Zoe B I had gallbladder out 5 months ago still get pain and bloating as well what can I take fpr pain ?

Question

After I eat certain foods I get pain and at times have to make myself sick I need to know which foods I should stay clear of although I can eat curry things like digestive biscuits butter and some soups can bring the pain on. Any information would be very much appreciated.

Answer 1

I can help!!! I too had my gallbladder removed and all my food went right through me. The reason this happens is that your liver produces bile (a green liquid substance that helps your body to digest fats). Once the liver produces the bile, it stores it in the gallbladder. When you eat a meal with fat in it, the gallbladder squirts out as much bile as your body needs to digest the fat from that meal.

Your liver still produces bile regardless that you have had your gallbladder removed, however now it has no where to store the bile that it is producing. So what happens is, once the liver produces the bile it goes straight to your lower intestine and sits there in a pool. Once you eat a meal, it hits the pool of bile (which is more bile than is necessary to digest that meal) and you have diarhea.

Being the research queen that I am, and doctors being as useless as they are (because no doctor was willing to acknowlege this problem or offer me advice, even though EVERYBODY I have ever talked to that has had their gallbladder out has had this problem), I have found the antidote.

You must take Calcium suppliments every day. I find that the calcium carbonate works better than calcium citrate (although I have heard the exact opposite, you have to find what works for you). Calcium once digested becomes like a powdery chalk which absorbs the excess bile sitting in your lower intestine. If you do this, you will never go through this again. I take two 600 mg tablets every morning and this works for me. You have to play with the dosage for yourself to see what works. If you take too much calcium you will become constipated, so once you find your dosage stick with it.

I was very happy to come upon this question and that I was able to help you. I promise you that this works. Good luck!

P.S. They sell a very large bottle of calcium carbonate at Walmart and it lasts me a long time :)

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Hi Zoe, i really feel for you as i had my gallbladder removed quite a while ago, and i still have the same problems. I even wonder if it was worth having the operation. I find cuecumber, cheese, white bread, Pizza, brings on a bad bout of pain and bloatingness. When i eat white bread you can actually see my tummy growing! I did find that it was best to write out a diary of what i have eaten and then when i got the pain i soon knew what foods to avoid. My doctor advised me to drink flat coke, and for some strange reason it works, i also found that ginger biscuits help the sickness feeling. I do hope you feel better soon as it is a horrible pain to go through, especially when you have to make yourself sick to feel better. My doctor also perscribed Esomeprazole, which has helped.

Answer 4

i don't think of any persons can allow you to recognize what assessments you opt for to have ran. i trust in trouble-free words your well being care service can attempt this. On an aspect be conscious, even although docs say that having your gallbladder bumped off is high-quality because it purely isn't needed, i do not trust. I had my gallbladder bumped off on the age of 18. i'm no longer 24 and each and every thing interior me replaced when I had it taken out. I had to run to the bathing room when I ate for years because my food ran precise through me. Plus, my heartburn has gotten so undesirable that I actual have a not uncomplicated time snoozing because of it. i'm getting somewhat undesirable abdomen aches that very last for a lengthy time period and not in any respect some thing I do can ease it. The gallbladder seems to have more beneficial of a preventative purpose than any well being care service ever has made me comprehend, yet I choose I nonetheless had mine. i imagine i am going to continually struggle through from more beneficial issues through no longer having my gallbladder and others I actual have talked to have a similar issues I do.

Answer 5

hello zoe
i had my gallbladder out in June 2006, i was still having the pain after my surgery as well so i went back to the doc who gave me the surgery and she had put me on a stomach pill which settles the stomach then discover that i had inflammation of the stomach, supposedly this is popular after gallbladder surgery. it may not be a permit thing but right now the meds work. what happens is your stomach gets upset and pushes the gas up and that is the cause on the pain i to was like you and making myself sick to feel better but after talking and find out it was inflammation in the stomach things have been better.Next time you have these pains try drinking milk it will make you burp but you should feel better, see your doc.

Answer 6

I to had pain 4 months after my op. But it was just as acute as the first time, I was taken into hospital and they found a stone was left in one of the ducts.
Like KITKAT it to had diareheoa and had no quality of life, I had malabsorption of bile salts, I was given Questran and it has changed my life completely.

Answer 7

when I had mine out, the surgeon told me there was no special diet anymore. it used to be a low fat diet, but that has been scrapped. go back to the doc, maybe the bile duct is blocking off.

Answer 8

well make sure u eat 5 day thing (if u get what i mean). go and by prebio 7 from holland and barrett. it hepl me + it make me have slim tum.