Those Of You With Gallbladder Trouble...

[RockinHippy]

Where abouts exactly do you feel the pain when you get a flare up & how does it feel??

Just that really. I'm trying to establish if a doctor is right, or I should be concerned there's more going on as current site of my pain flare ups are not where it was previously IYSWIM. Will add more later. Thanks

Had mine out a few years ago. It was in the centre and round to the right. All over my upper abdomen and sometimes lower as well. Used to go into spasms it was horrific. Also felt very sick and threw up sometimes. Mine was spotted in an ultrasound.

At first I just felt very bloated. Then I wondered if I'd broken a rib. At times it felt like severe waves of period pains but in the right hand ribcage, and I couldn't breathe while it was happening. Sometimes there's was bonus pale beige diarrhoea. Good times.

Under my right boob and all the way around in a band to the right side of my back. Also the whole upper right quarter of my back into my shoulder.

Also meant to add mine developed into pancreatitis which was incredibly painful and one of the symptoms of that was waking up in the middle of the night to throw up.

Yes I spent a night in hospital on an antibiotic drip when my gall bladder got inflamed. I remember getting a lot of painkillers but it was in the same place as normal.

Just to add the pain in an attack was worse than labour pains. Get your GP to refer you for an ultrasound and then to the hospital to get on a waiting list for an op.

As pp it felt like severe bloating, then heartburn. The pain was as bad as labour. I felt like my whole abdomen then upper back and shoulders were burning. Diahorrea (pale yellow) and dark brown urine. The worst attack lasted about 12 hours.

Always central for me. Doctor used to raise an eyebrow implying it wasn't gallbladder if it was central but it was and I had it out.

Bloating like I need to poo but can't.

Seriously painful in my back, right side half way up, and unrelenting like I cannot get comfortable at all, no position relieves it. If I press down on my front right side under my boob It feels like a bad bruise inside.

I take feminax as find it more effective than plain paracetamol or ibuprofen and I drink loads of water with lemon juice in which seems to relieve it faster than if I don't.

Around my bra band.

Where the bra band is on the right side and all the way up my shoulder blade. I always have pain in my shoulder blade but as long as I control my diet it’s pretty mild. If I eat fatty foods for consecutive days in a row though it becomes agony and I start to get pain in my front under my boobs and sometimes in my right lower abdomen.

I'm a bit of an anomaly. I get it in my right side sometimes but most often I feel it on the front left side of my upper abdomen, towards the middle but definitely left of middle rather than right of middle. When I do get it in my right side though it is the exact same pain.

Tricksy little bastard is coming out in nine weeks time.

Just under and beneath my ribs on the right. Was always in the exact same spot. V v painful, would wake me up at night and codeine was the only painkiller which came close to managing it. Went away in 4hours on the dot each time though.
I also developed pancreatitis which was horrendous.

Mainly top right just under my ribs, but as it got worse the pain spread out. When I had out it was massively infected, full of pus and stuck to everything around it. 14 months later I still my consultant!

So please don't be fobbed off!

Interestingly, you can also get pain in your right shoulder due to inflammation aggravating the right phrenic nerve.

The first sign i get that an attack is going to happen is a sharp jabbing pain in my left side, like someone has poked their finger really hard in to my side. Then the pain is under my ribs on the right side

Annoyingly enough I had one yesterday. I felt off all day Monday but couldn’t put my finger on why!

Woke up with really bad heartburn and my burps smelt like rotten eggs which is exactly what has happened at the start of every attack, it started 4am by 4.30 I couldn’t move I was in so much pain started in the middle just under my ribs and went down the right hand side it was agony (took co-codamol and some tramadol) then promptly threw it all back up. I also get pain in the shoulders.

I spent a good hour being sick from the pain.

I saw my Gp and when she touched my right hand side I literally jumped off the consultation bed. I also had very runny yellow/pale stools.

Sadly this is around my 6th attack in a year, I have been hospitalised with them but they will not take my blasted gallbladder out. Last time I was too infected and they wanted me to have antibiotics first then removed it, however they then ended up discharging me home as they needed the beds. I just keep on being fobbed off, doesn’t help my ultrasound didn’t show any gallstones.

