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Dealing with symptoms after Gallbladder surgery

Digestive Health | Last Active: Apr 27 6:42am | Replies (266)

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@congolia

Hi everyone, About two months ago, I had my gallbladder removed laparoscopically. It was so enlarged and infected that it was almost gangrenous! Doc said it had been making me sick for a long time. I had dumping syndrome, then diverticulitis, so I hoped for the best. All is going pretty well, except I still occasionally have dumping again and that is very distressing. You don’t know you’re about to “go” until you’re already going! Ugh
Anyone else have to deal with this? Any advice you give will be greatly appreciated. Thanks

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I've had a similar experience and it continues over a year later. You plan your life on where the next bathroom is. My gall bladder was gangrenous. The one thing that has helped is Metamucil. I take it every morning. Sorry I could not be more encouraging. I was told it would calm down over time. I'm waiting.

@congolia

Keep a food journal.

Everyone reacts differently to foods, but most common triggers for the dumping is greasy foods, sweets, artificial sweeteners. With some it is dairy. Oatmeal, bananas and psyllium foods and products can help solidify stool. A food journal will help you figure out what your body likes and doesn't like. I

t seemed to me most anything I ate triggered the dumping.

So I tried adding more probiotic foods like yogurt. I tried probiotic products .. pills/capsules .. and not much help. Then my husband's cousin told me to try Align. Gee.. my first thoughts was it is expensive! My husband said that it was worth a try. It worked! So you might try probiotic products. Again everyone is different so it might be trial and error. Don't just take one pill and say it doesn't work … give it a good try of 2-3 weeks. You might have a gassy stomach until used to it. I had the gassy stomach already and the Align calmed it.

Diet though is going to be your greatest help in being able to go somewhere without worrying about if you are going to “go”. There are more diet hints throughout this forum.. just use the search box at top of page .

ZeeGee