Two and a half years without a gallbladder

I’m posting this — the kind of report-back on a personal experience that I’d look for on Reddit — because I want anecdata to be available on the open web, too. Two and a half-ish years ago (late February 2024) I had emergency surgery to remove my gallbladder. I had been meeting with a nutritionist about my digestive issues for a couple years (after trying to figure diet improvements out myself), and working my way through tests and specialists trying to hunt down the source of my issues: H. Pylori test, low FODMAP+ elimination diet, trying to regulate my cortisol levels better, taking a proton pump inhibitor, probably more I don’t remember… Turns out, I just had atypical symptoms and/or described them poorly, which made me skeptical* when I finally got the diagnosis. *(When I got a gallbladder attack, rather than acute pain with a distinct origin, my entire rib carriage ached tremendously. I’d also get indigestion so uncomfortable I needed to stand up for hours after eating. Even when…