through this but it seems that crying about the pain is my only release i am not in position to go to the gym with how I feel i can ride my bike and take short walks but the nausea has changed my entire life to be non existent no sex life i cant feel good enough to even think about it, i use to go out and play with my daughter and work in my garden that has stopped I sit on the swing and watch her play, i know its only been 3 weeks now since Ihad the surgery but my nausea should be gone i should not be feeling the symptoms of this my family says oh its all in your head..!!! im like yea I want to be like this
thats my problem too since I had my g/b removed. try eating fruits or products that contains resveratrol. I help me so much. Everything was normalized when I take resveratrol. No more poooping with loose bowel and Im getting back to my previous figure. I stopped gaining weight. Product was introduced to me by a friend who is a medical researcher and at the same time an oncologist. am living a normal life now after g/b removal.
I had my gallbladder removed in 1996. I have had difficulty eating every since. There is only a few things I can eat that will not make me sick. I will double over with cramps and find myself in the bathroom. Most of the time I am in the bathroom before I finish a meal. I have lived with this for all these years and it is very hard to deal with. My husband doesn’t understand why I don’t like going out to eat. It is because I have to leave him half way thru dinner or I am rushing him to get me to a bathroom shortly after we leave. I have never done any research on this till now. Any information will be helpful. Thanks
I had my gall bladder removed in Dec. 2008, in Feb.2009 I started having the same pain on my right upper side as I had before surgery. I have had countless ultrasounds and CT scans, results normal. I had an endoscope which showed redness and largenarities (misspelled), I don’t know what that means, but sample was sent to the lab. I have to wait 10 days for those results. I also had a colonoscopy and had one pylop removed also lab and 10 day wait. I was given nexium by my primary Doctor but was on it for only three days due to the prep I had to do. So I called my Doctor to tell him what I had been told and to ask for help. The Dr. I went to in Dec. had given me 2 anitbotics to take untill the blood test came back for ulcers. It was neg. so she told me to quit taking the antibiotics. I found out today that I had H. pylori back in Dec. and the Dr. that did the surgery had wrote that I was being treated for this H. pylori. I have a history of cancer in my family and that really scares me, but I think with the ultrasounds and CT scans and endoscope that would have been found. I have started back on the Nexium today. I stay away from Italian food as that tends to bother me. I can only do so much at a time before the pain get unbearable and I have to lie down or just rest. I have been off work because of this. I sleep but with pain pills so I can get some sleep. I sleep flat on my stomach it’s the only way I can that feels comfortable. I do fine first thing in the morning then after about an hour or less the pain starts and doesn’t lighten any unless I rest. I don’t know what to do except try the Nexium and probably go on the antibiotics for the H., pylori,which is what? Thanks for listening this has helped some by getting it off my chest.
I am getting the same thing. I hade my gallbladder out Oct 15 2010. Since then after I eat fatty foods, ( which I am cutting down on) I get intense pain that starts in my mid abdomin, radiates to my back, and is severe I can not even talk or walk. In fact, I just spent an hour on my office floor in tears. I called my Doc for some answers. After reading things, I think it is from my liver because I am eating food that is too fatty and I dont have enough bile to break down the rest of the food, but let me tell you, this can not be normal. I can not live with this pain on and off forever. Sure I will cut out food that causes the pain, if thats what it is, but as I experiment I will have what I call a flare up. I read flaxseed oil can help, but when this pain starts theres no moving to the herb cabinet.
I do not think that drinking the recommended amount of water would have helped. I drink more than 64oz of water a day and I still have gallbladder problems and need to have it taken out in the near future.
i had mine taken out in 2001, i have had diarrhea all these years. When i first had it taken out everything i ate threw my to the bathroom, over the past 4 yrs it has gone away a little . If i eat greassy food its a free ticket to the bathroom. the cramps keep on tell ur dr to send u bentyle for the cramps. ibs is what ur going to have now. good luck let me kno if u need anything more
I had my gallbladder out, and 1 year later, after another 20 min. procedure for something else, I woke up swollen. Since then I have gone from size 2 to size 10. My belly looks at least 6 months pregnant. I take Citracel and eat shreaded wheat, which help move my bowels. But, I want to be my size again. I am so uncomfortable. I feel like another person is sitting on top of me. I thank God, I don’t have pain, but, I do have Barretts esophogus because of the bile it is causing. I pray your solution works. Please update on how you are doing. Thank you.
“Did the endoscopy or upper GI show any gastritis? Do you have a hiatal hernia? With such strong symptoms, I would have thought something would be found. What dosage of Nexium are you taking?? I just started taking Nexium (40mg) each morning and it seems to be helping. I have dropped the famototine (pepcid AC) which I was taking twice daily. I am hoping the stomach/chest pain/burning stop now. I too had my gall bladder removed last Feb 12. Seemed to cure my chronic indigestion, but these pains never went away. My endoscope did show gastritis and a hiatal hernia. I have been without nighttime pain for 5 nights now, but have continued to have daytime pain. So far today I am okay though…hoping Nexium is doing the trick.
If there is any doubt at all, have a cardiologist rule out heart issues. Heart problems can be as difficult to diagnose as digestive problems. Both can mimic the other. So be sure your heart is okay. ”
I had my gallbladder out about 2 months ago. I have drank a couple times since then. Once I had only beer, and was really pretty drunk but didn’t get sick. Once I had only wine and ended up back in the ER. Last night I had a mixture, wine and beer and didn’t allow myself to go to the ER but I definitely should have. It hurts so bad. It’s just like a gallbladder attack. I actually threw up this morning for quite a while. Not that there was anything to throw up though. It makes me really consider ever drinking again. It’s so bad. I knew it was an option before I drank last night, but hey…I’m single, live in a new state, don’t know anyone and had a bad day…what are my options?
