Galstone help

Hi, it can affect your weight when you have gall bladder issues. Especially if the stones are blocking the tubes which release bile into your intestines. It can cause your body to think it needs to store fat.

Go talk to a GI specialist! I dropped 15 pounds a week after I had mine out and have had steady success since. Plus, no more painful trips to the ER. It's usually a non-invasive outpatient laparoscopy. Easy !

I had mine out, but it didn't do anything for my weight. A lot of people lose weight simply due to the fact that for a few years, high-fat foods (peanut butter, or creamy salad dressing to name a couple) can agitate your stomach because you no longer have a place to store excess fat. It was YEARS before I could have PB again. Not everyone has that problem, but it's possible. If you're already counting calories, removing those foods from your diet won't affect your weight loss success.

Get it out, the stones can block up your duck work (pancreas) and it could rupture. This is very serious.
Good Luck

At my heaviest, I was "packed" with gallstones. The doctor's actual words...PACKED! It was as awful as it sounds. So I had it removed and the weight did seem to shed easier. I have no idea why.

I had the weird digestive issue too, where I couldn't eat fatty foods without utter misery. I'm just now, several years later, able to eat some of the foods again. There's several that I just can't eat anymore tho because they made me so sick before that mentally, I'm so turned off by them I just can't do it. No more cheesecake for me.

Good luck with everything. I remember my worst attack (before I knew it was my gallbladder) - I had never experienced pain that bad before. Your attacks are mild now, hopefully that will be enough to get your doc to recommend you remove it. The surgery was very very easy and fast recovery. If you've gone through childbirth, I'm sure it will seem even easier to you.

Yeah I should add... I mean I made a point to say I was at my heaviest because I DID indeed lose ALOT weight after my surgery, but I can't say it was thanks to the surgery itself. And I don't think I personally gained weight because of having gallstones. I gained weight because I ate chips and candy bars and soda and junk all day (comforting myself in food). It was probably that behavior that gave me the gallstones! As far as losing weight after... maybe I just felt better overall after the surgery, so I was more active without realizing? Added with cutting out the fatty foods that I couldn't digest? Who knows. So whatever the doc recommends... You might lose weight just from not getting bogged down by gallbladder attacks.

Talk to your doctor. While your gallbladder is necessary up to a point, gallstones can become very serious very fast. I lost more weight before my surgery because I waited too long (it took a long time to figure out it wasn't my heart and get proper treatment) and couldn't keep anything down. However, that said after surgery, between having to change my diet away from fats and add a fiber supplement to control the effects of not having a gallbladder anymore I did lose a few more pounds. Which I then gained back with interest because I felt better and could keep food down again.