About gall stones

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• 1 Quinn Jose // Apr 27, 2007 at 8:10 pm

  I have had my gallbladder removed. I wish I never did that. I now
  spend most of my day in the bathroom with diarrhea. The diarrhea is
  caused by the liver dripping bile as the gall bladder was there to catch
  the bile and store it until it needed to be used for fats. It now drips
  continuously into the intestine and causes diarrhea. I still have
  gallbladder pain most every day since the operation. Just not the acute
  attacks that sent me to emergency. I have been very much better since I
  did the gallbladder flushes and master cleanse routine that I did last
  summer and the regular cleansing that I have been doing every 3-6
  months since. I have still passed stones with no gallbladder so don’t
  let a Dr tell you that it will fix everything. All it fixed was the
  acute attacks. If I knew then what I know now I would not have gotten
  my gallbladder out.
  I know when to flush when the pain starts to crop back into the middle
  of my back radiating to my shoulder blade and arm. It feels like a
  
  classic gallbladder attack that has not gone into full attack mode. The
  diarrhea is the so incessant. 20-40 minutes after eating most
  anything. You can reduce the diarrhea, but you need to go fat free and
  that is very much a health problem waiting to happen, as the liver needs
  to be stimulated regularly to keep it in shape or the stones will start
  piling up in the liver. You need to change your diet to good fats for
  starters. Flax, coconut, and olive oils are very healthy for you and
  should be the majority of fat in your diet. Bacon and chocolate will
  be most likely a trigger for attacks from experience.
  I have heard from many people that have had this surgery and they all
  seem to complain about stones still being stuck in the bile duct or that
  they have passed stones since losing their gallbladder. Bile is made
  in the liver so it stands to reason that stones will be made in the
  liver as well.
  G Murray

• 2 babette400 // Apr 27, 2007 at 9:49 pm

  I have had my gallbladder removed. I wish I never did that. I now
  spend most of my day in the bathroom with diarrhea. The diarrhea is
  caused by the liver dripping bile as the gall bladder was there to catch
  the bile and store it until it needed to be used for fats. It now drips
  continuously into the intestine and causes diarrhea.
  Yep, I had mine out and I have the same problem. I’m taking Beta Plus now,
  which seems to help some, and when I go out to eat or whatever, to avoid
  being embarrassed because it’s like IBS big time, I now take one Caltrate with
  my
  meal. It slows it down so I can have a bit of a life. However, I don’t
  take my Cod Liver Oil if I do because the Caltrate has the Vit D in it too! I
  found out about the Caltrate from a person who had tried everything with IBS,
  even prescription, and nothing worked except the Caltrate. I can’t even
  enjoy salads like I used to because the lettuce is very difficult to digest
  with
  
  no GB. It just makes me sick! I love salads.
  Susie

• 3 babette400 // Apr 28, 2007 at 1:45 am

  i just read your post and i have IBS. what does Caltrate do exactly?
  I just take it with my meal and it slows up the diarrhea really good. I
  guess if you took too many throughout the day, it would constipate you. But
  the
  reason you use Caltrate is because you need calcium carbonate. So don’t get
  Citracal or whatever the other is. It’s the calcium carbonate that slows it
  down. It really does work, or it surely does for me, anyway. It’s been a
  jewel. I was taking immodium and that stuff is not too good for you.
  Susie

• 4 babette400 // Apr 28, 2007 at 5:42 am

  Well, I do not take it every day, only when I go out to eat or like we keep
  the Sabbath, I’m gone all day and have lunch at Bible study, so I have to have
  something. I’ve found that it does not upset my stomach at all. Normally
  I try to take natural things, but I have to admit that it surely does work
  and works great! I have never gotten constipated from it, but it really slows
  me down to where I have BMs in the morning before I leave, then I don’t have
  another one until I’m home at nighttime. Since I have the diarrhea so bad, I
  have to have something. Actually in the mornings it’s more like I’m
  homesteading the potty. I don’t mean to be crass, but it’s the truth!
  Susie

• 5 Gina Delta // Apr 28, 2007 at 9:50 am

  Wow where do you live that it costs 11,000?? Mine was maybe a fourth of
  that at most.

• 6 babette400 // Apr 29, 2007 at 1:15 pm

  Hi, Randi:
  I’m sorry that I haven’t gotten back to you sooner.
  No, I don’t know why we have problems with salads and some raw veggies. But
  I don’t think it’s just us. Years before I had my GB out, I did a little
  survey in calling some friends that I used to work at a hospital with. One was
  a dear friend who had her GB removed the old-fashioned way because they
  couldn’t do it the easier way. Well, she warned me about getting it removed
  because of all the digestion problems it causes. And she said, I can’t even
  eat
  salads anymore because lettuce tears me up, I can’t go out to eat anymore
  because of diarrhea after a meal, etc., if I would have known this, I would
  have tried harder to keep it.
  Thing is, Randi, I didn’t have as many digestion problems at first in the
  first couple of months right after my surgery. And here’s another thing that’s
  just plain weird to me. About 2 months after my surgery, well, probably
  
