Diet for Gallstones???

Anne_perry

Hi I am new to here and I have been diagnosed with gallstones as well. If truth be known I am feeling a little tearful at the moment. I know this sounds like a moan but I am so fed up with the nausea, pain and indigestion after eating. Did anyone experiance pain, immense tiredness and also a slight temperature after you eat?

My dr this morning said that the tiredness was probably unrelated but it only happens with the other symptoms when I eat.

I am wating for my ultrasound test now and I hope I have it soon as the jabbing pain is really unplesant as well as the pain between my shoulder blades...

Sorry to sound moany, but read through all the pages and I felt I could come here and talk about it.

sillyvixen

hi anne - dont worry about moaning. have you been advised to make changes to your diet? if not a low fat diet may well help your symptoms. as for the tiredness - i was tired for ages due to jaundice - has your dr done bloods if not get him/her to do liver functions! yes i also had a tempreture as i had an infection.

i hope you get your scan soon - try to keep eating low fat nutrious food in the mean time, you need to keep your nutrients up, even if you dont feel like eating.

take care and let us know how you get on.

vix

Anne_perry

sillyvixen wrote: »

hi anne - dont worry about moaning. have you been advised to make changes to your diet? if not a low fat diet may well help your symptoms. as for the tiredness - i was tired for ages due to jaundice - has your dr done bloods if not get him/her to do liver functions! yes i also had a tempreture as i had an infection.

i hope you get your scan soon - try to keep eating low fat nutrious food in the mean time, you need to keep your nutrients up, even if you dont feel like eating.

take care and let us know how you get on.

vix

Yes I have about 4 blood tests done now all on the liver and something is definately not quite right and there is some inflammation but a fairly young new dr could not say exactly were.

Also may be I am being unfair to him but none of my other drs had to examine the area, and before where I was just getting waves of pain, after he examined me and it really hurt, now I am getting constant pain everytime I eat, even from the low fat food. On Tuesday night I even receive pains in my chest and it was something i have never felt up to now...

Its frustrating not really know what to eat. Today I tried some tangerines and boy did they set of the indigestion as well as the pain.

How often should I pester my dr as the pain has now changed and I want to go back next week and see if they can push it much quicker. I was told by the dr I saw on Tuesday when I asked how much longer would I have to wait for the ultrasound, that since it was not an emergency then it would not be straightaway. I am not meaning to sound selfish, but I am becoming depressed when I have to decide whether I can and cannot eat. So I would like to at least get the ultrasound done.

Does you have any suggestions as to what food you can eat whilst having to deal with this pain as it has mostly been trial and error up to now.

Also thanks for replaying :cheesy:

sillyvixen

sorry you are having a bad time anne, i could not cope with oranges or orange juice so it does not supprise me you had a problem with tangerines!
as a veggie it was easier for me - i found ways of making fat free versions of my favorites (curry,chilli, pasta sauce, soup etc) and cooked big batches of it to freeze in small portions so i would be able to make somthing quickly by cooking pasta rice or a jacket potato - i took a huge salad with fat free dressing to work each day and had rivita with low fat homous or low fat cheese spread for lunch with it. once i got into a routine of what i could eat i was eating 8+ portions of fruit and veg a day - it took some doing to establish a routine at the beginging as i had been skipping meals or easting hardly anything to stave off the attacks and to start with and some days were more succesfull than others - once i had got into a routine i found my body was warning me if i was eating late!

hope you find a routine that suits you soon - once you do it does get easier.

vix

the_devil_made_me_do_it

Has anyone found it very difficult to lose weight after having gall bladder removed?

I had mine taken out March 2008 and I've since piled on weight. I have been trying to lose weight since January 09, but it's been very slow & tedious. Now I've come to a grinding halt and the weight has started creeping on again.

sillyvixen

the_devil_made_me_do_it wrote: »

Has anyone found it very difficult to lose weight after having gall bladder removed?

