I was diagnosed with Gallstones years ago but found that if I ate relatively healthy and didn't binge I didn't have attacks. Well before I changed my life style I was having five or six attacks a year. Since December I have had none, up until last night. I didn't eat fatty stuff but I did over eat by about 1000 calories (2500 instead of 1500) and most of that was late in the day.
I have also been dealing with what I now believe is IBS-A. For longer than I can remember I have alternated between constipation and diarrhea and always thought it was because of the gall bladder but now I'm not so sure.
Anyway, because of my 1am wake-up call from my gall bladder I have decided to have it removed. An additional 1000 calories should not cause an attack.
What I am looking for is what others have experienced when they had their gall badder removed. I would also be interested in knowing if you also suffered IBS symptoms and if that got better after surgery.
For those that have IBS how do you treat it?