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Bile acid problems after gallbladder removal

Started 22 February 2026 · 13 replies · 96 hearts · read 1.3k times

BramberSteyning, UK · 22 February 2026
5 months ago

Bile acid problems after gallbladder removal Writing it down partly to work out what I actually think.

Something is going on with my body and I would like to know whether it is ordinary.

What I keep tripping on is not the physical bit. It is the not knowing whether what I am experiencing is normal, and having nobody to ask who is not either selling something or frightened for me.

The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about me.

Not looking for a plan. Just company and whatever anyone has found.

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BibiRabat, MA
#1

Yes to the burping. It is real, it is unbeautiful, and it does settle.

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GethinMerthyr Tydfil, UK
#2

Gently disagreeing with the opening post, or rather adding the other half of it.

I am about four months behind you and I have been dreading exactly this, so thank you for writing it down before I got there.

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal
#3

What the opening post described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

I will leave this open for a few more days and then add it to the circle's resources, because the answers here are better than anything I would have written.

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BettinaGraz, AT
#4

It got worse before it got better for me, which I wish someone had said. About ten days of worse.

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NyalaAddis Ababa, ET
#5

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

The thing that changed it for me was going slower, agreed with my prescriber. I am not suggesting you do that. I am saying the conversation exists.

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BryherIsles of Scilly, UK
#6

Have you got anyone who can be with you when you do it? It made an enormous difference to me and I felt silly asking.

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ÖzlemIzmir, TR
#7

Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.

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PosyChichester, UK
#8

I did exactly the same and felt terrible about it. You have not done anything wrong.

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EphraimBrooklyn, NY
#9

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week. Not because it is definitely serious — because it is the sort of thing that is much easier to rule out than to worry about.

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BrackenHexham, UK
#10

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

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NoraDublin, IE
#11

Can I gently push back on one thing? Not the substance, just the framing — you have written twice that you should be coping better. Who told you that?

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BibiRabat, MA
#13

For what it is worth, the trial data on this is thinner than the confidence of the internet would suggest. Worth knowing when you read the posts.

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