I had mine taken out March 2008 and I've since piled on weight. I have been trying to lose weight since January 09, but it's been very slow & tedious. Now I've come to a grinding halt and the weight has started creeping on again.

i have to admit that loosing weight is not like it used to be (i have gone up 2 sizes since my op in 2006) but origionally put it down to being on a no fat diet for 6 months... i am still not my pre op size but going on a low fat diet now does not have the same effect it had before surgery... i find it hard to loose weight now even when i revert back to my pre op diet!!

lisa71_2

Hope someone can help me

i have just had 2 lots of bloods done both have a very high liver function.

probable that i have gallstones, my question is that i am due to go on holiday in 2 days. just want to know if i am ok to fly.

any advice would be apprieciated.

thanks lisa

mini_huny_money

Hya all

Hope those of you who are suffering get your ops soon. I got lots of support from every doctor I saw throughout, from the GP's to the hospital consultants.....evryone of them realised the pain I was in. One locum GP who seemed to be a hundred said that his first surgical consultant had told him that GB pain was "wall scrimming".....I interpreted that as sending you crawling up the walls with pain

It will be 4 months tomorrow since I had my op and I cant believe how well I feel. I have much more energy, for the past year all I wanted to do was sleep, I was so lethargic and couldnt be bothered doing anything. I feel totally different now

However, that could be down to the weight loss. I lost a stone and a half from my first attack in May till my op on the 4th August Then I put half a stone back on cos I could eat anything I liked . :eek:

By the time I went back to work on the 25th August I;d lost that half stone and now I've lost over anther half stone. In total I've lost a few pounds less than 3 stone. The week before I was admitted for my ercp though I ate barely anything

I think I've managed it since the op by eating less carbs. I follow the low carb thread on the forum

My downfall is cheese.......and I eat cheese every day. red wine now gives me heartburn, but that sometimes happened before the op too!!!!!!

To Anne, who's waiting for her ultrasound. If the doctor has referred you for the scan why not ring Radiology and speak to one of the people who send out appointments, you may find you're lucky and get a short notice cancellation

Thinking of you all who are going through that pain just now, but you will get better

XXX

mini_huny_money

Anne_perry wrote: »

Hi I am new to here and I have been diagnosed with gallstones as well. If truth be known I am feeling a little tearful at the moment. I know this sounds like a moan but I am so fed up with the nausea, pain and indigestion after eating. Did anyone experiance pain, immense tiredness and also a slight temperature after you eat?

My dr this morning said that the tiredness was probably unrelated but it only happens with the other symptoms when I eat.

I am wating for my ultrasound test now and I hope I have it soon as the jabbing pain is really unplesant as well as the pain between my shoulder blades...

Sorry to sound moany, but read through all the pages and I felt I could come here and talk about it.

Hya Anne

you're not sounding moany at all, though I know how you feel.....I felt I was turning into one of those women who only talk bout their bits and bowels:rotfl:

I reckon the tiredness is related as I said above practically since the op I felt totally different and think that the GB pain had something to do with it. By July I was in constant pain......The jabbing sort .....( I felt as if I couldve ripped into my right ribcage and claw at the pain with my hands) and felt feverish after any attack

Let us know how you get on. Take care

xx

naiomivixen

Hi been reading all the theds know this is a while after all postings,, i have never sufferd in my life im only 27 and november last year thought i was having a heart attack lol i suffer panic attacks which didnt help and theres only me and my son so rang nhs and thay rang a amberlance as i passed out during the call, anyways from 2nd november untill 2009--begining of januray 2010 spent every other day having these attacks no matter what i ate including plan brown brrad and plan tuna,, the hospital scanned me and said i had gallstones so im now booked in to have them removed on the 28th of this month! Im very worried that after i wont be able to eat or drink still,, not that i did before but would like to think at my age il be able to have a drunken night every now and then...also the other thing that worrys me is it really is only me and my son i have no help not even my mum and dad ,,will i manage ?? Or is it that i wont be able todo things ?? Please help as very worried that im going to have this op and il still get horriffic pains after,, since coming out of hospital in januray ive lived on chicken and salad or chicken and veg every single day! And just water i cant bare it anymore even tho i do enjoy healthy eating :a