hello my name is julianna back in march of 2004 i had my gallbladder removed due to massive gallstones i was not feeling well before hand but since the surgery i have become extremely worse. Since then daily diarrhea, nausea, throwing up not able to eat much have lost 70 lbs.been to the doctors (many) abdominal pain intestinal pain have irritable bowel syndrome a spastic colon and a hiatal hernia but have not found those to be the source of my problem the doctors in the area are unable to help me spend lots of time in bed always feeling weak sometimes go days without keeping anything down was put on very strict diet for 9 months only ate meat(couple times a month small portions) few vegetables chicken broth and 7 up pears and bananas every thing else removed from my diet no dairy no fats nothing with flour or wheat being on diet was of no help saw no changes so have started eating regular again avoiding fats grease and most junk foods recently a doctor that i have just seen did some test and is saying that they messed up my gallbladder surgery something about the ducts that are still there are calapsed and have been since surgery of removal of gallbladder and is suggesting that is my problem that my total digestive track is in failure and am malnurished. has been suggested that i need to have shunts put in to open the valves (ducts) and then my digestive tract will function properly have been suffering 3 years so much pain daily diarrhea throwing up nausea felt like i have had a three year flu.if any one has any information to help please give me your advice was told the surgery is delicate and have to travel 4 1/2 hours to the closest specialists that can perform the surgery was told only the very top hospitals in the major cities like st louis and chicago ect have doctors that can do such surgeries have already had a hysterectomy (complete) appendectomy gallbladder knee surgery 2 cytoscopys tubal ligation cysts removed from ovaries 2times before removal of them and am dreading another surgery have also had surgeries for hemorage emergancy after my hysterectomy have mitral valve prolapse and taking heart medicine for it and my3lumbar vertebrea is crushed from car accident a year ago am afraid to go through another surgery if this is not the problem but have been extremely sick and needing to get better please offer some suggestions. God bless you for taking the time to read this and consider my situation:angel:

Julianna77,
Sorry you are having such a tough time of it. I have IBS, reflux and hiatal hernia... I had my galbladder removed after almost 10 years of pain in the side. I did not have near the issues you seem to be having. Somone told me it would take a year before I felt like I did before I had issues and they were right. However, it sounds like you are having a tough go of it. Suggest you do a little more research on the surgery. perhaps try a medical website like webmd or something like that. Wish you luck. Sorry I cannot give you more assist. It does take a while to fully recover even if all goes well.
Best of luck,
Crampster

Julianna77,
Forgot to tell you calcium does help slow the diarrhea down just try a little at a time or it will go the other way. Maybe try a tums or something like that as they have calcium. It you slow down the diarrhea at least that would be something.
crampster

Diarrhea can be helped with coconut milk or those coconut maccroon cookies....really works!!

Julianna, if your ducts are all collapsed then it sounds like your stomach is full of an immense amount of bile and you have bile salts diarrhea which I had before and after my gallbladder surgery on June 16th, due to an infection in my gallbladder. What caused it I will never know, but my symptoms were as yours are pre and post surgery. Then I found a real good GI doc about two months after GB surgery and he put me on a med called Colestid, 2 grams daily, and within 5 days I had almost normal stools and after three weeks the bile salts diarrhea was gone. It is now almost 4 months since surgery and I am eating regular foods except real greasy stuff. I know many, many people who have been put on this med since their surgeries including doctors and nurses and they are now eating normal and gaining weight back and NO MORE diarrhea! I was just thinking that you might mention that to your doc and get the diarrhea under control before anymore drastic surgeries. Good luck...keep us posted. Sophie