  started in late August in 2003, I started having bad allergy problems. For a
  long time in those few months I blamed it on the ragweed because it was the
  worst that year it’s ever been where we live out in the country. I was choking
  up, etc., all the time. Then since that time–even now–I’m still having
  those problems. I’ve started thinking lately that it’s because of no GB.
  But I have learned now with eating because of the digestive problems, to
  just eat small amounts. That’s about all I can do anyway now. Is that how you
  are? It’s my understanding that it’s because of the constant bile drip that
  it really fills us up.
  Oh, and here’s something. Recently my son-in-law, who is in the Army and at
  Ft. Hood, had to have a large cyst removed on his tailbone, which it was
  really, really gross. Such a deep hole he had when it was removed. So my
  daughter goes to the hospital right after his surgery to help him get ready to
  go
  home. It was a day surgery. Anyway, in the bed next to my son-in-law, my
  daughter overhead a doc talking to another Army guy who was fixing to have his
  GB removed. The Army guy said, Doc, can I eat anything afterwards? The doc
  replied, Sure, you’ll be able to eat anything! My daughter, because of
  knowing how I am, thought, yeah, sure, maybe two teaspoons at a time or maybe
  not
  that much.
  Susie

• 7 Janice Ethelene // Apr 29, 2007 at 11:20 pm

  Susie,
  This is interesting to me. I’ve had “allergy” problems all my life. Then gall
  bladder
  troubles in my 20’s and another 2 or 3 mild attacks 25-30 years later. I have
  had
  allergies for about a month now. I am wondering if these last gall bladder
  attacks are
  connected to my allergies. Can you tell me how allergies are connected to gall
  bladder trouble? I know each body system has an effect on the others, but I’d
  like to
  know about this particular connection.
  Thanks in advance,
  Kathleen

• 8 Neva Marjory // Apr 30, 2007 at 5:52 am

  You know my sister and mother are like that. They had no trouble
  after gall bladder surgery. They eat what ever the want. I can eat
  most anything but I have to be careful not to eat to much of certain
  foods. LIke no pigging out on fried chicken or other fried foods..
  Which is a good thing in a way I guess.

• 9 Quinn Jose // Apr 30, 2007 at 11:16 am

  Hi Kathleen,
  Allergies and asthma are directly related to gallbladder / liver
  issues. When the liver and gallbladder does not work and become clogged
  than the body can not get rid of toxins that accumulate and causes the
  body to have allergic reactions. When you clean the liver your allergy
  attacks go down in proportion. Most skin problems again are linked to
  the liver as the skin is the next largest organ for filtering out
  toxins. If the liver is not working the toxins are then pushed out the
  skin so then psoriasis, exzema, hives and other skin maladies become
  prevalent. When doing gallbladder cleanses the toxins leaving the body
  are great so they also manifest in allergies until the toxins can leave
  the body.
  G Murray

• 10 Janice Ethelene // Apr 30, 2007 at 11:00 pm

  Thank you, Randi! I would be interested in reading this.
  Kathleen

• 11 babette400 // May 1, 2007 at 12:45 am

  wonderful. I went into a bad depression after the gb surgery and I
  try to fight it as much as I can. All the great people here like
  you really do help me feel supported.
  Thanks so much, Randi. I’m glad that I can be of some kind of help on here
  even if I don’t have a GB anymore. And I don’t know why some of us have this
  problem and others don’t who have had surgery. It’s puzzling to me. I’m
  glad that they don’t have these problems, though. I surely don’t understand
  about the raw veggies either. I have found that I can deal with them when I
  juice them, which I need to be doing again. It would probably help me a ton!
  In my honest opinion, I think that doctors need to start really researching
  this and start helping people do flushes. What better way to do it than a
  controlled way? I never did have any emergencies in doing the flushes, but I
  have heard of others who did. Perhaps their GB was packed too full of stones
  or something to be flushing, I don’t know. No joke! They need to research
  this. Most doctors just laugh at you when you say you did flushes, or when I
  
  was in the ER, the ultrasound guy was really, really mean to me. I’ll never
  forget that either. The ERCP doctor accused me of witchcraft because of the
  stuff we drink to do the cleanses: olive oil, Epsom Salts and grapefruit juice.
  I don’t know if I ever told anyone this. I was so dopey from the drugs and
  sick and he was accusing me of witchcraft. What a narrow, sick mind some of
  these guys have, plus you can “arrogant” to the list.
  Well, I’d better go. I’m going to rest then get ready for bed.
  Take care,
  Susie

• 12 babette400 // May 1, 2007 at 8:39 am

  Hi Kathleen. Here’s one link that includes info about Dr.Breneman
  who studied allergies and gall bladder patients. (I believe this is
  the study that Dr. Jonathan Wright refers to in his writings.) He
  recommends eliminating certain foods to see if gall bladder symptoms
  may be related to a food allergy. According to his study, eggs
  caused the highest number of allergic reactions.
  When I had my GB, I couldn’t eat eggs at all. They pretty much always
  triggered an attack. They don’t bother me now.
  Susie

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