Gallbladder Attack?

Hi everyone,

I plan on calling my doctor today (it's early in the morning), but I just spent 2 hours curled up in pain. I had extreme pain on my right side radiating into my back and chest...it was BAD. I was about to go to the ER when all of a sudden the pain stopped.

Was this a gallbladder attack?

It sounds like it. Feels like I imagine a heart attack feels like. Go to Dr or ER. My doctor sent me straight to ER when I called.

I had my gallbladder removed the year before my Gastric Bypas. Woke up in the night in very bad pain had to go sit in a chair all night Called my doctor in the morning and he said go to ER. After couple tests ...ultrasound and I think catscan they found severely infected gall bladder and had an emergency removal. I had a couple milder attacks year or so before so knew most likely same thing and so we didn't want to rush at night to ER. Well my cost conscious lovely husband didn't want me to go! He felt bad when found out severely infected and emergency removal!

I hope you feel better... I had a couple mild ones then nothing until the big one. Better off having it removed. Surgery was easy for me... no big recovery in comparison to other surgeries I have experienced.

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It does sound like a gallbladder attack but certainly talk to your doctor today and go to the ER if it happens again. For what it's worth, I've had a similar pain twice since surgery and for me it ended up being an intolerance to eating too much of a specific food and was not gallbladder related.

You are right! I have those pains too ... even now all these yes out every so often. Awful pains that eventually pass ... feel like gallbladder pain but not! (Especially for me since I don't have one!!!). I think like you said certain foods can trigger it. I think sometimes peanuts can trigger mine. They don't come that often and pass usually within 10 minutes.

It sounds like it to me, and worth getting checked out. I spent a year having attacks that got more and more frequent and right before I got rid of it, I was throwing up everything I ate. I didn't have insurance at the time so I held out and waited until I had coverage before getting it removed but that's not something I'd recommend at all.

havent had a single issue since, except lettuce bothered my stomach.

possible

also could be food related- what had you eaten that day?

Gall bladder attacks are FOOD related.

I had my gallbladder prior to WLS removed and every now and then over the years since WLS I get the same type pain although a bit milder pain in upper stomach chest area... related to possibly something I ate that did not agree with me... have had it happen a couple times I noticed with peanuts. I think that is what she is saying (food related if you don't have gall bladder or just simply related to something you ate).

All I was saying was that it could be something she ate and NOT her gallbladder.

Do not do what I did in '90 and let a gall bladder problem go for too long. I let my attacks go for 18 months and ended up in the hospital for 117 (yes one hundred and 17). I developed pancreatitis and lost most of my pancreas. A gall bladder attack starts in the front of your body under the breastbone and it "travels" around the right side and settles in your back. You are lucky it was only two hours. Mine went for close to four hours.

Before anyone says that I should have researched my symptoms - well there wasn't any internet back then. I thought it was grief because my mom died in a fire in Jan of '90. I was pretty ignorant of my body back then. Now I am a research junkie.