Unless your gallbladder is filled with stones that they can’t get rid of, or is actually dead, don’t let them take it out! Oh, my God, I almost died after they took mine out because I couldn’t digest anything. I weighed 73 pounds for five years and subsisted on mashed potatoes and canned carrots. I’m 5 foot four. I’m finally back to being able to eat, although I’ve had something going on since last November, but before that I was eating, but I cannot longer eat any raw vegetables, no spices of any kind, so no prepared foods, fat doesn’t go down, (except for avocados and for a while, coconut milk yogurt, but then that started making me sick), the list goes on. Without a gallbladder, you don’t have enough digestive acids to fully digest your food and then you don’t absorb your vitamins, etc. It’s really dangerous and they shouldn’t even do it. They should check our gallbladders periodically and make sure they don’t have stones so they don’t have to take them out ever. It basically killed my mom because after they took hers out, she had constant diarrhea and began kind of wasting away and then she had such terrible acid reflux that they put her on a proton pump, inhibitor, which broke both of her hips, and also she got two infections, C diff and E. coli, which I have read is not that uncommon if you don’t have enough stomach acid. Her body couldn’t fight them. I would give anything to have my gallbladder back. I told the doctors for six years before it went out that it was going out and because they’re Pipida scan said that it wasn’t they didn’t believe me. I was right, but by the time they found it, it was already dead, and I had to remove it, or I would’ve gotten sepsis. I’m scheduled to have a colonoscopy in a couple of weeks and honestly, I don’t even trust doctors. Not sure what to do. I guess I’ll go, but I haven’t had very good experiences with doctors. It seems so difficult to find a really good one. Good luck to you, but again, I would keep your gallbladder if you can, unless it’s actually dying. 💕

Thank you for responding! Yes! I actually didnt have an endoscopy/colonoscopy up until last month. 😬 I was scheduled to set up an appointment last year in May but when my HIDA scan results came back, they scheduled me for surgery instead. I found out just yesterday that after surgery i was supposed to have an ultrasound and everything rechecked if the symptoms didnt go away, so its on the list now im waiting to hear back on the date for that. But YES even after surgery i still have the same symptoms i just dont have the boot feeling under my right rib cage anymore, shes had me on a low fat diet, high fiber diet, and a few others. I can eat the same thing breakfast, lunch & dinner all week…. Each day is different sometimes id be running to the bathroom in the middle of trying to eat, sometimes i go days without, it varies day to day. Minute to minute it feels like. I actually never gotten the COVID vaccines. Ive taken numerous medications, she started treating it as acid reflux but we trial and error (i would have to look at everything weve tried) its been so long, my brain isnt what it used to be anymore😅 now im on a trial of IBSRELA, today was my first day.