I had gall bladder surgery about a month ago. I'm an avid runner. I run a mile and walk a mile, watch what I eat and noticed I was gaining weight around the midddle. I did more extensive research on life after gall bladder removal and was disappointed to find that you MUST have a fat free or low fat diet or you will gain weight, this is for the rest of your life. Doctors tell you to have a low fat diet but dont don't exactly go into depth about the seriouness of the after affects of no longer having one. Yes you can live with out it but you have to do your part in it to continue to have a normal life. It's very serious. You will not only gain weight but the liver has to work harder and the ability to produce bile to break down fats is no longer an easy task for our body. Bile seeps into the intestine and can cause problems. You need to take some kind of enzymes to balance out your system. I started taking a product called super digestaway. It has certainly changed my system. I feel better. I'm not associated or have anything to do for this product line, I just know its working for me. Check with your doctor. I realized that doctors don't go into dept conversation about how years down the road you can end up with liver cyst, or pancreatic cancer, other problems if you do not take care of your liver. If you have problems after the surgery, you need to get checked out by your doctor (a must) also ask about the digestive enzymes your body now needs and how he failed to tell you about that before your surgery. Do more research about it and you will be suprized at what you learn, don't take my word for it.
Hi I am 32 and I had my gallbladder removed after I had my first baby.
Now I keep pilling on the weight, especially on my stomach and I have not shed a single pound since the pregnancy. GP seems to think am depressed but am sure am not.
Any advice on how to lose this weight
Now I keep pilling on the weight, especially on my stomach and I have not shed a single pound since the pregnancy. GP seems to think am depressed but am sure am not.
Any advice on how to lose this weight
so long as you don't start eating all the fat you can after, you should not gain weight. Your gall bladder regulates bile and when you eat fatty food it spits out bile to digest your food and send fat where it needs to go.. now if your liver is just spouting it out when ever you eat any food with any content of fat then you should have wetter poops and faster digestion due to the over abundance of bile which would break your food down faster and be less likely to go to storage.. Obviously you are all eating more than you are supossed to take in of fat every day. Just because the pain is gone does not mean you have to eat a bag of chips, or a bowl a box of chocolate. Or return to red meat which takes how long to digest so as it is digested all the fat goes to your body and not out in your poop. I am finding hard to believe that anyone under the age of 23 has had their gallbladders removed? WTF? most people don't have gall problems until they have been pregnant... Which is when My problems started. If you have an IUD get it taken out, it causes weight gain, all forms of birth control other than spermacides and condems .. cause weight gain. up to 50 lbs even or more. They make your body think you are pregnant so that you do not release eggs meaning your body will automatically store more fat for energy than it needs to. Also Birthcontrols DO screw up your hormones, and your thyroid handles all of your hormones including MEtab if your thyroid count is above 420. then you have hypothyroidism, if it is under .20 then you have hyperthyroidism. So if you are hypothyroid you need meds to produe T4 to make T3 which converts into all of your hormones.. and if you do have to take thyroid meds, you will gain weight whether they are for hypo or hyper. it is a myth that thyroid meds will make you lose weight. I know I am Hypothyroid.. but once your thyroid is regulated to what it should be you will then have more energy to excersize and do house work and sleep properly. Also if you are staying up all hours of the night and not getting enough sleep you will gain weight. keep that in mind. People who get at least 7 hrs sleep to 10 hrs of sleep are less liekly to gain excessesive weight.
I am having my gallbladder out in a few weeks and im really scared. Do you have a scar afterwards or how does it work? and will i gain weight??
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Guest wrote: Before my gallbladder was removed in March of 2005. I was over 200lbs from take out food addiction. I was diagnosed of gallstones and One at the size of a twoonie and smaller ones along the side. I had painful, annoying symptoms, so much like labour pains (vomitting, lower back ache, front abdomen pain like butterflies, heartburn and sleepless nights) always triggered after eating greasy foods and sodas. Since the gallbladder got removed I lost tremendous amount of weight for the first few months (damn I was happy). Suddenly my body healed up and I was able to get back to enjoying life, which I thought the nightmares were over. Back to eating anything I wanted FAILED!! This time I got extra work to do to keep myself in shape and keep the weight off. I researched about gallbladder loss and weight gain. I found that the gallbladder is a small organ that AIDS mainly in FAT DIGESTION, meaning anyone who has no gallbladder we need to be EXTRA careful in digesting any type of food. We need to start healthy by eating the worst card board foods but in the long run you get use to it ;) . WHOLE GRAIN, vitamins & iron, antioxidant foods - fruits & vegetables, more of fish & chicken, less of red meats, more fiber, Use Olive & Vegetable Oils, avoid alcohol & tobacco, exercise lightly. Every so often I take a cleanse with Milk Thistle, Green Tea & Colon Cleanser. So Far, everything is A-Okay, Just as long as I stay on track! I hope this is helpful.
Does having your gallbladder removed cause weight gain?
HI. HMMM. I am not sure about the marina. I had it put in and also have an underactive thyroid....i ballooned, had major skin beak out and was very moody.....
I had the marina removed after 6 months!!!
Goodluck!!
I have ALWAYS been a tiny girl. I am 34yrs old, 164cms tall and Since i can remember i have always weighed 50kgs and never go higher than 52kgs no matter what i ate. I actually struggled to put weight on when my doctor suggested i needed to put a little on, no matter what i ate and did zero excerise i still have never been able to gain weight. In fact if i had a few days were i was just really pre-occupied with my kids or other stuff and ended up eating only 1/2 what i usually ate within a week i would drop very quickly down to 45kgs which is a really dangerously low weight!! Had to go on protein etc drinks 5 times a day on top of my normal food just to get back up to my usual 50kgs.
