Hi.
I had my first attack 36 weeks pregnant ..
Never had one since my baby was 3 months , had about 3 in a week.
Then haven't had one in 5 weeks and had one this week?
Only seems to happen when I eat from a greasy pizza shop.
I don't want surgery as I'm scared?
Would a diet help ?
Thank you
Hi Shannon,
I think you know the answer!! Avoid that greasy Pizza shop, lean meat and fish, lots of veg/salad, try and eat ceerals and things with skimmed milk, avoid too much butter and cheese.
Good luck.
If it only starts when you eat greasy foods, stay away from them, obvious your stomach reacts to these, also much more healthier for you, ;;
Hey Shannon,
SOrry to hear it, they are so scary! After I had 4 kids I started to get the attacks intermittently and tried the diet, exercise, natural remedy path for 3 years and ended up in emergency surgery with a gallbladder attached to my liver and wrapped up in my omentum. Thr surgery was excruciating and long and so was the recovery. Cut that thing out before it progresses is my advice. I am still recovering a week later and could've died if i had left it longer. It is serious and can rupture, especially if you have stones and attacks. I wish I hadn't read all those idiotic natural remedy posts and followed advice from people who clearly have no idea what they're talking about. I was fit as a fiddle before surgery and my surgeon was surprised by the condition of my gallbladder.
Hi Shannon
You have my sympathy.
I had my first really bad attack in July 2016 and had my cholecystectomy in February 2017. I found that even though I stuck to a really low fat diet, I gradually got worse. I had pain so bad, sometimes lasting 3-4 days at a time, I couldn't eat or sleep. I became exhausted. I passed out with the pain once. I got jaundiced and was in danger of sepsis and had to spend a week in hospital catheterised, on IV fluids and antibiotics and I had to have oxygen.
Gallstones are a serious condition and won't just disappear. As the previous responder has pointed out, the gallbladder can rupture causing peritonitis which is life threatening. Gallstones can also cause problems with other organs such as your liver and pancreas. I had open surgery owing to many large stones in my common bile duct and they had to reconstruct it. I spent a another week in hospital. I was only home a week when I started running a temperature and had to be readmitted. They told me they found a small growth in my gallbladder and I had to have further surgery only five weeks after my first surgery. (This is admittedly rare). I spent another week in hospital.
I am now recovering well and twelve weeks post op. I don't regret the surgery as it probably saved my life (most gallbladder cancers are found when they're inoperable). I no longer have the pain and I'm eating and sleeping well. My right side is still tender but no doubt that will improve in time.
What I'm saying is if you've had a diagnosis of gallstones don't hang about trying to control symptoms with diet. In the end you'll need surgery and it's best to have surgery before other complications arise.
thank you thank you thank you for this brilliant post. I am very naturally minded and follow all the natural groups and I am being told daily I am stupid for removing, herbs will heal it as will certain foods and my health will be ruined, it can be healed. I have tried for several months whilst I wait for the surgery with health foods, suppliments, naturpaths, herbs and even chanca piedra. I refused the flush as I have multiple mobile stones, so been told thats my only saviour and I am silly to refuse to try it. I have lost 14kg and almost underweight and suffer with reflux, IBS symptoms, nausea, gas, bloating, rib aches and had to remove most food groups. BUT at the moment I do feel the best I have for a long while despite still having minor symptoms.
My pre op is next week and been so worried about removing it and if I am making a mistak and not given the foods and herbs long enough.
They have no answer for the fact I have been paleo for years and half the foods and herbs I already consume are supposed to prevent them in the first place, obviously NOT!
SOrry for vile comment.
But today I've been to the toilet twice with green poo? Once was not loose but second time was loose with bits in like sand.
I've cut down a lot and gone to non fatty foods drinking apple juices etc.
Feel good in my self since,
Does anyone suggest this maybe flushing ?
The green in your motion is bile and the 'sand' is probably sludge (minute stones). Have you done a flush? I'd have been too scared to try anything that wasn't on medical advice but I know how it feels when you have the pain - you'll try anything to make it go away.
Even though flushes, ox bile supplements etc may (or may not) work, they will not work long term. Nor will a low fat diet get rid of stones. Low fat diet only helps control the symptoms until you have surgery. If your body has stones it will go on making more and more until the gallbladder is removed.
These days most people have laparascopic surgery. The recovery for this is two or three weeks compared to six to eight for open surgery. Yes you still have to have a general anaesthetic but scarring is less than with the open surgery and there will be pain from the gas they fill your abdomen with but it isn't long lasting or life threatening like the pain from gallstone attacks. Everyone is apprehensive about surgery. If you tell the surgeon and nurses in charge of your care, they are very sympathetic and will reassure you. Also the pain relief is good these days.
I don't have any pain in all honesty , I don't think it's gall stones ,
I think I have IBS
I don't get the attacks often enough I have had about 6 in the year to me which is indegestion and trapped wind.
Hey Star4w,
I'm a full week out now and feel amazing! I have had no digestive upsets and the pain is almost gone and the constant nausea I had before is completely gone. Hope your surgery goes well and you recover quickly!
Best