[alpayton]

While you're pregnant, your gall bladder basically stops secreting bile to digest the fat that you're eating so that your body can store the fat that you eat for your baby, rather than digesting it. Or so that's the way I understand it. Once you have the baby, the gall bladder is supposed to start secreting bile once you eat a fatty meal. My gall bladder never did start secreting bile again. Whenever I would eat something fatty/greasy after having my son, my gall bladder would attempt to secrete the bile and stones inside the hepatic duct would block that secretion and cause excruciating pain. It would start in the front, just under the rib cage and radiate around towards my back...almost like a kidney pain (if you've ever had one of THOSE!). Nothing you can do will ease the pain of a gall stone attack. There is no position you can get into that will make it feel better, the only thing you can do, is tough it out until the fatty content has passed on thru and your body no longer feels the need to secrete that bile to digest that fat. Let me tell you....IT HURTS! I had my gall bladder removed when my son was just 7 weeks old via laproscopic surgery. I have one scar that is about an inch and a half long on the upper portion of my belly. I have a couple of puncture marks (look like chicken pox scars) where the probes went in and I have another slit where they pulled the gall bladder out thru my belly button. (You can hardly see that one, unless I knew it was there, I wouldn't know myself.)

I NEVER have a problem with those type pains anymore. Only problem I have now is if I eat too much of a greasy meal or too much green leafy stuff (lettuce for instance). I will not get graffic...but you can figure out what happens. If bile is stored up in the gall bladder and released when you eat a fatty meal and you no longer have a reserve supply for those times. Then you eat a really fatty meal, what do you think would happen to all that undigested fat? EWWW!