Suspected gallstones but feel like I'm being lazy

I have never felt as ill in my life as the last time I had a big gallstones attack, I couldn't move from my bed for about a week apart from to run to the toilet to vomit up bile. It wiped me out for a good couple of weeks after too. Thankfully I'm now down one gallbladder so I don't have to worry about it again. Listen to your body and take the time you need to recover.

Yes that's shameful. You obviously aren't at work so you could run the hoover round and maybe go to the gym?

Had mine removed two years ago. I can eat what I like now, but I generally like healthy stuff!

I found gall bladder pain worst than labour especially when l didn't know what was happening. I was literally rolling around the floor! Just do whatever your body calls for. One thing that set mine off was coffee so be careful with that.

Does the pain that goes to your back feel like a red hot poker mine did and it turned out I had pancreatitis confirmed by a blood test caused by gallstones that's how I found out I had them. Luckily all I had to do was go on a zero fat diet and it returned to normal but then had to have my gallbladder out after being admitted to hospital a couple of times. The pain is unbearable prescription co codomol worked for me when I had an attack. If pain killers are not working you have to push for something different. When I had an attack I just had to lie down and not move and wait for the pain killers to kick in. I was in so much pain sometimes I couldn't even speak.

If you can’t get on top of the pain, go back and ask for morphine. Codeine can make the pain worse (and some people just don’t respond to it, it doesn’t do much for me for any pain). I have liquid morphine now for attacks which is the only thing that helps. Heat helps too, if you have a microwave pad or can sit in the bath for some relief.

Ive been waiting about a year, wait time is about two years here but because I have made a nuisance of myself and been hospitalised a couple of times they have escalated me and I just had my pre-op assessment so hopefully won’t be long.

If you do have gallstones and need gallbladder out, make sure you are pushing GP if you have frequent attacks so they eventually write a letter of escalation to bump you up the list.

And low fat diet, you’ll start to learn your trigger foods.

Gallstones are awful. I’m awaiting getting mine out. I am exhausted after a bad attack, and I am not a lazy person! I exercise daily, I work, volunteer, but a gallbladder attack takes it out of me totally. What pain meds have they given you?