I had my gallbladder removed a week ago today after a horrible few months, involving multiple hospitalisations and being rushed in by ambulance twice for both gallstone issues and pancreatitis caused by an ERCP.
I did have stones. Had my first attack postnatally 15 years ago with dc1, second attack 2 years later, postnatally again, with dc2 and an attack postnatally with dc3, then nothing for 8 years, which is when it became really bad. I had lots of tiny stone chips and my gallbladder wasn't working properly. The suspicion is that the first three were pregnancy/hormone induced, while the recent issues with the gallbladder not working were most likely connected to another problem I have with my autonomic nervous system.
Prior to the op I was on an extremely low fat diet from March and lost just shy of four stone. (That includes almost a week of nil by mouth due to pancreatitis.)
I basically made sure there was no more than 0.5g of fat, total, per meal. I ate weightwatchers yoghurts as snacks (they are recommended by my hopsital for the pre-laparoscopy diet to shrink the liver) a small baked potato with half a small tin of heinz baked beans, toast with honey and no spread or butter (danish white bread is the lowest in fat) porridge made with water and a drop of honey, bananas, dry roasted cherry tomatoes, peppers and mushrooms with fat free balsamic dressing. Basic salad with a small spoon of fat-free cottage cheese (check labels, even so-called fat-free often isn't. I also made my own dry roasted oven chips and sweet potato chips by coating chipped potato in rice flour, pink salt, black pepper and mild paprika and or garlic salt and baking for 20 minutes.
It was very boring and repetitive. Oh and I bought Jelly Belly jelly beans as a fat free treat.
Sorbet is good, but watch the labels, as they're not all as low-fat/fat-free as you'd expect. Also Tesco finest valencia orange juice ice lollies.
I only had two attacks in the four months I was on the diet, the last being a week before my op.
I was given cocodamol, diclofenac, buscopan for attacks plus omeprazole to protect the stomach from the diclofenac.