I had my gall bladder removed several years ago and the next few years after the surgery were horrible! I was having diarrhea attacks sometimes up to 10 times a day. When I would eat anything, it seemed to go right thru me. I am now taking a pill called Welchol. It is actually a cholesterol medicine. It isn't absorbed by your body, so the side effects are few. It binds to the bile that use to be stored in the gall bladder. My Dr. said that the bile is just like having a laxative all the time, for some people. The Welchol has been like a miracle for me! I can actually eat out now without having to run right to the bathroom. It would be worth you time to check it out. I hope you get help soon!

I had my gallbladder surgery about 15 years ago as an emergency procedure. Since I was in my twenties at the time, they misdiagnosed it until I was jaundiced, dehydrated and had a seriously inflamed pancreas.

I suffered the "dumping syndrome" quite a bit, and as a previous poster said, it will get better. It slowly got better for me over a period of about a year. Sorry, but that's the truth. (I was slow to figure out the food/dumping connection.) I still have an occasional issue, but only a couple of times a year now.

One thing I have noticed is the fatty and fried foods connection. Stay with me here for a minute...I know you think it's okay for you to eat anything in the evening, but I have found that meals can "build". I might have a fatty meal and not feel it until the next day or I might feel it immediately. So, try an elimination diet for a couple of weeks. Avoid all foods you have reacted to and see what happens. Your breakfast issues might be related to the night before.

We have some really great Lactose free milk in our supermarket and that helps as well.

Hugs Sweetie! Been there and done that. Yes, it was a real problem for awhile, but I am personally very glad to be alive and pain free. :thumbup:

Wow! I wish they'd had that after my surgery. :)

hey Judy! thanks! this morning i just had crackers and a banana...around 1 pm i had chicken nuggets and for supper i had a burger... and i've been GREAT today!!! but now i see what you are saying and i'll try and avoid all fatty foods for a while! see hwo it goes.. tomorrow i'm just going to have fruit tomorrow until noon then i'm going to have half a proscuitto sandwhich and have the other half around supper and see how that goes... i wish i could have more for breakfast but it all goes horribly...

See, my Dr. said high carb/low fat....my hubby thought he meant only for the first 5 days after the procedure I already had in July (they knocked me out and went down through my mouth into my stomach....a 1.5 hour surgery). Anyway, can I ask this:rolleyes: .....:confused: .......did the ones with "dumping syndrome" all lose weight???? I can't imagnine how NOT if you can't eat the fattier foods AND have to go to the bathroom all the time. Also,do you have to supplement with vitamins?

Nope, I did not lose weight. :rolleyes: But I blame myself and only myself. :)

i lost a lot of weight before the surgery because i couldn't eat anything.. however this dumping problem has just come up... so i'm not eating much breakfast but i try and make it up in the afternoon and for supper.

I had mine out about three years ago and had suffered the whole time. Finally, I talked to my doctor, and she put me on a Rx called Welchol. It has worked pretty good. I still have problems, but some are also do to chemo that I had in 1999. Good luck. I think you can kick this.:)

I have learned that after surgery some patients can eat without any digestive problems, some may not eat some kind of food, and some after the surgery are only slightly better. If you have removed all possible other causes of problems before gall bladder surgery (stomach, duodenum, liver, pancreas, intestine) then the most likely cause is a combination of a few factors. One of the reasons is inadequate or insufficient creation of digestive juices, their inappropriate biochemical composition, and hormonal dysfunction, followed by various psychological problems of anxiety, panic disorder or depression.

I had my gallbladder removed in Dec 2009. I suffer from dumping syndrome. :( I can't tie it to any particular food or any particular time of day. Some days I'm great, some days every meal sends me straight to the bathroom. It's not fun, but definitely much better than the pain of the gallbladder attacks.

I had my gallbladder out way back in '76-before the "band aid" surgery they have now. The foot-long scar was a lot of fun when I was a teen
(16), I'll tell ya!:mad:

Now that I'm older, the "dumping" has been going on for a while. It does not matter what I eat ( I also have GERD) so much as if I eat on a completely empty stomach. I have also tried the Welchol, and it worked very well, but it is VERY cost prohibitive.

I had my gallbladder out in 2006. I started vomiting after we would eat Wingstop on the weekend...it was my husband who finally made the connection that my body could not handle grease. We eliminated that, and the vomiting stopped, but I had full blown pancreatitis & thought I was dying before I ever went to a Dr./ER. I was so stubborn.

I had to spend 5 days in the hosp, much of it without food, before the swelling went down enough for them to take my gallbladder out. I was too sick to care!

It is horrible, I cannot eat hardly anything without literally having to run to the bathroom. I had a giggle over one poster who says the foods she knows she can't eat too far from home. I had to learn! Basically, I can't eat ANY fast food, fried food, milk, ice cream doesn't bother me too much, except Dairy Queen.

There were times I would eat very little on business lunches at one of my former jobs, we would all break for lunch, and then go back in a meeting. Leaving the meeting was really frowned on.

I sympathize with all of you. I remember as a kid my brother and I laughed at our grandma running for the potty, now I am just like her!!! :p

I think I will live with the golf ball size stones as long as I can. My Dr suggested I have my gallbladder removed but when I read about the dumping syndrome it freaked me out. No thank you! I try to limit my fat and have not had any attacks in a year or so. Knock on wood!

I've had post cholecystectomy syndrome since having my gall bladder out in 2005. The pain from that is worse than the original stones. :(