Gallbladder is out….wtf can I eat

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I had my gallbladder removed on Friday. Hospital provided some toast after surgery.
Had some mild nausea and dry heaving early hours of Saturday morning as the anaesthetic and fentanyl wore off

Also had the dreaded diarrhoea this morning but I haven’t eaten since my surgery. I don’t know what to eat.

Can I have margarine on toast? A biscuit?
I went extremely low fat in May due to the gallstones and I am now petrified to eat anything.

Any post op ideas?

Rich tea biscuits are a lot lower fat than other types.

Have they not given you any dietary advice when you were discharged?

Nope! Just that I can eat normally but I’m too much of a shitbag!

I just ate as normal from the get go. Nobody told me not too. If I eat sour cream I get punished other than that my life has returned to absolutely normal. My gallbladder was full of gallstones so it had been doing absolutely nothing for quite some time.

You can eat normally but avoid really fatty foods and best to eat several smaller portions rather than 3 bigger meals. They say not to go overboard with fibre either, just a normal mixed diet with leaner protein

The only dietary advice is the smaller means might be helpful

https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/health-information/gallbladder-removal-surgery-cholecystectomy/recovery-after-surgery

My mum had to avoid oily or fatty foods otherwise she had the instant runs

I just ate normally. The first few days I think I ate lighter than I normally would have, because I was a little nauseous.

I just ate normally with no issues.

Mcvities digestive biscuits and cups of tea. I was off my food with painkillers anyway. Stay low fat . I did graduate to soups and toast. I remember being very tired.

I just ate what I fancied, which wasn’t much. Soup and toast was about all I could stomach for the first few days, mainly because I’d been on such a strict diet in the run up my body was used to starvation!

Now 2.5 years on and the only thing I can’t stand is avocado. I suffer a bit if I eat greasy food etc, but I just have to be aware of it

I had mine out 18 years ago and just ate normally and always have

I’ve not actually had any painkillers. I’m mostly up and mobile now just a few residual gas pains in my shoulders

Im absolutely starving but scared to eat anything
@familyissues12345 this is where I’m at with it! I’ve been that limited I don’t bloody know what I like anyway

I had mine out more than 20 years ago, I can eat anything. Except Fish and Chips because that goes straight through me! I never had a particularly high fat diet anyway so I didn’t change anything.

I had my gall bladder removed 35 years ago and it's never crossed my mind to eat any special sort of diet and I feel fine.
I developed gall stones in my late teens as a side effect of taking the pill which was quite rubbish.

I had small amounts of soup, dry toast, crackers, and moved on to chicken noodle soup and toast with a smear of spread.

I asked for advice on what to eat when I left hospital after my op assuming I’d need to be careful for a bit - I’d also had an ERCP to remove stones in my bile duct.

The doctor just said ‘eat what you want, that’s why we’ve taken it out for you!’

I had to eat smaller meals for a bit as my stomach had shrunk and I did feel a bit sick if I ate too much, but after about 5 days I was back eating everything I couldn’t before.

I should have added, one year on, and I eat pretty normally, but for me I avoid cheese and mayo.

Eat whatever you like. Probably best to avoid cream, cheese, deep fried stuff, nuts etc for a minute, but otherwise have something small and see how you feel.

What do you actually fancy eating? Fruit? Biscuits? Toast? Sandwich? Soup?

Just take it easy, eat little and often, and see how you go.

I would be happy with toast but I hate it dry and I love a biscuit

Oh no OP, no practical advice but I hope you can get some help. Both my Step Gran and Step Mum had this surgery (at different times) and they both became seriously underweight due to being too anxious to eat properly. Does your GP offer dietary advice and support maybe? It’s taken years for my Step Mum to get back to normal weight again.

I had mine out 30 years ago
Back then no advice was given as to what I could or couldn't eat
I just went back to what I fancied..I think toast and bland food for the first few days ..but nothing much changed for me

There’d be no harm in you having a bit of toast with butter. Then have a biscuit or two.

Just eat mindfully so you give your stomach time to catch up and don’t over eat.

It'll only be a matter of days before you’re eating normally again.

I had mine out 15 years ago and my consultant said I could eat normally again so just eat whatever you feel like.

I eat completely normally. Never had any bad reactions

Stay low fat if you can! I had mine out and dropped all the good habits I had before surgery.

Eating fatty foods had no negative impact at all on me, so I was back on the butter, biscuits and chocolate right away!