My Baby Doesnt Have a Gallbladder

I am 50 yrs old & I too was without a gallbladder. 7 stones recently completely blocked my bile duct thus causing liver failure. But after 4 procedures called ERCP's my liver is functioning again. Stones if present likely go to bile duct. Hope this helps you.

I am 51 yrs old and have never had any problems despite being born without a gall bladder.  I do have a sluggish digestive system, but other than that am healthy.  I have 2 grown healthy children as well.  I didn't even know I didn't have a gall bladder until I was in my early 40s. 

I know this is an old post, but hope that gives some encouragement to those new parents that are told their child has no gall bladder.  If there are no symptoms, then they could be just like me and live a normal life.

i HAVE NO GALLBLADDER  NEVER HAD A PROBLEM BUT i USE A LOT OF AMINO,VITAMINS,HERBS AND I'm PRETTY MUCH A VEGETATION I'M 65. FOUND OUT A YEAR AGO FROM X RAY FOR RIB INJURY. when i WAS YOUNG I WAS FRAIL GENTLE STOMACH,NEVER DRANK ALCOHOL,OR ORANGE JUICE MUCH.?  

I am 58 years old and just found out I did not have a gall bladder.  Never had any problems until 5 years ago.  I would bloat and lose weight.  I finally found a lifesaver for me.  Now when I am eating something hard to digest like meat, spicey foods, something made with "artificial" ingredients, I take a food enzyme first.  Now I understand why.

I just found out at 25 years old that I was born without a gallbladder after they FINISHED going in to remove it because they told me at the emergency room that I was "riddled" with gallstones. I have always eaten a very normal diet since I had no idea. I had issues with frequent vomiting after eating large meals or certain foods, but other than that have lived a fairly normal life.

I am almost 38 wks pregnant and my doctors are telling me they don't see a gallbladder on my baby.. I don't know what to expect so my husband and i are very worried :-( If anyone has been told this while they were pregnant and dealt with the out come please let us know your experience.

My sister's baby is also born with the same problem, So can u plz tell me your babys current status please please......

My nephew just passed away from bilary artresia tonight he was only 11 months old he went through surgery also I'm so sorry you are going through this my prayers go out to you and your family

I am 46 years old, but when I was about 17, I started to have pain in my abdomen (felt like severe indigestion). An utrasound was done that showed no gallbladder. My doctor said that this meant it was a severly a diseased gallbladder which doesn't appear on ultrasound. After going in for surgery to remove my gallbladder, the surgeon came out and said that I was born without it. After a few years, the pain went away and I have not had problems since. I did have some type of scan on my liver to be sure it wasn't inside my liver, but it wasn't. Hopefully, you can live a long life without your gallbladder. Good luck!!

Hi, I was born without a gallbladder too. I didn't know it until I was 25. Then I had some stomach problem, diarrhoea and some pain. When I went to the doctor, they didn't believe me I had no removal surgery. So the doctors sent me more and more precise exams to find out if I have gallbladder. In the end, after a period of exams (some very uncomfortable) they admitted I was born without it. I am 38 years old now, living a totally normal life. Coffey and fat food a bit difficult to digest for me. I have no special diet, but I had to learn to trust my feeling on what I like to eat or not. It wasn't easy to learn and trust on sometime strange eating habits, like 5-10 time small snack (can be fruit but sometime just some bite of food) . On my experience, if your child born without a gallbladder, than you have to let her eat what she/he feel like. More attention on what she/he doesn't want to eat probably is not good for her.

Hello im 34 yrs old and was born without a gallbladder found out at 26..I was very sick growing up and even sicker now ...Ive been on every anti acid there is almost and alot of other things ..now Im on pain pills cause the pain is so over welming ....I dont wish this on noone

Hello,I am so afraid as my infant is going through the first steps to diagnose if she has this Billyarie atresia. Hope all went well for you guys but can you please share more with me. We are so afraid and lost. Thx

My daughter have the same symptoms we found out six weeks after she was born

I'm a 55-year-old man. Born without a gall bladder. Only found out five years ago when I had an ultrasound. I'm perfectly healthy and have had no complications - no gallstones, no trouble with fatty foods, alcohol, etc. Nothing. I don't take any medications at all. Never been admitted to hospital. Zilch. Doesn't mean I won't get sick in the future, but so far I've been very lucky.
I only had the ultrasound as a result of a large scientific study into people who are healthy at 50 - a huge battery of tests - otherwise I would never have known. I was only selected because I am healthy.
It suggests to me that there are many others - perfectly healthy people - who have no gall bladder but don't know it because they've never been sick or tested. Advanced imaging technology is relatively new - it wasn't around when I was a kid.
One theory - the liver adapts to making more bile on demand to cope with a fatty diet in the absence of a gall bladder. (I eat a reasonably good diet and do regular exercise, but there's plenty of red meat, dairy and fatty food).
I only write this to reassure those women who've been told their babies/children are without a gall bladder. It doesn't necessarily mean they will experience ill-health - like me (and I'm sure there must be many others), they could live a perfectly healthy life free of medications and interventions.
I have two kids (both very healthy, thank goodness) and I know what it is to worry about them - so I hope this helps a little.

Good luck to you and your kids

My baby is having the same tests done next week and the dr. said she may not have a gallbladder either. Please tell me your baby is fine and everything turned out ok