Symptoms for Gall Bladder Issues?
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"The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore" Vincent Van Gogh
Usually causes pain in the upper right side of your abdomen but I don't think it's constant pain, at least not usually. Might also cause nausea. When I had gall stones, the only symptom I had was nausea and my idiot doc kept telling me it couldn't be my gall bladder since I was just nauseous, no pain. I finally insisted on an ultrasound and sure enough, it was full of stones.
Kelly
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GB pain can radiate. Anywhere. Left or right. Right is much more common, but only test can tell if there is something going on.
The doc can run test to determine that. In a lot of cases - eating food higher in fat - may cause more pain 15 min to 1 hr after the meal. But not always.
Sometimes GB is enlarged and inflamed and will hurt all the time - low stubbing or burning pain. Sometimes - the pain comes and goes.
A lot of people report nausea when GB is not working properly.
Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG
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Turned out I had gallstones, so had surgery to remove the gallbladder last year. It was a very easy surgery, and I was up and driving the next day! I'm glad my gallbladder is gone!
246 in Dec 2008 before banded 1/28/09 at 215 lbs, band crapped 9/09 at 170 lbs and struggled with it and regained to 203 revised to bypass on 8/1/11 and am very happy.
Anyway.. my symptoms were in the lower right rib cage area. It was a throbbing pain (pulsing) about a 6 out of 10 on the pain scale. It happened about an hour after I ate and lasted about 15-30 minutes.
I've heard some folks say shooting pains from front to back, back pains, vomiting etc.. I didn't have that. It was more like a tooth ache type of throb under my lower right ribs.
The pain was so intense I thought I had ruptured something in my pouch. I had no idea what was going on. I couldn't walk to get to my car so I finally got a hold of a friend to take me to the ER and they did and ultrasound of my gallbladder and saw it was inflamed and full of gallstones. They spoke with my RNY surgeon and luckily the very next day he was able to remove it for me. Honestly it was the worst pain I have ever had in my life, but since it has been gone I haven't had any issues since.
Christy
Lora
14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained
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