Hubby couldn't eat pork after getting his gallbladder out, he became violently allergic to it. He really missed bacon.

That is tragic.

The inability to tolerate fatty and/or acidic foods is common after having the gallbladder removed. My sister has to be careful with fats and tomatoes, though she can now drink coffee again.

I'm sorry, sj. Hopefully it's temporary.

It might not be the coffee as much as the dairy, sj. My dad has had horrible problems with dairy since he had the gallbladder out.

Steph, a pharma question if you have a second. I'm not supposed to take dairy with Cefdnir (and presumably other antibiotics). Are they talking about huge calcium supplements, or do I need to wait if I had cheese on my eggs an hour ago?

And I assume the problem is interfering with absorption, not sudden dairy poisoning or whatever?

It's kind of moot anyway, because magnesium is also contraindicated, and my new migraine supplement has that. I will not be able to manage the antibiotic 2x a day and the migraine stuff 3x a day.

Dana good luck, that sounds like a pain! Magnesium supplements made me itch like crazy.

I can tolerate the dairy. It's definitely the coffee.

Dana, the information I found says this: "Do not take dairy products, antacids, didanosine, sucralfate, multivitamins, or other products that contain calcium, magnesium, aluminum, iron, or zinc within 2 hours before or 2 hours after taking this drug."

I honestly don't know what amount of dairy is small enough to ignore that advice.

For some reason, the last sentence leaves me with so many questions.

Muahahaha, my work here is done.

(In the early 1900s, my great-grandfather's cousin had an affair with a nurse from the Jewish Hospital in Cincinnati. She had previously worked in Sault Ste Marie, and introduced him to St Joseph Island as a beautiful and remote place they could sneak off to during the summer. After the affair ended, he started bringing his wife and kids up there instead, built a house, invited his cousins, they built houses and invited their cousins, and 100+ years later here we are!)

Thanks, Steph.

Husband suggested that someone should develop an app for people who are on several different types of med that all contraindicate each other to work out the optimum daily schedule.