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Since I had my gb out, I’ve had trouble breathing. I noticed no one mentioned that here. I have neither gained or lost weight. I had a gastric bypass 7 years ago and I’m wondering how these two are going to jive together. I don’t know how two things that restrict and don’t process fat are going to do to me. I ate cheese pizza last night w/o any consequences, so, I don’t know. I only ate a little though, and stopped when I felt full, which is normal for me due to the gastric bypass. I have gained weight since I started having the pain for the gb 5 months ago, and am frustrated by this, as I eat very little. Anyway, this forum has given me a lot of info I needed. Thanks.
“Hi !
Been reading all the msgs! I am 67 yrs old,,had my gall bladder removed Feb 2001.
I still have had indigestion,or IBS like symtoms off and on. I went to GNC health store,got Super enzymes in a “”blue cobalt “” bottle,I takeo ne with each meal,and also the white and blue Pro-biotics,Acidphadoplis caps. I take one a day. They work faNTASTIC! i ALSO TAKE MY USUAL nEXIUM 40MG CAPS. i REWALLY HAVE TO WATCH
what I eat! I can’t seem to eat any type beans,broccolli,cabbage,,milk products,.
I do a lot of reading,I will say to everyone,do not drink Diet cola,regular pop! Its terrible for your l liver or kidneys! A natural pathic dr on tv ,said its best to leave all bicarbonated drinks alone. I also found, coffe aggravates my intestines,stomach! So I drink mostly bottled water,ice tea,some juice. I now also have to watch my blood sugar level,so I use Sweet and Low sweetner. The best all natural sweetner,””STEVIA””,which can be gotten at any health food store! I stick to Salmon,fish,chicken. very litltlebeef! Everytime UI eat ground beef,roast,steak,.I get gas problems. Could be the steroids they feed the animals. I suggest if possible,best to go organic!
Best Regards,
SweetGranny11″I had my gallbladder removed 18 yrs ago now. Everyone once in a while you can get minor discomfort if you eat certain foods but it is nothing at all like it was way back then, no worries time heals all things![:D]
After reading cranistans post it was a breath of fresh air. I am so sick of doctors having no clue on how to help and other users saying “just eat right, you will be fine”. I had never been over 200 lbs until after my gall bladder surgery. Mysteriously it shot up to EXACTLY 30 lbs more. The doc threw his hands up and said he didn’t know. When I asked him why he didn’t gain any weight after his surgery he replied “everyone is different”. Here it is 2 years after my surgery and no one had any answers. So far cranistan has been the most helpful. I decided to take his suggestions and so far it seems to help about 80%. Here is what I have done and currently modifying as needed: (some of the things below I didn’t do beforehand but thought it would be helpful to others if it’s listed) Things I can’t eat — – bread – fast food – processed frozen ready made meals – fried foods – carbonated drinks(includes ginger ale or other clear carbonated drinks) – milk – cheese – chocolate The list goes on for those but you get the idea. What can I eat? These are things that don’t really bother me or may give a small tinge on my right side afterwards. *keep in mind that I don’t have issues with dumping or constipation since changing my diet. – lean red meat (sparingly) – chicken(not fried) – vegetables(I juice during the day, usually 2 cups max of fresh vegetable juice) real ginger root cut into a small sliver juiced with the rest is great. – beets – juice these after skinning them, your liver and body will love you for it. – supplement shake – I use these to bump my calorie count up. Currently I am using muscle milk collegiate because it has less fat. 4 scoops give me 540 calories, something very vital for weight loss and tissue repair. – filtered water – get a brita pitcher and drink away! I also bought aquasana glass bottles and carry water with me everywhere. – fruits with no skin – this can be tough but doable. I have however been able to eat apples with the skin lately after changing my supplements( see below), but you will have to try it out. There are other things I can/cannot eat, your mileage may vary. Just try it out and keep a log of what gives you issues. Because I have GERD with really bad acid reflux, I take prescription strength omprezol. Once in the morning and I’m good all day. Supplements – some of these may work for you, some may not. For example there is a well known gall bladder site that tells you to take “betatine HCL”. It did nothing but give me constipation, even eating super clean and drinking tons of water. Anyhow here are a few things I take… – omprezol for heartburn – this is for the rest of my life – fish oil – every since cranistan mentioned it, I take it with every meal. My system is more regular and I feel like I’m losing weight again! – bile salts – whatever you do, take these AFTER your meal and not before. I made the mistake and felt like I was having a heart attack from the acid that it built up. One after every meal and I am golden. – choline – the well known gall bladder site I mentioned above suggested it and it hasn’t given me any problems. Read up on it and see if it will be helpful. There may be something I missed but that’s mostly it. The food selection may seem small now, but in reality it’s wide open when you eat quality over the $1 burger c**p at fast food places. People get their gall bladders removed for whatever reasons, now it’s time to recover and live life. I can’t and WON’T say “you will be fine” because real life doesn’t go like that. Can you minimize the pain and other problems? I’m pretty sure simply cutting out sodas and fried foods is a great start! Oh, I also eat a few teaspoons of honey a day. But please remember this honey has to made by local bees in your area. Not something from food lion. Find a local farmer on google and enjoy! This might help you or even inspire you like cranistans post did for me. It’s been a week and a half since I changed and honestly feel better. I can’t say it’s 100%, we all know that’s BS when people say it. Life, stress, foods etc will always play havoc with us. But we can minimize those things and take care of ourself FIRST! Go get a nice juicer and grab those veggies! I have a local farmer who grows killer beets. This year my wife and I started our own small garden. As much as I hate visiting Walmart, they do carry a wide selection of vegetables. Let me know what you guys change and come up with. I would rather see positive solutions to our problem!!
