Gallbladder problems?

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  • JadeRabbit08
    JadeRabbit08 Posts: 551 Member
    Yep just went and checked your diary and you are often netting way under 1200 cal a day.

    Editing to add went and checked more of your diary..Seriously? 600 net, 800 net , 900 net.

    Please look at upping your cal to above your BMR you will still lose weight and if your can avoid too many fats it might be bearable until you can get something done. Once it gets to the fainting with pain stage I guess its a matter of getting the op?


    I no, but when i have an attack im scared to eat, hence the low cals..... I usually eat between 1200 and 1700


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  • hollyberry2012
    hollyberry2012 Posts: 239 Member
    I've had gallstones for at least 9 years...last attack I had was 8 years ago...from one lousy bite of ice cream. Haven't eaten ice cream since. LOL...pain is great deterrent for me! I was diagnosed when I was trying to get weight loss surgery, and the ultrasound tech said they were 'nice sized' lol...nothing nice about screaming in the back of an ambulance while everyone is standing around trying to figure out what is WRONG with you.

    anything HIGH in milk fats..is going to set me off..that's the gallbladder's function, breaking those down...now that I am on a diet, I hope that eating lowfat doesn't change anything 'in there'.....awful pain, just horrible!!!
  • quintala4
    quintala4 Posts: 1 Member
    When I was 18 I was in hospital with all those symptoms, they found I had a very large stone obstructing the bile duct as well as severe pancreatits. I was too scared to get it out then and after the big stone passed (utter agony!!) I went home. I actually had chinese medicines (absolutely vile herb tea) to dissolve the stones . this worked for a couple of years, but I wound up back in hospital where I needed emergency surgery to remove it.

    Before my surgery i couldn't eat any fatty things like full strength milk, butter and odd things like coffee and fish. I still can't eat butter or full cream milk, but I can now have fish and coffee. My belly is is very quick to tell me if I've eaten something it disagrees with, but I find that I can eat pretty much anything that has a fat content of <5g/100g. I was on a 0 fat diet for 2 weeks after my surgery.

    I also find that I do need to eat more little meals and quite regularly, especially breakfast. If I don't have breakfast almost as soon as I get up I'm sick for a lot of the day. It sometimes gets hard and I sometimes forget, but it helps me to eat healthier :)
  • kerriberry74
    kerriberry74 Posts: 62 Member
    I really feel for you- i've been there, although I never actually passed out from the pain, I spent a lot of time with my head hanging over the toilet. Usually if I had issues, i'd figure out the trigger and cut it out of my diet. When it was at its worst, I lived on bagels and whole grain toast. I was told to avoid things like dairy, caffeine, acidic foods, nothing fatty or greasy, basically a very bland, spice-less diet up until I had my surgery. Luckily it was only 2 mos. from the start of my problems that I got my gallbladder removed- I had 3 huge stones (considering what I had to pay out of pocket, I kept them. Gotta have something to show for it).

    Hang in there, avoid those foods that set off the pain. One thing that seemed to helped me, was to curl up with a heating pad on my stomach when that squeezing feeling started/was mild. No guarantees, it may have had more to do with it just being a comfort thing more than anything else, but it doesn't hurt to give it a try. Good luck!
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