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Q: Hernia or fat tissue ? Stomach protrudes between gallbaldder
asked by: DoctorQuestion on May 16th, 2007
I had my gallbladder out many years ago and back then they gave me a 6 inch incision on my stomach with a little indent on one end of the incision. I know they cut my stomach muscles when they removed it, or at least that is what I was told at the time. I never exercised after the surgery to any real degree. Now I am trying to get in shape and would like to get a flat stomach. My question is, will having had my stomach muscles cut previously, in any way, affect my ability to obtain a flat stomach? My stomach seems to protrude a little more between the incision and my belly button. Also, no one ever told me about bile salts and recently I have been reading about them. I don't have very many problems eating, except going to the bathroom soon after eating and bloating and gas. Would bile salts help me? Will it help digest more of my food? Or should I leave well enough alone and not take them?


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Dr. Nikola Gjuzelov , MD
replied on May 29th, 2007
Fitness Answer A2791
It seems best that you check for the presence of a ventral hernia between the abdominal scar and belly button with your primary health provider or abdominal surgeon (if necessary). It is possible, of course that you may be experiencing only some larger amounts of fat tissue that have built up in the region but if you are indeed experiencing a ventral hernia, first you can request its surgical correction and then after rehabilitation you may try exercises for strengthening the abdominal muscles. If you don’t have any type of ventral hernia and are only noticing fat tissue, you might try some easy stomach muscle exercises because all those abdominal operations happened a long time ago.


You don’t need any bile salts because you have your own bile salts!!! Bile salts are contained in the bile. Bile is produced by the liver and only collected in the gallbladder. When a gallbladder is removed the patient can experience digestive problems until the billiary ducts get enlarged and replace the gallbladder’s function.













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