Hi i had my gallbladder removed 16th feb, and still experiencing pain. I went on holiday to spain and did not take pain relief because i didnt think i would need any because i had my gallbladder removed but the pain was unbearable, my husband had to walk for miles to the nearest chemist for buscapini it helped a bit but because i am used to pethedine only worked for few hours i was in absolute agony on plane all the way home why so much pain after op thank you julie thomas
since i had my gallbladder out in September 08, I have 3-4 soft bowel movements/diarrhea every day. They’re mucousy, stinky and grosser than normal. I get abdominal pains before I have to go, and the need is sudden and urgent. I’m also gassier. I’ve also gained about 20 pounds since September. If I had known what a disaster having my GB would be, I never would have done it.
I had my gallbladder removed in October and was in the ER within two weeks with very severe gastric pain. Went back to the surgeon, went back to the original GI doc, no help. Liver enzymes very high, several ER trips. Finally, one month ago, my family doc prescribed 60 mg per day–usual dose is 15 mg per day–of lansoprazole (Prevacid). Haven’t had an attack since and have been eating real food again, not just oatmeal and broth. Liver enzymes have come down. Currently taking 30 mg per day, still works, so far. Someone else has also posted here that lansoprazole worked, so maybe there’s something to this. Worth a try!
“I had the surgery and my health went steadily down hill since then. Many people don’t realize that the changes are gradual to come on. It can take a few years before you start to feel the effects. In my case exactly 2 years.
I agree that many people have no Ill effect – more power to them. It’s just that any surgery is major surgery and the fact is no one can predict exactly how you will be affected by GB surgery.
Although I have managed to stabilize myself somewhat, I still suffer many problems that I never had before the surgery. The laproscopic surgery ain’t that special except for the small scars”
“After my gall bladder removal 17 years ago the reflux began to worsen. I went many years with all kinds of symptoms including loss of my voice and daytime hoarseness etc. I hated being alone and having to answer the phone early in the day because I literally couldn’t talk.
The acid proceeded to worsen over the years even with PPIs and all other varieties of GI meds until it got so bad about three years ago that it started affecting my sleep and quality of life.
I woke up so nauseated and anxious for the last year that my heart would be rapidly because I couldn’t figure out what was wrong. I got to where I couldn’t taste my food, my tongue and throat, nose and sinuses had literally become burned and parched and my ears and head hurt all the time.
That’s when I gave my GI doc one more chance to help me and he suggested the NF surgery which I had on August 1 about 5 weeks ago.
I’m healing and recovering very slowly but I can talk when I wake up in the morning, my burning and sore throat and tongue are healing, I don’t have constant acid reflux and I’m getting to where I can finally taste my food every now and then.
I’m a slow healer but for me the surgery was necessary and is slowly improving my quality of life. It did all seem to start with my gangrenous gall bladder. I have no idea what the connection was but the PH of my body changed after the GB surgery and I’ve never been the same. Hopefully I’ll get back to pre-GB removal stage one of these days.
If you haven’t been checked for bile reflux it might bear looking into.
Best of luck”
I am 51 and had my gall bladder removed a year ago this past May. The surgery was a breeze, I felt great for three days and then, bam, I woke up to the most incredible of what I thought was heartburn. I went back to the surgeon who advised giving it more time and samples of Prevacid. No relief, more samples of Proton Pump Inhibitors. Long story short, after an endoscopy, I was found to have bile reflux. A nasty little side effect that apparently 25% of post gall bladder surgery patients experience and something no one warns you about nor has any idea of how to fix. Acid reducers have no effect and the only drug that gives any relief is Carafate which binds to bile. It is related to the unlucky patients who experience chronic D after the surgery. The bile coming directly from your liver now that has no storage, can go up into your stomach or down into your intestines. My gastroenterologist said that 3-6 months is the typical time for this to clear up but it could take up to a year. It was almost to the day, after a year I was almost back to normal. I lost a ton of weight because I could eat practically nothing. All I can say is that this surgery as with any surgery, was not the piece of cake it is purported to be.
