Post Gall Bladder surgery

Glad you are doing OK. I had my gallbladder removed 8 weeks ago.

I have not had sickness (vomitting). I am still being careful what I eat and trying to keep on low fat. Occasional stomaaach crmap but not the pain in my right side that I had with the gallstones. Feeling a lot better. Like you I have lost weight and am trying to put a little bit of that back on.

Take care and keep in touch

Sarah xx

Hi 

Had mine removed back in february and got a post about my current problems here.

As far as eating, I couldn't wait to have some food after surgery and had endless slices of toast with lots of tea without any problems, I did take it easy and sampled different foods gradually treating each one as an experiment, eventually I found I could eat almost anything with the exception of fish and chips, but this only gave me mild discomfort, I didn't have any problems with hot spicy foods either.

I started getting the same "Galstone" attacks within a couple of weeks after surgery no matter what I ate and have had a constant pain/discomfort for the last two weeks which I am waiting to see the specialist about, eating anything doesn't make it any worse or any better so I might as well enjoy my food and ignore the pain till it hopefully gets sorted  

Glad to hear things are going well for you.  I'm just over five weeks since surgery and am doing very well.  I felt well from the day after surgery and didn't suffer from any of the problems others have suffered.  For the first month I stuck to a no fat diet (surgeon's recommendation) but over the last week I've been introducing fatty foods a little at a time.  I find that I can eat chocolate and full fat cheese with no problems but I have to be careful with olive oil, if I overdo it then I feel a little nauseous but I think that will pass.  I ate a full meal three days ago without any problems but I'm staying away from deep fried foods.  I also am still losing weight!!!  Its terrible as I lost 8 kilos before surgery and 2 kilos since so now that I can eat properly I hope to start putting on the kilos again.  I eat light in the evenings, mostly fruit, crispbread, low fat cheese.  Hope all continues well for you and will look out for another update.

stay on tract. you are doing great. 6 small meals a day is great, less work  on your liver. don't eat after 7 pm I had to learn the hard way and now after 13 years I have mastered it. I am in good shap and not overweight. stay away from chocolate and  junk food. over the next few years you will have problems for eating that stuff. You are doing great and everythiing you are saying is normal. Diet , diet , diet is everything and you will always get flare ups but that is normal. The less flare ups the better in the long run. great job.

Hi Tazz

Glad to hear your operation we not well and I hope you keep on improving.

I had my mine removed on Saturday and out yesterday.

All going well , surgeon did say it was severely inflamed , so better out than in.

All the best.

Sorry Tazz

Should have read went well.

Cheers

That is normal, I have been dealing with it for 13 years. Diet ,diet ,diet. you wil have attacks just keep them down. to many can cause problems with your pancreaus.

I had mine out last week and I have gone from being greedy to only really eating because I should. Get really full quickly too. I am not sure what the health implications are if mine as apparently my gall bladder was attached to my liver which shocked me as I have never heard of that until the doctor told me it had happened.