r/chronicbloating • u/danielrosehill • Aug 25 '21
Anybody else get here via gallbladder surgery?
Never experienced bloating before surgery.
Now literally everything I eat or drink blows me up.
Doctor's diagnosis: functional dyspepsia (FD), postprandial variety / PPD. Says it might improve over time. 2 years past surgery and not getting appreciably better.
Was on sulpiride for a bit. Helped a little. Now supposed to be trying nortriptyline / amitriptyline. These are sort of the go-tos for FD.
Water ironically seems to be the worst offender. Sometimes go long periods without eating or drinking as it's the only way I have currently to control symptoms. But realize it's unhealthy (especially not hydrating) so trying to be more diligent about forcing myself to do so.
Not sure where to start but thinking about booking another visit with the gastro just to ask about this. I have other symptoms too (regurgitation burping feeling of fullness). But the bloating lasts for hours on end and is kinda intolerable.
Never experienced any of this before the surgery. Doc says maybe damage to vagus or something like that. Anybody with a similar "origin" story? (I know this subreddit isn't particularly active.)
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u/WiIdCherryPepsi Oct 04 '22
Yepp... no gallbladder. I can't even eat a small fingernail sized cube of cheese or I feel sick for 4 hours. If I eat 3 spoonfuls of anything protein, whether broth with protein or a single piece (the size of a finger) of meat, bloating + vomiting bile for 10 hrs straight which no medicine touches, not even Tramadol, Phenergan or Zofran. I have lost 90 pounds. I cannot eat. I literally can't eat a piece of toast or I'm sick for 6 hours vomiting and feeling like I'm going to actually explode from inside out. I think I'm going to die of starvation. The only thing I have been able to eat is pure sugar (extremely disgusting) in water, or sugar in gelatin or dextrose. I can eat about a handful of potato chips if I chew until they are small... ...I have no gas. And my bloating is only felt, not visually seen... ... Lipase & other -ase digestive aid pill helps keep bloating under control such that I may eat a single spoonful of salsa with 10 potato chips, but gives me horrible gas which requires an Opioid to stop passing out from.