Gallstones

Digestive health
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Does having gallstones cause bloating and abdominal weight gain along with chronic body pains? 

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Hi

i didn't get bloating or put weight on . I had colic attacks violently sick continiously for about 5 hours unbearable pain as if your intestines are on fire and ribs broken. That was a stone trying to be passed. The rest of the time slight nausea , pain across ribs and really bad on right side and in right side of back. Felt like I had an ulcer gnawing away or a mouse gnawing under my right rib. Hope that helps 

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Thanks Sally, I was scanned today and had gallstones confirmed. I've been feeling rubbish for ages, no appetite and when I do eat the after effects aren't good eek I thought it was a bad arthritis flare but the pains are awful. Getting the side and lower back pain too. Hopefully this is the cause and can be dealt with!! Do gallstones move? Mine are static in the neck of the gallbladder....

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Well your gall bladder stores bile from your liver and when you eat food that needs extra bile to digest it your stomach request extra bile from your gallbladder. Your gallbladder contracts squeezes extra bile. This is when you get pain as the gallstones all get squeezed rub together irritate your gallbladder making it sore and if one gets squeezed into a duct ... Pain vomiting through the roof. 

So no fat , spices , meat , etc bland I found sloppy easily digested food like mash potatoe and really well boiled veg ... And your gallbladder doesn't contract it settles pain goes wonderful. Oh and no caffeine no chocolate ... 

If you get an attack buscopan can stop the contractions, and I was on omeprazole twice a day a proton pump inhibitor which reduces the bile you produce by 80 percent ..

I had mine removed in February feel great now smile 

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I really think it does because I have all those problems too. Also, even wearing a bra hurts. I have been drinking a ton of water and that seems to help a little and I hate the taste or no-taste of water.

Have the doctors told you that you have gallstones

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Hi, yes I had it confirmed today with an ultrasound. The body pains are awful....before I thought gallstone pain was just in the abdominal area

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Hi Bella,

  I think the aches and pain are from the gallbladder attacks. Because we tighten up so much when they occur, everything get sore and achy after. A few days ago, I too, didn't think I was going to make. But things have calmed down a little and hopefully they will for you too

did they schedule a date yet for surgery? Drink a lot of water till then

Fell better, relief is coming

Gail

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Hi Sally,

   Did you have any problem with constipation ?

gail

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Thanks for that! I'm seeing the consultant in a few days so hopefully not long after that confused

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Yes but that may be hormonal ... Peri menopause I am 50 .. But saying that since operation I haven't needed bran.. 

Now with no gallbladder very rich hard to digest food can make me slightly bilious .. Nothing on the gallbladder nausea.. I hate rib eye steak yesterday and felt a bit like I needed to burp. I think it's because you don't get the extra bile from your gallbladder to digest richer foods.. You just have a gentle trickle from your liver . So not enough to digest my rib eye .. I'm ok with rump or sirloin.. Not so fatty .. 

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hi Bellaboo 1973, I have also suffered with this. I went to see 1 of the nurses that works under my consultants at the end of M ay and was still waiting for a date for my operation 3 weeks later but I was in so much pain that I ended up goiung to hospital and staying there untill my operation on Saturday 21st June 2014and was allowed out the next day but that was because it doesn't matter what tablets the doctors put me on they didn't touch the pain. Hopefully this will help you in some way

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Hi Debbie, did you have the chronic body pains and weight gain in your tummy? I'm so frustrated and fed up being in pain and overweight 

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I did until I watched what I ate. In the end all I could eat was salads and meat free stuff, like quorn. Go to your doctors and ask if you are taking the right medication aswell

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Thanks Debbie, just been scanning through other posts....hope you are feeling better now. I felt fine on Sunday and actually did some stuff around the garden.....but boy have I suffered since!!  I'm thinking this may be quite common judging from what I've read on here. 

