Your gallbladder basically stores (and then secretes) bile that your liver produces until it needs to be used to digest food. There is a main bile tube that carries bile from the liver to the intestines - the gall bladder is a "branch" of this tube. So removing the gall bladder does not disrupt the flow of bile to the intestines...it just gets rid of a place to store bile.
While you do not have to entirely limit your diet after surgery, my doctors recommended that I "work my way into" eating fatty foods again. Before surgery, they wanted me on a "no to low" fat diet...I was basically eating only 5-10 grams of fat per meal. I'm still on a low fat diet (but now it's more like a max of 50 grams of fat a day), but mostly because of the fact that I wanted to be eating healthier (and because fat content does affect my IBS and acid reflux whoo!).
You may still have IBS. Like I said, digestive issues were always a problem for me...I was diagnosed in high school, after thinking for about 1.5 years that I was lactose intolerant. None of the medications helped me, but my GI doctor said it was unlikely they would anyway. Eating a more fibrous diet (along with citrucel...had to be that one as it was the "right" type of fiber) helped a lot. Avoiding triggers obviously helps. Reducing stress helps. That's pretty much it tho, eh?
Nausea was the worst while I was waiting to have my gallbladder out! It was debilitating and it was hard for my friends to watch me go through because I would eat a tiny meal and not be able to eat anything else and then start feeling like I was going to throw it all up. I hated it so much. As soon as I woke up from surgery, I was all FOOD NOW (http://edge-ofthe-sea.livejournal.com/127500.html), hahahaha....because I finally was no longer nauseated.
I certainly don't have all the symptoms of PCOS (or endo), but you certainly don't need to have all the symptoms to actually have them. Obesity/weight gain/elevated insulin/high cholesterol/high blood pressure/diabetes are all things that could come later...some times they don't come at all, if you get treated, which is yet another reason to figure out what's going on with your situation. Sleep apnea often comes from obesity and such, rather than PCOS/endo. I have the "skin patterns" of someone with PCOS, but that just means that my armpits have "slightly darker, but velvety skin". I also gained a lot of weight (about 70 lbs), but I'm still pretty sure most of that was from a medication I was on (weight gain/loss corresponded w/ going on or off or changing the dosage level of it...which I had done multiple times)...but was probably exacerbated by the PCOS. High cholesterol/BP runs in my family, but again, could be exacerbated by the PCOS. The pain always being on your left could be cysts on your left ovary and/or endometrial tissue that has left the uterus and attached itself to another organ/bone/tissue.
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Date: 2010-02-23 11:03 pm (UTC)While you do not have to entirely limit your diet after surgery, my doctors recommended that I "work my way into" eating fatty foods again. Before surgery, they wanted me on a "no to low" fat diet...I was basically eating only 5-10 grams of fat per meal. I'm still on a low fat diet (but now it's more like a max of 50 grams of fat a day), but mostly because of the fact that I wanted to be eating healthier (and because fat content does affect my IBS and acid reflux whoo!).
You may still have IBS. Like I said, digestive issues were always a problem for me...I was diagnosed in high school, after thinking for about 1.5 years that I was lactose intolerant. None of the medications helped me, but my GI doctor said it was unlikely they would anyway. Eating a more fibrous diet (along with citrucel...had to be that one as it was the "right" type of fiber) helped a lot. Avoiding triggers obviously helps. Reducing stress helps. That's pretty much it tho, eh?
Nausea was the worst while I was waiting to have my gallbladder out! It was debilitating and it was hard for my friends to watch me go through because I would eat a tiny meal and not be able to eat anything else and then start feeling like I was going to throw it all up. I hated it so much. As soon as I woke up from surgery, I was all FOOD NOW (http://edge-ofthe-sea.livejournal.com/127500.html), hahahaha....because I finally was no longer nauseated.
I certainly don't have all the symptoms of PCOS (or endo), but you certainly don't need to have all the symptoms to actually have them. Obesity/weight gain/elevated insulin/high cholesterol/high blood pressure/diabetes are all things that could come later...some times they don't come at all, if you get treated, which is yet another reason to figure out what's going on with your situation. Sleep apnea often comes from obesity and such, rather than PCOS/endo. I have the "skin patterns" of someone with PCOS, but that just means that my armpits have "slightly darker, but velvety skin". I also gained a lot of weight (about 70 lbs), but I'm still pretty sure most of that was from a medication I was on (weight gain/loss corresponded w/ going on or off or changing the dosage level of it...which I had done multiple times)...but was probably exacerbated by the PCOS. High cholesterol/BP runs in my family, but again, could be exacerbated by the PCOS. The pain always being on your left could be cysts on your left ovary and/or endometrial tissue that has left the uterus and attached itself to another organ/bone/tissue.