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] Date Posted:09:26:05 08/09/04 Mon In reply to:
Deborah Peters
's message, "problems after gallbladder removal" on 11:50:18 03/14/03 Fri
I am a healthy, active, 26 year old woman and i had my gallbladder removed in February of this year. I have experienced an up and down of reactions to not having my gallbladder. There have been times when i am fine and feel like i can eat anything and live a normal life. However - at other times, i have diarrhea after eating and sometimes get really nauseous, sometimes so much so - that i throw up a greenish-yellow substance (i think it is bile). I have also lost around 10 to 15 pounds since my surgery. I have seen three gastro-specialists and two family doctors and have had tons of tests done including a CT Scan, barium swallow-lower bowel series, ultra-sounds, blood-tests, etc. Everything comes back negative.
At first the doctors told me they thought i had irritable bowel syndrome. I was prescribed Levbid, an anti-sposmadic, and i also have been taking Nexium for reflux problems. This seemed to work sometimes -- but, i continued to get really sick about once a month. I went back to the doctors who wanted to put me on an anti-depressant for the ibs. I refused b/c i didn't think that that was the real problem. I read a lot about ibs online and in books and my symptoms were a little different.
More recently, two doctors have told me that my problems could just be irritation of my intestines from the constant flow of bile, causing the diarrhea, and then the reflux of some of the bile into my stomach, causing the nausia and throw-up situations.
To be honest - the only thing i've tried so far that has really helped is oatmeal!!! Believe it or not, I've started eating instant oatmeal every morning for breakfast b4 i eat anything else. Oatmeal naturally binds the cholesterol in the bile ... which helps with the irritation. Since I've started eating it -- i have not had a serious episode of diarrhea (although sometims i still get soft or strange stoole). The doctor's told me to also try breaking pieces of the metumicil fiber wafers off and eating them after or during my meals. (start with small amounts of fiber) It has the same effect as the oatmeal. I still get really nauseous at times and have thrown up green one time since trying the oatmeal/fiber routine. It has made me feel a lot better. So maybe some of you can try that.
The only other piece of advice i have is listen to your body. If you feel something will help -- try it. But - if the doctors are not listening and making you feel bad -- see someone else. We all deserve to have someone really listen and help with our problems... that is what we are paying them for.
I know that we are all really stressed about our health problems right now. I just hope and pray that my body adjusts to this soon. I really feel that my life has become ruled by my stomach and its problems. I feel frustrated and stressed about all of the time - but I'm trying to keep a positive outlook. The doctor's say that usually people will adjust to the bile problems within a year or so. Let's keep hope.
Meghan
>Last March 19. I had my gallbladder removed in
>emergancy surgery, I had a very sick gallbladder and
>had liver inzimes so high I had to be put on demoral
>for 5 days. My problem is that to this day I still
>have diarhea everytime I eat i'm running to the
>bathroom within 5 minutes. Does anyone else still have
>this problem? What can be done about it?
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Date Posted:10:14:32 12/12/04 Sun
>Last March 19. I had my gallbladder removed in
>emergancy surgery, I had a very sick gallbladder and
>had liver inzimes so high I had to be put on demoral
>for 5 days. My problem is that to this day I still
>have diarhea everytime I eat i'm running to the
>bathroom within 5 minutes. Does anyone else still have
>this problem? What can be done about it?
I had the same problem and was put on questran for the diahrea. It worked like a miracle adn changed my life!
