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From: Laurie
Remote Name: 207.189.54.191
Date: 04/15/02
Time: 02:45:54 PM
Your liver learns to do the gall bladder's job. Don't worry....it takes a little time for your body to adjust to it's new plumbing but you can eat whatever you want. I was in so much pain for months before I had mine out, couldn't eat hardly anything...and the morning after surgery I woke up ravenous and ate every last drop of my hospital breakfast and asked for more, the dr's were all cracking up. Basically the gall bladder serves as a storage container for bile- which your liver produces. When you eat, your gall bladder figures out how much bile to release into the small intestine to help you digest food. For example, something hard to digest, like fried foods, will require more bile than say, plain rice. Anyway, when they take out your gallbladder they basically connect the duct from your liver directly to the small intestine. It takes a little while for the liver to learn how to regulate the amount of bile (which basically means that sometimes, in the first couple of months, I'd eat and it would go right through me, along with a truckload of bile-gross)...but in a couple of months I was totally fine. Anyway good luck...