“I had my gallbladder removed in May 2010. I was in horrible pain before the surgery. Burning in my upper abdomen and right side and felt nauseous all of the time. I, too, thought after my surgery I would feel so much better. So many people I had known had the surgery and recovered in no time at all.
My experience has been so different. I was in awful awful pain from the surgery. Couldn’t walk for 3 weeks. Wearing clothes was difficult because my incisions were so tender.
I was out of work for 2 months- and only really went back because I had no more sick days. Although the pain from the incisions is much better, the pain overall is not. I have horrible pain on the whole right side of my abs and it radiates into my back. Pants still bother me. I often pull them away from my waist so it doesnt put any pressure on me.It seems to actually be getting worse and not better. People think I am making it up because so often people talk about how easy this surgery is. That is a total farce. This whole experience has not been easy, and I am just hoping it gets better.
For those of you that are experiencing the same thing and Drs are saying they can’t find anything, what do we do? If many of us out there have this surgery and experience the same thing, there must be something to what we are feeling? ”
“Hi. Well like many of you having replied, and will be reading in the future, I also had similar multiple problems/pain/discomfort post-op. My op was 5 years ago, have always had symptoms since. I had very severe cholecystits, spent a week in hospital, they tossed and turned whether to op or not cus it was so bad, they decided not to (I didnt move/eat/drink for 4 days before I started to recover)…5 months later they did the op, I had symptoms but during the waiting time, but they werent too concerned, but going in to the 1 hour op, they were very surprised as they found it very badly infected, so the 1hr simple op took just over 3 hours and I was ‘lucky’ not to get cut open (owing to the fact I had one of the best experienced general surgeons), I spent longer in hospital post op recovery with a drain because of the infection. I got an ultrasound 2 years after op, found nothing significant really other than fatty liver and pancreas. 3 years after that 2 year post-op ultrasound, I am about to undergo more tests, as its continuing and if anything starting to get worse in symptoms. I’ve just kinda learnt to live/deal with it, but enough is enough and it is hurting more often and in more situations. Will book a blood test and ultrasound in the next week. On another website this morning I found some info that may be worthwhile – was on a google search, sent me to a page on Cleveland linic journal of medicine, a document about a woman with post op symptoms. Basically it concluded there was an issue, and finally resolved. Results found cystic duct remnant. So I will be keeping that in mind to mention to the sonographer when I go get my tests. It can be very difficult to pick up on ultrasound, which may show an acoustic shadow in the anatomic region of the cystic duct, so only a very experienced sonographer/radiologist may pick it up… As I am getting pain in my ribs, I have considered asking for a chest x-ray also, but not sure where that will get me, will see how this goes first.
Good luck, anyone who gets results/answers, please make sure you let us know.”
I had my gallbladder removed five years ago and today I still have problems like I did before it was removed. Ive been to several doctors had more tests run than I can count and no answers. I also have to keep close to a bathroom when eating because the oh so familiar gurgling gassy pain starts then it’s a mad dash to the nearest toilet cause God forbid that I can’t make it to one and have to try to hold it which causes the worst pain ever!! My brother is always telling me he cant see how im not malnurished because my food doesnt stay in my body long enough to get any nutrients from it. Im glad that I found this site because it showed me that I’m not the only one having to deal with it!
“I had my gallbladder removed in October 2007. Since that time I have experienced diarrhea and stomach aches after I eat anything – whether it be fatty, greasy foods, or fresh fruit or vegetables.
Lately I have been having severe pains in my abdomen that feel similar to gallbladder attacks. I went to the doctor today and they are running multiple blood tests to see if anything is happening with my liver or pancreas. Today is Friday, and I have lost 9 lbs. since Monday of this week from vomitting, diarrhea, and basically being afraid to eat anything for fear of the pain. ”
“I had my gallbladder removed in October 2007. Since that time I have experienced diarrhea and stomach aches after I eat anything – whether it be fatty, greasy foods, or fresh fruit or vegetables.
Lately I have been having severe pains in my abdomen that feel similar to gallbladder attacks. I went to the doctor today and they are running multiple blood tests to see if anything is happening with my liver or pancreas. Today is Friday, and I have lost 9 lbs. since Monday of this week from vomitting, diarrhea, and basically being afraid to eat anything for fear of the pain. ”
