Nausea 12 weeks after gallbladder removal

Nancy-

You mention 2 years - is that when you started feeling 100% back to normal?

What were your symptoms along the way?

I like your comment about patience. If you aren't, depression may kick in. I was depressed early on, but now I just try to be as patient as possible.

Any other advice for all of us?

Your help is greatly appreciated.

hello everyone,

here with another update. i ended up relapsing with the bacterial infection and had to go back on the medicine. I'm coming to the end of the medicine now. Nausea still comes and goes, but i've tried to push past it. When it gets bad, I take Zofran and Phenagren. Sometimes it helps, sometimes it only takes the edge off. I'm back at work part time in the morning.

March 24th will be 6 months after my gallbladder surgery. i still get exhausted easy. When i'm not at work, i spend most of my time in bed. I still eat bland. Sometimes i try to eat something not bland, and sometimes it will agree with me, sometimes it won't. I take Melatonin at night to help me sleep or else i wouldn't.

My biggest thing i'm battling is anxiety and depression. I'm on a anti anxiety medicine now, and it helps by taking the edge off, but some days it doesn't seem to help because i develop this feeling of dread, like i'm dead inside. It's not a fun feeling. i don't wish these feelings on anyone.

So thats where i'm at. I thank God for bringing me this far, but i still have a long way to go. I hope everyone is doing ok. This thread has pretty much died.

I did have my gallbladder removed a little over a year ago.

Month 7-8 was the turning point for me.

I still have a little nausea, but not as bad as I used to get.

In the beginning, I couldnt eat and lost 15 pounds.

thanks John

It's good t it's at your nausea has eased.

please could you tell me whether your nausea was related to eating or not? mine seems to come on even if I havn't eaten. my gall bladder was removed because it got inflamed/ infected twice. I didnt have gallstones but I did have gall bile sludge.

I'm wondering whether it might be due to something else eg gastritis?

did you ever find out the cause of your nausea?

thanks

Maggie

My nausea came directly after surgery. I never had nausea in my entire life.

The nausea just came and went. I went to GI doctor and they gave me a prescription to help ease the nausea. Apparently the prescription helps line the stomach. I cant recall the name of the medicine.

hi I am new to this blog and I hope I can get some help. i had gallbadder removed almost 3 weeks ago and have started having really bad nausea, bad appetite, and can't eat a big meal my portions are very small and fill up quickly, also feel bloated. I just feel alot of discomfort in my belly is any of this normal? I would greatly appreciate any feedback.

I've had my gallbladder taken out about a month a go and I'm still have pain in the right side of my belly as well as my shoulder and all over my belly it is a sharp pulling pain I'm nauseous every day no matter what I eat I've have been sticking to only things with low fat before the surgery i used to sleep on my left side at night but now I can only lay on my left side for only a few minutes until the pain comes back and as for my right side no way so I'm forced to sleep on my back alot of times I wake up with a sore neck and back from sleeping this stuff really sucks

I had my gall bladder removed laparoscopically about 3 months ago and it took a good 6 weeks before I felt back to normal. I was nauseous intermittently for about 4 weeks and very much had to be careful with food. I started taking Ox Bile salts to aid fat digestion. not because I ate a lot of fatty food but because I wanted the good days I eat e.g. avocados, nuts, eggs, oily fish to be efficiently digested. Remember, u have had a major operation and it takes time for your body to settle. sleeping on your back is better for your spine so get accustomed to it!!

So i realize that i haven't updated in quite awhile, i think 6 months, so it has been over a year since my gallbladder surgery. my surgery was 9/24/18. Anyway, i was treated for the bacterial infection i had and it finally went away. my doctor thinks i got it in one of the many ER visits i've had. It is called c Diff and it is highly contagious.

So i got rid of that, but i still had nausea. GI didn't know what was going on. She kept doing tests so in May i had a GES or Gastric Emptying Study, and i finally have a diagnosis.

i have Gastroparesis which means my stomach is slow to digest food so it sits there and starts to rot which causes the nausea and vomiting. It is a chronic illness so it has no cure. It can go into remission for months, but it always comes back. I've been in remission for the last 3 months, but last week all my symptoms came back. There is not really any medications out there for GP. i take 2 different anti nausea medicines that half work when i flare. Also when i flare, i can only tolerate protein shakes, chicken noodle soup, and chicken broth. Even when i'm not flaring i have to be careful what i eat. Low fiber, soft, easy to digest foods. no nuts, no raw veggies, no fruits with peels.

My GI thinks it was caused by my gallbladder surgery. One of the suspected causes is when the vagus nerve gets damaged.

So thats where i'm at. I quit my job back in March because i was missing so many days, and I haven't been back to work since. My flare ups are too unpredictable. I'm in the middle of filing for disability.