After Gallbladder sugery complications

[haleyg18]

I am 18. I had my gallbladder out 2 years ago. I was never given a reason as to why it needed out. I had every test imaginable done to me, after the last, I needed to have imediate next day sugery.. no real explaination why. But I was always sick, with stomach sickness, throwing up, fatigue.. etc. I never had the gall bladder attacks before the sugery, so we never thought it was that.

Now its two years later and I am in far more pain than I ever was before. I have had this happening to me since after my surgery.  I can't even describe this pain. It happens every morning, sometimes also happening periodically during the day. The pain is in the middle stomache, and it feels like it goes straight through my back. When this happens, I get pale, get really hot, and sweat. I curl up into a ball, or move around trying to help it. Nothing works, sometimes drinking water calms it for a second. These usually last 10 mins, but can last up to a couple hours. Its horrific pain, I cry, and scream. After I am so exausted I have to try and go back to sleep. I get have to use the bathroom right after every meal also.

Can someone at least help me try and figure out what causes this, and how to try and fix it. I have been to several doctors, all of them have no clue, and jsut want to do the same tests over and over. After awhile I just stopped going to them.

Thank you to anyone who can help me out!

[marqui]

I feel for you. I too have had more problems since having my gallbladder removed then I did before. Being in a rural area with poor medicine [well, anything that doesn't quite fit in the normal box] I've been diagnosed only with anxiety. So frustrating.  I have since looked into alternative medicines and while that in itself can be very confusing; I have found that following a low saturated/trans fat diet and mostly a primitive diet has helped me immensley!!!   However, once feeling better, I usually dive into the ice-cream and get away with it the 1st two days, but on the 3rd day, I double over in pain.
For fairly quick relief, I use natural calm [a magnesium citrate] drink, not only does this work against spasms, it somewhat dialates the bile ducts; allowing free-er flow of congestion.   The good additive to this, is you can't over dose on it, but the bad side is it works like a laxative.  
You MUST make dietary changes. It is NOT optional if you want to improve.  However, we are all human and will likely fall from time to time; just know in advance, that in 99% of all cases, it is diet/lifestyle related.

I sure hope this helps.

[CalGal]

Haley, problems can occur after GB surgery. Are you following a low fat diet? If not you may want to start one. GB surgery can result in not being able to process fats as well as you did before, and that could be part of the problem. With the pain you're describing, you need to ask the doc to do a liver and pancreatic enzyme panel within 24 hours of a severe attack of pain. It will give you some indication of whether or not your enzyme levels are elevated which can result from spasms of the common bile duct or sphincter of Oddi - the muscular opening of the common bile duct/pancratic duct into the duodenum. When that area spasms it can be hell.

It's something you can't afford to overlook. The spasms can fall under a condition called sphincter of Oddi dysfunction = SOD. If that's what is going on only someone well-trained in SOD might be able to help, so you'd have to seek out a specialist in that condition.

[lucirae]

Hi :)  I am so sorry you are going through this - so am I. Have you ever heard of post cholecystectomy syndrome? There is a lot of research being done on this topic. This syndrome has all the symptoms of a gallbladder  attack but it is actually a different underlying problem.  I wish you luck.