I am hoping someone here could help me.

Your body needs 6-8 weeks to get itself straightened out after gall bladder removal. Whatever you're left with after that point is pretty much what you've got from there on out. Doctors tell you that you'll be perfectly normal afterwards, but this is false. You're as normal as a person with only one lung. Yeah, you can live without a lung, but your marathon days are over with. The more people I talk to who have gut problems after gall bladder removal, the more I am convinced almost no one goes back to being perfectly normal after surgery. Instead almost everyone suddenly develops IBS and/or GERD. Funny, they never had either one before the surgery, but doctors can't seem to connect the dots between the two.

My G.I. prescribed me Welchol for my bile diarrhea. It works like a charm. I put my m-i-l onto it too and she loves it. She said she used to have to go without eating when she traveled and did lectures because as soon as she ate, she was in the bathroom the rest of the day. And being diabetic, that was really bad for her to skip meals!

It has a constipating effect, so it's not for people who have chronic constipation (although you can take it just when you are having diarrhea--it doesn't constipate me like Immodium does). If you suffer from constipation more than diarrhea, there's supposedly an OTC medicine out there called "bile salts". It's an old-timey laxative. I couldn't find any in a drug store, but I read about them online, so I know you can order them from there. Some people, after having the GB out, don't produce enough bile to break down their food, leading to constipation. The bile salts are supposed to replicate the bile you've lost and help you get regular.

Two things I have learned since having my gall bladder out: one, a low-fat diet can constipate you really, really bad (so I don't recommend them) and two, what made me sick before having my gall bladder out generally still bothers me. For example, my biggest gall bladder attack trigger was caffeine. Sometimes I can tolerate it with my Welchol and sometimes I can't. So I finally just gave it up except for green tea (which has very little in it anyways). But the things that bothered me less often--like pizza and fried food--are generally okay so long as I don't eat too much at once and not multiple days in a row.