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Gallbladder was removed about 15 years ago. Over 10 years time after I slowly declined in health. Didn't know why. Had trouble with indigestion after eating, burping up food hours after meals. I started taking generic digestion pills (that had pancreatin, HCl, enzymes) and they helped. But, I had to take a lot of them. I got on an HCl kick for a while, but nearly ended up with a stomach ulcer. Then one day it dawned on me that bile was the key ingredient. Thing is, it's near impossible to find bile supplements alone in stores (bile is usually combined with other digestives). I tried various bile supplements, and Nutricology's Ox bile seems to work best for me. However, different folks need different amounts of bile supplementation. I tried their 500mg pills, but they were too much bile in one dose for me. I could either take 1 pill a day, and have some meals still cause indigestion (not enough bile), or I could take 2 pills spaced out in the day but end up with the scoots the next day (too much bile). I looked for a lower dose, and thankfully they make these 125mg pills. This lets the end-user custom-dose (1 for 125mg, 2 for 250mg, 3 for 375mg, 4 for 500mg, etc). You have to experiment yourself to find which brand works best for you. Some folks may do ok with a bile stimulating thing like Cholachol (didn't work for me). Others need straight-up bile supplement, but, for me anyways, there seems to be a difference between procine (pig) and ox bile. Ox bile just seems to work best for me. I try to take 2 x 125mg pills per meal if I remember to take it every meal or 3 x 125mg if I just remember to take it morning and night. The key to bile supplementation is to also take fat soluble vitamins at the same time, especially vitamin D. Most folks get enough vit A & E, and the body tends to make vit K if gut flora is in balance (which bile supplementation can help balance if you have sluggish bile production). But, since many of us spend lives working office jobs and not getting much sun, we can get really low in Vit D. Vit D seems to process better with bile supplementation. When I started mixing in an extra dose of Vit D with my multi vitamin at night and taking it all with bile supplement, it was like night and day. I had more energy, felt better, slept better. So, my night time routine is to take a multi-vite with extra vit D and bile to help digest the fat soluble vitamins (A,D,E,K). It's worked pretty well. I just wish doctors would have told me about this when I had my gallbladder taken out years ago. I saw doctor after doctor due to deteriorating health, but since blood work showed "everything was fine", they dismissed my mentions of weight-gain, fatigue, etc to just "you need to eat healthier and get more exercise". I'm able to function like a normal person now that I'm actually digesting food normally and absorbing the fat soluble vitamins. Medical folks are dropping the ball by not letting gallbladder removal patients know about this after procedures.