I recently had my gall bladder removed after receiving opinions of 3 medical doctors, a gastrologois, an internist and a general surgeon. About 3 weeks after the surgery, I started having terrible pains in my stomach followed by vomiting and severe diarhea. This lasted for 3 weeks. When I called the surgeon, he told me I would have to call my primary care physician as this was not a result of the surgery. I did so and she said that I probably had the flu and if I was not better in a week to call back. In a week, I was worse. I called her office and was told that she was out of the office till the following week, so I made an appointment. I tried changing my diet and took every kind of medication in my cabinet. I finally found that a diet of soda crackers and water relieved the pain, but not the diarhea. After 3 days on this diet, I started introducing regular food back into my diet, and was able to tollerate almost everything. I looked on the internte for information and found a discription of my exact symptoms called postcholecystectomy syndrome. It is a fancy name for having unnecessary surgery. I am finally feeling fairly normal, the colic type stomach pains have stopped and the diarhea is not everyday. When the day came for my doctors appointment, the office called to tell me that she was sick and I would have to reschedule. I just cancelled the appointment and said I would call later to reschedule. It has now been 6 weeks since my surgery and I am just now feeling somewhat normal…with the exception of the diarhea. Please let me know what I have to look forward to down the road and what I can do to correct this one lingering problem.
Thank you,
Jill B.
