Post op gallbladder - Gallbladder Message Board

Kimberley~ · 03-14-2006, 11:43 PM

I had my gallbladder out a week and a half ago. After reading some of these posts i count myself lucky. I had heartburn for about a week but found those rolaid soft chews worked wonders.

My concern is the other end. After surgery did anyone get sever diarrhea that is like yellow orangish and quite mucusy. (sounds gross sorry i know) it's also i find has a similar smell to the bile infested pee you get if you get a blockage from a stone.

I'm just concerned as these runs don't seem to go away!!! I know if the food is fatty it seems to make it worse which makes sense given the way the body works now

but did anyone else experience the mucusy runny stools??

kehorner · 03-15-2006, 05:25 PM

This soon after surgery, you should be trying to avoid all fat. Like eat a total of 2 grams of fat a day. Toast, low fat soup, graham crackers, salad with nonfat dressing, veggies, egg substitute, chicken... Basically, nothing with fat. If the diarrhea continues even with a very low fat diet, your doctor can prescribe medication that will help it. The medicine is specifically designed for diarrhea caused by bile. If you feel better on a very low fat diet, in a week or so you can start very, very slowly adding in small amounts of fat. It took over a month before I was eating normal foods after surgery.

Kimberley~ · 03-17-2006, 10:55 PM

Thanks for the tip

my doctor never told me this stuff...........they didn't really tell me much at all....they were in a rush to get through 6 gallbaldder removal and 14 other sorta urgent surgeries. so i got very little told to me. didn't have a clue what to expect over it!

anyway they told me i could resume normal diet. YEA RIGHT!!!! i've lost like almost 12 lbs now YIPE in 2 weeks it will be tomorrow CRAZY

i'll see how that goes

Titchou · 03-18-2006, 07:18 AM

OH, no! Can't believe they told you that! No way can you resume a normal diet yet.
I was almost fat free for about a month and then slowly introduced fat back into my diet. Go slow on this and you'll be glad you did. The bile duct that they leave to take over the function of the GB needs time to kick in properly. I did have to give in to a Mexican food craving at about two weeks but I got take out and rbought it home anticipating trouble...good thing I did! Good luck.

kaylingr · 03-18-2006, 05:18 PM

Kimberley- so sorry you are having problems post-op too! I posted in another thread. I know the yellow-orange color means that the bile is not engaged. The bile gives stools their brown-green color. Breastfeeding babies often have yellow-orange stools because it is such an efficient food they don't need much bile.

-K.