Gall Bladder surgery

February 14, 2012

Hello everyone - hope you are all doing well today!

I know this isn't FMS related, but thought since you all are a wealth of health

information, I thought I would see if you knew of this or had experienced this

yourself or with a family member.

I have friend who is 50, who started having upper abdominal pain, nausea,

and dizziness back in mid-december. She went in for several tests to see if it

was gall bladder stones. They never found any stones, but her symptoms got worse

and worse and her diet became reduced to dry potatoes, homemade applesauce,

bananas, and vegetarian soup. graham crackers. She was completely unable to have

anything with fat in it without having stomach pains and nausea right after

eating. She had her gall bladder out on Jan 30th. They found that the gall

bladder was inflamed, with no stones, so they took it out. They had also found

some gastritis (inflammation of stomach lining) during her endoscopy.

The surgery went fine and her incisions are healing fine. However, she is still

limited to the diet I described, and even on this diet, she still gets bouts of

stomach pain and nausea for no reason. She does not have the dizziness anymore,

but she is absolutely miserable and has been off work for several weeks on and

off since this started. They gave her Prilosec, which doesn't work, she takes

Tums or Pepto Bismol and has Zofran (anti-nausea) for bad bouts of nausea,

especially after eating. She doesnt like to take medications and knows that

doing that just masks the real problem.

She has also started to have more constipation, some of it started due to the

couple of days of vicodin since the surgery, but she has been off of that and is

still having it. I have her on psyllium fiber, stomach enzymes, aloe juice, and

juicers made from carrots, beets, apples now. It seems there is no end in sight

on this. Whenever she tries to introduce something new into her diet, she feels

awful again. She is to the point where she is afraid to eat anything, but if she

lets her stomach get too empty, she gets nauseated again. We have taken her off

of any gluten/wheat products such as crackers, thinking maybe she has a gluten

allergy.

Do you know anyone that has had this and has resolved it? I have looked online

blogs and have seen that a lot of people who have had gall bladder surgeries and

they are still having the same, very similar problems months and months later

after surgery.

I have never had gallbladder or stomach problems, but I have done the Hulda

liver cleanses before where you drink the olive oil and grapefruit juice

and the next morning you pass a lot of gall stones. I would have my friend try

this, but I'm afraid with how sick she is that trying this cleanse might make

her very sick and I dont want that after all she has been through.

Anyone have any ideas?

Love, Colleen

February 14, 2012

Definitely all gluten and all dairy ... (My daughter had similar symptoms ...

once tested and off these, she's been fine). Psyllium can make matters worse,

I've found. She should avoid all processed foods and eating out for a while

until she gets used to checking for gluten & dairy in her foods... If she would

like, I could send her a guidesheet I put together for people who have asked for

it.

> Hello everyone - hope you are all doing well today!

>

> I know this isn't FMS related, but thought since you all are a wealth of

health information, I thought I would see if you knew of this or had experienced

this yourself or with a family member.

>

> I have friend who is 50, who started having upper abdominal pain, nausea, and

dizziness back in mid-december. She went in for several tests to see if it was

gall bladder stones. They never found any stones, but her symptoms got worse and

worse and her diet became reduced to dry potatoes, homemade applesauce, bananas,

and vegetarian soup. graham crackers. She was completely unable to have anything

with fat in it without having stomach pains and nausea right after eating. She

had her gall bladder out on Jan 30th. They found that the gall bladder was

inflamed, with no stones, so they took it out. They had also found some

gastritis (inflammation of stomach lining) during her endoscopy.

>

> The surgery went fine and her incisions are healing fine. However, she is

still limited to the diet I described, and even on this diet, she still gets

bouts of stomach pain and nausea for no reason. She does not have the dizziness

anymore, but she is absolutely miserable and has been off work for several weeks

on and off since this started. They gave her Prilosec, which doesn't work, she

takes Tums or Pepto Bismol and has Zofran (anti-nausea) for bad bouts of nausea,

especially after eating. She doesnt like to take medications and knows that

doing that just masks the real problem.

>

> She has also started to have more constipation, some of it started due to the

couple of days of vicodin since the surgery, but she has been off of that and is

still having it. I have her on psyllium fiber, stomach enzymes, aloe juice, and

juicers made from carrots, beets, apples now. It seems there is no end in sight

on this. Whenever she tries to introduce something new into her diet, she feels

awful again. She is to the point where she is afraid to eat anything, but if she

lets her stomach get too empty, she gets nauseated again. We have taken her off

of any gluten/wheat products such as crackers, thinking maybe she has a gluten

allergy.

>

> Do you know anyone that has had this and has resolved it? I have looked online

blogs and have seen that a lot of people who have had gall bladder surgeries and

they are still having the same, very similar problems months and months later

after surgery.

>

> I have never had gallbladder or stomach problems, but I have done the Hulda

liver cleanses before where you drink the olive oil and grapefruit juice

and the next morning you pass a lot of gall stones. I would have my friend try

this, but I'm afraid with how sick she is that trying this cleanse might make

her very sick and I dont want that after all she has been through.

>

> Anyone have any ideas?

>

> Love, Colleen

>

February 14, 2012

Hello Colleen

I had my gall bladder out at 34 and I did have a golf ball gall stone. The

doctor kept it he was so impressed. Anyway I knew to expect issues when eating

fat for at least a year but was still having issues years later. I was throwing

up it seemed no matter what I ate I could not find a pattern so I had a

colonoscopy which they looked for Celics etc and what they did find is I had C

diff http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/c-difficile/DS00736

You can get it from having surgery or just being in the hospital or they see it

often in senior care homes. I was lucky and the first round of antibiotics

worked. But I was still not feeling well and still having bouts of vomiting, I

went to motility clinic which they first measure how fast you digest your food

by eating radiated eggs and xray every hour which did not show any problems but

then they wanted to do another round of tests where the stick a tube in your

mouth while you are awake and put liquid food through the tube and I think the

tests takes a few hours and the doctor wanted to put me on anti depressive

drugs. I was frustrated and decided to go see a homeopathic doctor who worked in

a reg doctors office in San Francisco. She thought perhaps I was allergic to

eggs etc so she ordered a food sensitivity test which I had to pay for which was

1,000.00 but I was already paying so much for all the other tests. It did show a

wheat, yeast, brewers yeast, cumin, kidney beans, green beans. squash,

sunflower, pinto beans, cows milk. and many others I keep the card in my wallet.

Once I started to eliminate the foods I felt better. I would every month or so

try to eat something on the list and then would vomit. So I was good for years.

I know can have the kerrygoldirish grass fed butter with no problems at all. I

have been on this diet for 4 years. I still stay away from most but have

accidentally had a few like pinto beans with no issues.

The doctor told me since I would eat the same foods every day it can cause this.

It would be worth it for your friend to see a homeopathic doctor and if she has

diarrhea to get a colonoscopy or just do a stool test. I think my homeopathic

doctor order that for me as well

Also Braggs Apple Cider Vinegar helped me so much with my constipation. Have her

try that daily.

Also being nausea all the time can be a sign of something going on with the

brain.

Let us know how she is doing I know its scary and frustrating and most reg

doctors think its a psychological problem when it is not such

Ciao-

Ange

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To: " fibromyalgiacured " <fibromyalgiacured >

Sent: Tue, February 14, 2012 8:12:53 AM

Subject: Gall Bladder surgery