I’ve been sent for blood tests and an urgent scan as I didn’t want to go into hospital this time, as I can used meds at home to help.

One of the nurses who looked after me last time I was in hospital told me the only i way I will get the operation is to go in every time I have an attack, as our hospital seems to dismiss gallbladder surgery at the moment. This time I’m going to really push them to take it out! So much so I’m going to find the NICE guidelines and print them off.

@MistyIsland That's crazy! Where are you? I started having bad attacks in September and they fast tracked me and I had mine out last week, so 5 months!

Can you submit a complaint to pals?

@HalfBiscuit I’m in the south west.

Because of all of this I’m now a type 2 diabetic as well, my Gp said it was because of the re currant gallbladder attacks and the fact it’s mucking with my pancreas and liver.

Mine was always in my back, just below the shoulder blade on the right hand side. Now it's been whippped out so no more pain.

I'm so sorry to hear that MistyIsland! Can't your GP do anything about it? You poor thing.

I had mine taken out 5 months to the day after the major attack that hospitalised me and feel so grateful and lucky when I hear of experiences like yours.

My Gp recommended losing weight - they have also written to the surgeons asking for a date.

I have lost quite a massive amount I’ve lost 1 1/2 stone since I was in hospital last December. I’m about 4 stone down now.

Heartburn

Pain that felt like a baby's foot stuck in my rib under my right boob and at the same place in my back. Pain was worse when I breathed deeply. Only position I was comfortable in was on my knees with them folded under me

Feeling but not being sick

In between attacks I felt normal

What I always felt was strange was the inability to keep still during an attack, for me anyway. I literally thrashed around on the bed, rolling from side to side, and couldn't stop myself. On two occasions the pain passed off spontaneously, and I wonder if the moving around shifted the stone. Who knows. My pain was under my right hand rib cage op, and running through to my back. Gall stones were diagnosed by ultrasound and I had them removed a few months later.

I used to drape a cold wet cloth over the painful bit. It did seem to make it better.

The cat used to sense when I had an attack and try and knead my tummy with her claws - perhaps an instinctive form of acupuncture - or maybe she just liked the heat...

Thanks for the replies everyone, that's a big help.

I do have diagnosed gallbladder polyps & a pancreas cyst, neither blocking bile ducts, but still gives me grief at times & ironically I've had a bad flare up of that this last couple of days too. note to self, don't nibble on taco shells this pain is exactly as yiu all described

I asked where you get pain because I believe I've another thing going on with flare ups of severe right side pain in my kidney area with feverishness, but it's not my kidneys. Ive been to A&E several times with it over the last decade or so & always fobbed off. Similar with GPS. Though they blamed my gallbladder trouble on fibromyalgia for years too😏

I've had A&E doctors & GPs tell me that my gallbladder is stuck to my liver, hence why I get pain in that area, rather than where it was with confirmed gallbladder infections in the past.

Upper GI doctor looking at my last scans said & I quote "what a load of rubbish" but wasn't interested beyond that as "it's lower gastro";

I've noticed this second problem is worse this last year or so, more frequent, longer & more server attacks of tearing, burning pain & comes with joint paint, extreme fatigue, drained shaky feeling & skin trouble that looks a bit like cold sores, but doesn't behave like that IYSWIM. I've just got over a 2 week long server flare up that pretty much left me flat on my back. It does ease if I lie down

My own GP is good, getting to see her nigh on impossible though. I had a telephone appointment with her, but she couldn't find space to see me, so booked me in with her colleague to look at rash, check my abdomen & arrange blood tests. I took DH with me as as I know this GP is far from great. She was less dismissive with him there but still fobbed me off with the same old excuse that it's my gallbladder stuck,to my liver & would have had me leave without blood tests etc had I not pushed.

I'm thinking some sort of IBD, or even possibly injury from a colonoscopy years ago, but so far I'm getting nowhere & wanted to check that my feeling is right, this isn't gallbladder & I need to kick some backside as they aren't listening

Thanks again everyone 💐💐