Please Help, Doctors all say I'm Normal, But I' in pain

The trouble began during the summer. I was so sick that I would go days without eating for fear of vomitting. After going to Urgent Care I found out I had gallbladder disease and was set up for surgery within the week. There were complications during the surgery due to the severe inflammation and I had to stay in the hospital. I was fine for a week or two after recovery, then things took a turn. It started at restaurants. Before I had even finished my meal, I would have to use the bathroom --- explosively, painfully (OW! Is there a #$%@ cannon in there?-ily). Every time I would go out to eat, I'd experience severe stomach cramps and have to race home to avoid accidents. I saw my surgeon about it and he said to not eat too many fatty foods and take some pills - claiming it was just a weird side-effect that would go away. Then it started to happen after every meal. Every day. A gastroenterologist suggested it may be bile salt disorder and gave me some disgusting powder to drink every day. Works mostly, meaning I usually only sob on my toilet once a week now. Then there was blood. At first a little pooling in my underwear, then every two weeks or so it would (and I'm not kidding) shoot out of my anus. So they did a colonoscopy -- and told my I was healthy. My bottom turned into a device straight from a horror director's dream, but that's obviously just a normal thing. No big. Life goes on. Now I have to go every day again (explosively) only now it's mostly liquid (when it isn't busy being medium-sized balls of really watery playdough) oh... and it's also bright green (dish soap green, Nickelodeon gak green). I now have to go to the bathroom (no matter what I eat) while I'm eating it. I've lost nearly twenty-five pounds after the first month of surgery.

Please, someone tell me what's wrong with me. Every doctor I've seen (eight: ER doctors, gastroenterologists, surgeons, general practitioners, etc) says that I'm either fine or just suffering from some temporary side-efffct of surgery. My surgery ws on August 13th... this no longer feels temporary. It hurts so much and it's really startinbg to limit the way I live.

[ayri]

hi, i think you might be fructose or lactose intolerant, there are breath tests for these disorders.

[CalGal]

If what the doc gave you was a bile-binding resin like questran, and the biggest problem seems to be the explosive (without major upper RQ) pan like you might have had before you had your GB out, what you're experiencing is probabaly due to the fats in the foods you're eating. Like a number of people, you probably can't process fats the way you did before surgery and the best way to remedy that is going to be to stay on a very low fat diet. The condition may or may not change over time. For some it does, for others it doesn't.

And if you return to a low fat diet and stick to it, a change isn't going to happen overnight. It's going to take time.