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tjay

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I recently had a trip to the emergency department with severe upper abdominal pain that turned out to be gallstones. I have been told I will need to have my gall bladder removed soon as it is only a matter of time before the pain will return.

I was just wondering if anyone out there has had problems with their gall bladder or have had the surgery and if so, have you experienced any unwanted after effects??

Thanks.
 
Galstones are common for people that are over weight or people who lose weight quickly. I was diagnosed with mine a year after I lost fifty pounds in five months. (Not really quick, but significant)
Anyway yes I had to have it removed. It was about a month to six weeks of recovery. It wasn't a huge deal.
The only thing that I have noticed, and that I have heard from others is that you may have an intolerance to codeine afterwards... This is not scientifically proven, it has just been conversation among myself and several others that had the surgery??
Anyway if you have questions, please don't hesitate to PM me.
Paulette
 
Hey I got mine removed almost a year ago...for years I had those sharp pains you talked about...I had to brace myself on something I was near...so eventually they started getting really bad and happenning alot...I had a stone the size of a golf ball, LOL...
I was scared shitless, first and only surgery Ive had...I mean ive had kids but that is different...anyway the surgery itself was ok but the recovery for me really sucked...it took me I think 2 months to even start feeling normal and such, I got a few infections and couldnt move hardly for days and the incision itself bleed for the longest time but I recovered ...
I noticed that i feel alot better and no longer get heart burn, very rarely as apossed to before...anyway as someone said you dont need it or they obviously wouldnt remove it...but my dad recovered from his kidney replacement faster than I recovered from my gull stone operation, his bill of health was cleared long before mine, LOL...kinda funny actually...It also made my period alot lighter and nicer to deal with...
 
Hello

I had mine removed 8 years ago now, by key hole surgery, it took many trips to the doc and several tests before they thought it was my gall bladder.

After seeing my surgeon he rushed me into surgery the very next day as the stones were in the duct of my gall bladder ready to fall into my pancrease and he said if that happened i'd die.. oh my god, i was in the next day and back home again the following day after that.

The pain was so bad i used to get very hot and almost pass out, i usually had to have a sleep after the attacks and was nasause for 3 days after.
Things i could not eat full cream milk, pineapple juice and anything with a high fat content.

I was dieting when i first got the attacks. go figure.
I've just had a baby 6 months ago and the pain is sorta different but i had a back ache labour so the back pain was similar, but attacks don't last too long.

good luck with it all
di
 
I'm just 4 months after having gall bladder removed. I never knew I had gallstones either and suddenly I had a severe attack and got diagnosed with acute pancreatitis. I had a stone lodged in my cystic duct and this had caused all the pain. I had surgery a few days later as the risk of having another pancreatic attack was high.

I had the surgery with no complications and was back at work within 3 weeks. Eating the Cohen's way actually has helped me with my recovery as fats are not tolerated very well. Cheese sometimes makes me feel bloated but everyone is different.

Good luck with your decision.
 
hi everyone,

I had my gallbladder out 10 years ago. I didn't have the pain you are talking about but i was very sick and the doctors couldn't work out what was wrong. They were doing an ultra sound and found a mass in my abdomin and a toxic gallbladder, it was at exploding size as it had 50 gallstone in it, the doctors though it maybe cancerous not thank the lord it wasn't. No wonder i feel sick. I wasn't as luckly as some ~ no key hole surgery i have a 10cm scar rear my ribcage and a 60cm scar on the bikini line. In that 10 years i put on 30kgs so eating Cohens has done more than make me loss weight, it has made me feel so much better.

If you are going to have yours removal make sure it is through key hole surgery as the recovery is much better and stay away from fatty creamy food forever, drink lots of water each day and you will feel much much better.
Jewls:rolleyes:
 
Thank you all for the replys.

As it turns out the day after I posted this thread I had another trip to the emergency department and had my gall bladder removed on Friday by keyhole surgery. I am still very sore but I am quite nauseous and had alot if trouble keeping down anything. Just the smell of most foods makes me want to vomit at the moment. I didn't eat anything for 3 days and could not even keep down water. Things are slowly getting better and I mean slowly.

Hopefully in the next few days I will be eating normally again and feeling much better.

Thanks agaion for the replies.
 
Thank you all for the replys.

As it turns out the day after I posted this thread I had another trip to the emergency department and had my gall bladder removed on Friday by keyhole surgery. I am still very sore but I am quite nauseous and had alot if trouble keeping down anything. Just the smell of most foods makes me want to vomit at the moment. I didn't eat anything for 3 days and could not even keep down water. Things are slowly getting better and I mean slowly.

