Two and a half years without a gallbladder
After emergency surgery in February 2024, Tracy Durnell shares what life is like without a gallbladder. She details the digestive enzyme she takes, the foods that now cause trouble (leafy salads, broccoli, spicy dishes) versus those that surprisingly don't (ice cream, beans, nuts), and how her IBS symptoms improved dramatically. She also reflects on likely causes: birth control pills since 2008 and rapid weight loss.
My IBS symptoms are greatly improved, to the point I suspect the IBS was the gallbladder all along.
- Barrin92
> I started some medications that suppress appetite in 2021 and lost 20+ pounds relatively quickly.
Assuming she's talking about GLP-1 drugs those do indeed have been associated with gallblader (and other gastrointestinal) inflammation and disease.
Not necessarily causative here obviously but still in my opinion irresponsible to use for weight loss that isn't medically urgent.
- comrade1234
I wonder if your bad cholesterol goes up in this case? This is because the liver uses cholesterol to create gall enzymes, which it excretes into the gall bladder with a bunch of left-over cholesterol too.
- __m
What would be the sypmtoms? I each pretty much everything, didn't change my diet and don't take any medicine.