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hi Bellaboo1973

still a bit sore from my surgery but that I can cope with as it is a lot beter than the gallstone pain

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Hi, I'm 26 and was diagnosed with gallstones 10 months ago in March, in April I was admitted to hospital for 4 days with pancreatitis caused by gallstones then in November I was admitted to hospital because of extreme pain and had acute necrotic pancreatitis for two weeks where I spent most of that time on morphine because of the pain. I've just got home and am now waiting for surgery which they say can take up to four weeks to happen. I'm still extremely uncomfortable all day every day and get batches of pain and am extremely weak. But I'd suggest if in servere pain get checked out for pancreatitis as it can become a life threatening condition if left untreated. I'm just scared about the upcoming op now sad 

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Hella amanda I have same age as yours same symptoms Could you tell me about your report and are you happy to remove your gallbladder 

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Hi everybody sorry but I'm gonna talk about my story cuz I really really need answers... I'm 19 years old and I'm very very healthy I'm n gym person mild bodybuilder but no steriods... So I drink at least 5 cups of green tea per day and about 20 big glasses of water.... I drink calcium ,fish oil and flax seed oil it helps with my skin and everything... But I get strange attacks right.... Since about 2 years ago... I wake up very late I'm so so sick my stomack works like water and my stool is really really dark yellow and greenish and sometimes there blood and I get headache so bigs that I can't even open my eyes... I've been to the ER so much times the first time they told be it was GERD so I went for the G scope... And they said I got GERD... No it was next im 40 mg per day for the rest of my life... And the next year I got the attack again and about couple of months later again... It happen when I eat like really milky food or rich foods if I eat anything rich I'm screwed...  I went to a new spec and he is the top doc here in SA .... I explained all the stuff that happen to be and he was puzzled.... We'll he send me for I 24 sur test don't know what they call it but it's like a monitor and I monitors all my stuur and stuff and we'll the results was weird... My stuur count is half than the normal persons sour.... ( how the hell is this possible !!!! ) he told me it's not my stomach it might be my gallbladder or something of oddi muscle or I don't no... He gave me a special blood test and he said that if I get that attack again they MUST do this blood test right then.. I looked at the paper and the test was for Calcuim,Magnesuim and foes for or something I men why would he test for this ?... Anyway and last week boom woke up was so sick a can't walk or eat or anything my stool was so bad water I actually slept on the toilet... I mean I live so healthy and everything so why why why ?. I can't even live I can't eat like anywaything....   Anyway I was again at the ER and they gave me some pills for gallbladder disease.... And did a ultrasound of my spleen, gallbalder and they picked up that my spleen was extremely enlarged and guess what ! No gallstones !!!!   He said I must go back to the doc spec because he said I must get that spleen checked out and he recommended a " Hilda scan " so I'm waiting for the doc to get back from vac so what can you people tell me what do you people think is wrong ? The ER doc told me to drink a lot of Apple juice ... I just came back from the gym and had a smoothie with espresso , choc, bannana and low fat mild,, 30 min after I had the smoothie my stomach went again and again it was water yellow brown stool and the smell is like I have poisen in my system... .. .? I'm getting to think its my gallblader but I drink so much water and detox and everything and if eat a little bit of rich food I'm off to the toilet but every few months I get this extreme attacks ..... So yeah I changed my diet to more high in fiber and stuff but still get this sick... So here is my question what the hell is wrong !?

 

 

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hi

you are in the right process getting scanned etc just don't give up keep going back to your doctor. Sometimes we lead doctors by what we say we have a preconceived idea of what it feels like and gp s just go along with our hints so to speak..try and just go and list your symptoms you get now..and keep going back until they figure it out ...

the trouble is you eat healthy but then it hits you when you don't.

you have a instant reaction in your bowels and stomach 

try and keep a list of what you ate when it happens

coffee causes spasms in the gallbladder .

as can chocolate 

 

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sorry cut myself off in mid flow ..

there is irritable bowel syndrome, allergies and no doubt a whole host of other conditions and gall bladder ...

one thing is problems with gallbladder do arise when we diet and lose weight and then when we have a binge agony ...

why I am not sure does our body become hyper sensitive to fat as we have totally excluded it ..

don't dispair you will figure it out just keep being a pest at your gps