Just had a 2 hour Gallbladder attack

Thank you

Those attacks are worse than labor pains because they do NOT let up at all. I had mine out years ago after several bad attacks. Just stay completely away from fat. That is what brings them on. Feel better soon. Would not wish that pain on anyone.

I purposefully eat a high fat / low carb diet and seriously don't know how to stay away from fat and still eat healthily and get to my goal. This is the worst! I had an unmedicated birth and this felt like 6-7cm dilation for 2 hours. I agree, at least contractions give you a break!

It is quite easy to eat healthily and low fat. that is how I lost my weight. I did 25% fat, 35% carb, 40% protein. Choose lots of healthy carbs like fruit and vegetables, if you choose grains, eat whole grains like steel cut oats. limit or eliminate high fat foods like cheeses, fatty meat cuts.

Yep, it's fat that triggers gallbladder attacks. When you eat fat, your liver dumps bile into your gallbladder, which then regulates how much bile goes through your bile duct and into the stomach via the duodenum in order to break down the fat to go through your system. If you have gall stones, they will get stuck in the bile duct, and then when your gallbladder contracts to squeeze the bile through, that's where you get the pain. It's essentially like your gallbladder is trying to push a baseball through a garden hose. The only way to minimize the attacks is to minimize or cut out fat altogether. The ONLY solution is to have your gallbladder removed.

(As you can tell, been there, done that!) I had my gallbladder removed in 1990 after suffering for 10 years with attacks and not being properly diagnosed until the last reallllly bad one. You need to see a doctor ASAP and get properly diagnosed, and get that thing out. Laparascopic gallbladder surgery is easy compared to WLS, I was ready to go back to work in a couple of days (I didn't but I could have).

As a fellow Keto eater, I hear you about the struggles of no fat, but I highly suggest you eat low or nonfat until you get it out or you will be very sorry!!!

ETA: High dose analgesics will help with the pain!

How has keto been with no gallbladder?

Totally fine, but it has been 27 years since I had my gallbladder out. In the beginning, you have to be careful about how much fat you eat, because without a gallbladder, your liver just dumps a bunch of bile and it breaks the fat down really fast because no gallbladder to regulate. This ends up causing you to make sure you're near a bathroom about an hour after you eat. Over time, it levels out and for me stopped being an issue after a couple of years.

It makes you either be very careful about your diet choices and eating "out" and getting foods you have not personally prepared....Or one can end up staying near a bathroom for a little while...The more foods make you sick, the less desireable they become. after a while not an issue, you avoid fats.learn your tolerances, which do change after several years...and that is not necessarily good. The best advise I can give you is get a bad gall bladder out, it will only get worse . If it's sick it is not functioning properly.It took my daughter 6 weeks to get scheduled, so don't put this off.

I had my gallbladder out eight weeks after RnY. I did not want another surgery either.

Once your gallbladder goes south, there is no bringing it back. Most gallbladder issues can be diagnosed with an abdominal ultrasound, which is noninvasive.

Good luck.