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Your gall bladder acts as a little reservoir of bile acids. When you eat a fatty meal, bile is needed to help your body break down and digest the fat. In people who still have their gall bladder, eating that fatty meal causes the gall bladder to contract and release the needed bile into the small intestine to facilitate the fat digestion. Once your gall bladder has been removed, the doctor hooks up your bile duct to your small intestine directly and there is a constant small trickle of bile into your small intestine. Your body can no longer control the amount of bile released into your digestive tract.

Now for most people this isn't a big problem, they do just fine anyway. But some people have a touchier stomach than others and they can run into a bit of trouble after gall bladder surgery. If you eat more fat in a meal than that trickle of bile can handle, you may get some diarrhea from the undigested fat (just like taking a dose of mineral oil as a laxative!) Conversely, excess bile is irritating to some people and if you are not eating enough fat to use up the trickle of bile you can also have some digestion problems. Sometimes its obvious that there is a lot of bile in the stools, and if that is the case you can get a bile acid binding drug (cholestyramine) from the doctor that can be helpful.

Try paying attention to your fat intake versus your symptoms and see if any of this makes sense for your problem. By watching your fat intake you may be able to improve your symptoms.

Good Luck!