Hi ladies and gents,
I recently found out that I have one huge gallstone blocking my gallbladder and I have to have surgery with removal of my gallbladder. It was a cholesterol stone and often these are common in people who are trying to lose weight, especially women, as low calorie diets causes the liver to secrete more cholesterol into the gallbladder upsetting the normal balance - hence a stone is sometimes formed.
There are other factors that can cause this though such as obesity (to high fat diets) and woman are particularly prone. Anyway I have lost 25kg in the last 6-9months very slowly( I thought) only reducing my intake by about 500 cals a day + exercise, yet I am also trying very hard! as most of you are and have cut out alot of fat.
All I want to stress is that yes anyone can really be susceptible to this, especially those trying to lose weight and if you get stomach aches even little one go see your doctor and request an ultrasound looking for gallstones as some can be fine, you don't need to bother and it's kind of fun to see how your insides are going and doesn't feel bad at all to have done! Just keep a clear head about your dieting and exercise and take your time, feels like you can never win sometimes - finally loosing weight and now surgery ! Anyway it's a very common thing and I don't want to put anyone off losing weight(which I doubt I would anyway most people would train with pain even after being overweight for so long!) but just wanted to say to look after yourselves too not just in the 'loosing fat for health sense'.
I also just wanted to hear from anyone else who has had these problems/having these problems and what it was like after surgery in terms of losing weight still, do you also feel any different apart from no more attacks ? I sometimes get a sickly feeling in the pit of my stomach it feels like that when I eat some foods/drinks anyone else relate ? (these are seperate from those horrible gallstone attacks tough as I know some people have experienced !)
http://hcd2.bupa.co.uk/fact_sheets/html/gallstones.html - good little fact sheet on gallstones for anyone interested
thanks and keep up the good work on your weight loss journey !