Hopefully in the next few days I will be eating normally again and feeling much better.

Thanks agaion for the replies.


I am sorry to say but Cohen diet really does put a big strain on your gallballader as all the waste that is being pushed out of your liver is causing your gallbladder to become supersaturated (thick) with cholesterol.

Most of us know that fatty diets causing gallstones, which is true. So how can a very unfatty diet like Cohen cause big problems?

Here is my idea.

Gallstones are mostly Cholesterol, cholesterol that has crystalized out of the "gall" that is excreated from your liver.

Cholestrol is of cause a big component of fatty tissues. The more animal fat you eat the more cholestrol will need to be dumped into your bile and hence collected in your gallbladder, the more fat we eat the richer the chloesterol content of your bile and hence the greater the chance of gallstones forming; cholesterol cystals solidifing from the bile in your gallballder.

So now the question why would a very low fat diet of Cohen cause gallstones, or in my cause cause my Gallstones to get bigger? Being very low fat would expect my gallstones to get smaller rather than bigger or at least stay the same.


My answer to this riddle is simple, remember we get gallstones by eating too much fatty foods made from animals. In other woods our gall gets supersaturated with cholestrol forming gallstones when our bodies metabolise too much animal fat. Now the trick is to consider that animal fat, also can include the animal fat that is part of you. On Cohen or any low calorie diet your body is metabolising (eating) YOUR FAT and hence releasing lots of cholestrol that from the fat that was part of YOU. If you are losing 1.5KG of fat per week then your body has to deal (metabolise) with 1.5KG of "fat" worth of cholestrol.

So imagine you ate 1.5KG of chicken fat per week or dieted losing 1.5KG of your fat, for your gallbladder, gall and liver the amount of cholestrol needing to be excreated is the same.
 
Adding my bit to the gall bladder story

I had my gall bladder out in 2000 at age 32. I had a genetic predisposition to have gall bladder problems - my mother also had hers out early, and a few generations back my GGGrandmother died of gall blader problems back in the 1920s.
I was lucky enough to have keyhole surgery (by the way, the surgeons decide this when they go in through the keyhole and actually have a look at the state of your gallbladder with the camera - if there are likely to be problems with the keyhole - they will do it the old way - very messy and painful and leaves a huge scar). 95% of the time they are able to do it keyhole.
I have never looked back! Dont be scared of this surgery, it is so much better than gall bladder attacks.
I was back to work within 3 weeks and felt completely better after about 6 months. Initially I was having a few digestion problems. How to say this delicately.....lets just say that the contents of the toilet bowl were very liquid and very raw for quite some time.
Greasy foods still dont agree with me. They make me feel very nauseous.
But dont hesitate - get the damned thing out if it troubles you!
Cath
(PS After my op, the assisting surgeon brought in a little specimen bottle full of gallstones for me. I asked if they were actually mine and she got a little embarrassed, and said she wasn't sure. Every time they do a cholycystectomy (gosh I love that word) they bring a jar of gallstones up - LOL - There must be a big vat of them somewhere in the hospital)
 
I had my gall bladder out seven years ago after suffering attacks for more than a year. I was so freaked out about the surgery i wanted to do everything to avoid it. When I finally got around to the surgery i couldn't believe how easy it was (keyhole). I was up and about the same day and back at work in two weeks. I have been able to eat anything since and have had no more problems with it. Lucky I guess! I did only have one 2.5cm stone though.
 
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Hi, I have 3 gall stones. I think I've had them for years. I've only been on Cohen's for 6 weeks & so far no problems. My consultant recommended waiting until I reach my goal weight to have anything done about them. I must admit I'm a bit nervous. Luckily I don't like rich, creamy food. I hope they don't grow too much, cheers, Cate
 
I'm a radiographer and do Ultrasound.You would be amazed at how many people have gallstones. I have only been doing scans for a year so far and I have lost count of how many gallstones I've seen.
I'm hoping I don't have to suffer them myself as they sound extremely painful.
get well soon
 
I too had some pains in my gall bladder area during the first 1-3 weeks of the diet. However, as my weight loss slowed, the pains went away. (I had this when I was pregnant too--all the time. The doctor told me then it was common for preg women to have gall bladder trouble.) Besides these two times, I haven't had any gall bladder trouble. Andrea
 
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