Anyhow I had my Gallbladder removed... all stayed the same for about 6mths and WOW now its been down hill ever since! Im gaining weight at the rate of 1kg a week... not a good thing :-( I have been eating the healthiest diest possible, excersisng my butt off ( i kid you not... i dont stop all day with vigorously cleaning my 7bdrm, 3 bath etc 2 storey home, along with chasing after 4 kids, i stop and do 1 hour of Zumba, more cleaning and kids stuff, stop and do half hour on the bike then half hour on the stepper and then back to cleaning & kids stuff til bed time). This is extreme excersise and dieting i am doing and im still gaining weight :-( gosh you'd think with everything i would start losing some weight or at the very least maintain my current weight...but nope!
Research i've done AND my doctors have told me it's likely this weight gain is because of my gallbladder removal (its 100% the only thing that has changed in my body or life since it's removal or leading up to it's removal).....
Do people need their gallbladder?
Fortunately, the gallbladder is an organ people can live without. Your liver produces enough bile to digest a normal diet. Once the gallbladder is removed, bile flows out of the liver through the hepatic ducts into the common bile duct and directly into the small intestine, instead of being stored in the gallbladder. Because now the bile flows into the small intestine more often, softer and more frequent stools can occur in about 1 percent of people.
Keep in mind though that the Bile stored in your Gallbladder was a stronger concentrated bile that was only released into the body when the gallbladder was told by your body that based of something extra fatty you just ate (or just more fattier than the usual food your eat) that it needs that extra concentrated (stronger) bile. So with NO gallbladder that means no concentrated bile. Because you now have standard bile now flowing into your small intestine way more often that when you did have a gallbladder JUST REMEMBER that yes you have bile flowing there more frequently BUT it's not as concentrated and it's just naturally flowing there at any given time now, it's not flowing in there because it got triggered because you just ate, it's flowing there just because that's the way it works now! So keep in mind that because it's now flowing them a purely random times it doesn't mean that it's going to fall in perfect timing and just happen to flow in there at the exact time you eat something... if it flows in then when you eat that's PURE LUCK now.
SO YEAH in short i guess something to remember is ... 1- your bile is not as strong as it used to be back when you had a gallbladder so it will NOT have as good of an effect in helping you digest & break down fats as it did before. and 2- your bile is now flowing into your small intestine more often but flows in there anytime it wants, it's no longer triggered by your body to flow in at a the specific time you eat so that you can digest & break down fat much easier.
Hope this helps some people to at least know what's going on with how things work. I am yet to figure out a solution to stop the weight gain and adjust to having alot less concentrated biled than i used to have or to find a product that may work similar to the way the concentrated bile worked.
Kind Regards to all xo
I just had my gall bladder removed.The doctors will also tell you there is no pain.Thats not true atleast in my case.I was in pain for three days and the pain medication didn't help much.I also have noticed other people have gained weight after gall bladder surgery.That concerns me because I have that tendency.
yes i have noticed in the past month i can feel my stomach streching from being bloated burping bile and puky taste in my mouth it's awful im just full of this bile gas from head to toe and i have had mine removed for about 3 months or 4 crazy i don't know whats going on with my body but i def. know something is wrong and i do believev that it is caused from having mine removed.
You just explained my life exactly! I'm 46 also and had my gallbladder removed last March and I've gained almost 25 lbs. I've never weighed this much. Even pregnant. I've never had to watch my weight. I'm so frustrated. I don't know what to do. I've tried diets and nothing seems to help!!! HELP!!!
Hi, I'm currently 24, but I had my gall bladder removed when I was 16. I had gall stones piled up like crazy and they clogged the tube between bladder and liver, suffocating it. The bladder died inside my body and I had to have it removed. I find it very, very difficult to lose weight. I also am one of the individuals who suffer from chronic diarrhea, which is unfortunate, but something I live with. The only times I have been able to lose weight since then is by cutting out carbohydrates from my meals. Fat is truly what is keeping us fat, so if you can do it, be my guest-- I love bread too much.
Also, someone commented on finding it hard to believe anyone could have their gall bladder removed before "23"-- I was 16, like I said, and the doctor informed me that the only time that children my age have their gall bladder removed is when they have Native American in their blood. I'm 1/32nd Native American (which is nothing, really, and I don't look it at all), which is apparently why this was able to happen to me. It's uncommon for anyone under 40, even, needing it removed generally occurs during menopause.
Did you already have it out? If it is not an emergency, DON'T!!! It is one of the most popular surgeries now, and it's no fun without it. You have to watch everything you eat and you will still have pain. If they tell you it's not working anymore and your food still digests without gaining weight then it is still working. God Bless You!!!
I just had my out this afternoon and the after-surgery pain is nothing compared to the pain of a gallbladder attack!!
You're pretty much an id**t. Anyone can have GB problems. I'm 30 and in fantastic shape. I wear a size 0. Exercise, take Bikram yoga and have NEVER been pregnant. I've always been a health nut. GB problems run in my family. Mine has 2 small polyps and has simply stopped working. So, stop being so stereotypical in your thoughts.
Yep, and so am I!!! Are you a doctor? I doubt it "guest", so get off this site... How RUDE of you to resume that someone would make this up...I am 38 years old and have maintained a 123-125 lbs. body weight for years...but since my surgery, I'm over 130 , eating barely anything and still gaining weight....know what you're talking about before expressing you ignorant opinion...