Hey everyone, I write this in a very angry state at the moment ! I have just spent 24 hours in hospital after the worst pain I've ever felt in my back and just under my boobs. I had an ultrasound which revealed a gall stone! Although I've now been pain free for a while I am still needing my gall bladder removed on the 17th of December. As you can imagine I'm very frustrated after having only recovered from lapband a few weeks ago!!! The surgeon told me gall stones can occur from rapid weight loss, has anyone else experienced this before? Not a happy camper!!!

It is not unusual.

I've heard quite a few on here saying that's happened. Take care!

I was on a liquid diet in the early 90s and lost 100 lbs in like a week and a half....lol. Of course that's an exaggeration but it was very fast... A few Months maybe

I had the worst pain one day and was admitted for emergency gall bladder surgery... Luckily they were able to do it laparoscopically but of course I had to get off the liquid diet and put the weight right back on

It's no fun but at least you will never have to worry about it again

Feel better!

I had my gall bladder removed in 2001. I had lost about 40 lbs in 2000. do you know, that writing this was a ahaw moment forme. I had completely forgotten about the 40 lb loss in 2000. Anyway, it is the most excruiating pain I ever wanted to go through. Good luck, the recovery is not too bad, as long as they remove all the stones! I, also, had lapiscropic surgery, and only have a couple extra small scares. Karen

I had lap band in oct 2011. I had to have my gallbladder out in Feb. 2009. I had lost about 50 pounds.

Hey everyone' date=' I write this in a very angry state at the moment ! I have just spent 24 hours in hospital after the worst pain I've ever felt in my back and just under my boobs. I had an ultrasound which revealed a gall stone! Although I've now been pain free for a while I am still needing my gall bladder removed on the 17th of December. As you can imagine I'm very frustrated after having only recovered from lapband a few weeks ago!!! The surgeon told me gall stones can occur from rapid weight loss, has anyone else experienced this before? Not a happy camper!!! [/quote']

I'm experiencing it now for several months now horrible pain from stones but the weight loss doctor who is going to do my lap band is also removing my gallbladder the same day.pain will get worse because of weightloss so it was the best thing to do. Getting banded 12/4/12

It's not unusual at all...I had my lapband surgery on 8/1 and my gallbladder removed 10/5.

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It's not unusual at all...I had my lapband surgery on 8/1 and my gallbladder removed 10/5.

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Thanks everyone, I'm okay at the moment, haven't really felt any pain for a couple of days so I'm strictly sticking to a low fat diet which should keep the pain at bay until my surgery and hopefully will help me loose a bit more weight seeing as I can't have anything put into my band before my operation, it's basically like having the optifast diet all over again but with a few less restrictions, but I'm happy to do it if it means i won't experience that horrible pain again!

Well I would say your silver lining is doctor will do it as a laproscopic surgery. When I was a freshman in college I lost 100 pounds and ended up having have gallbladder surgery and it was regular open surgery so I have to see about a 4 inch scar from it. Also as long as you're allowed solid foods this is just a very low fat diet. In order to have surgery during spring break I ended up having to wait about 3 and a half months before I can have my gallbladder out. And I was eating at college cafeteria