gaul stones

Mine hasn't been diagnosed as being a dysfunctional gb but I'm sure it is. 

I find if I stick to a non fat diet ie: no butters, oils, or anything with fat on it, I'm ok. 

Yesterday I had a fried egg sandwich after an hour that familiar upper right stomach and shoulder pain started. 

My doc wants me in anti depressants as he thinks it will help. I won't go on them so we are stuck at stalemate. I'm going away on holiday I will check If I'm better there. Then when I get home I'm going to kick some backside to get to bottom if this. Not sure why your doc said go to full fat milk instead of half fat sort of defeats the objective if ur having gb probs. google diets for gb. There are lots you can follow. Try that see if it helps. Good luck. I know your pain well. 

I ended up with pancreatitis 2 weeks after i had my baby in febuary and it was brought on by gallstones. The pain was worse than labour pain and thats putting in mildly. I had to wait  until may to have my gallbladder out with having my newborn but it was the best decision i ever made as i was hospitalised twice as the pancreatitis kept coming back which makes it worse, i could hardly eat, i was actually scared to eat incase anything set it off- i hardly ate until my op as anything and everything set the pain off! Once i recovered from the op- couple of weeks i was feeling much better and not had a problem since! This was my first ever hospital stay (apart from my 2 labours) and first operation but quite frankly i couldnt wait to get it done

hi valerie.

i had my gallbladder removed in march 2012 but before that suffered with excruciating pain and vomitted just about every time i tried eating. i found that bland foods such as steamed fish and rice or chicken and rice were the best things for me to eat. once i had my gb removed i have been able to eat all most anything. if you have read through some of the other comments i have put you will notice that i have had a few medical problems since my op but don't  be put off by that. just because i had problems afterwards doesn't mean you will. my stones were very large and left a lot of debris behind in my bile ducts. i would still have the gb removed all over again if i had too. good luck with decision making. keep in touch. annie.

 

Hi Valerie 

if you eat bland really low fat food no caffeine it will settle down until your next flare up. 

Your gallbladder is a wonderful organ it stores bile from the liver concentrates it and your stomach requests more or less bile from it depending on what you eat. So a fried breakfast lots of oil more bile needed. Then your gallbladder squeezes contracts to squirt extra bile into your tummy. Then the stones rub against each other and make your gallbladder sore inside and sometimes a stone gets stuck in a duct then you have that agonising almost heart attack level pain , vomiting ,fainting pain...after several hours the stone settles back in the gallbladder if your lucky. If not you are rushed to A and E . 

So eating bland foods that don't require extra bile settles it down. Caffeine causes it to contract chocolate was a killer for me. Buscopan can ease the contracting gallbladder in a colic attack. 

So yes surgery is the answer if you want to be able to eat normally out of fear of attacks and general gnawing pain.

but while waiting the diet can make it manageable. Omeprazole helped me too as it reduces the amount of acid your liver produces. 

The good thing is it's fixable . Had mine out in February 2014. And I can eat.. Also I realised for years I had suffered with nausea slight when I ate and when I had bowel movements. I just thought it was normal. All gone now