Hi everyone,
no doubt I've missed quite a few posts which I'll need to catch up on. I'm recovering in bed from a horrible gall bladder attack, which left me in a painful, nauseated state in hospital for a couple of days. Friday night I started to get a dull ache right under my right rib area and side, and it got more and more painful, like a bad pulled muscle. I couldn't think of when I'd pulled a muscle though! By early Saturday morning I'd spent all night sitting up in an armchair in pain, trying to sleep but vomiting intermittently from both the usual nauseam hunger and the pain.
Saturday afternoon, hubby had just gone over to his dad's house to check on his health and I was with my eldest stepdaughter and my two oldest children. I couldn't get comfortable and suddenly doubled over in excruciating pain, my whole side locked, then my left side, and I couldn't breathe without excruciating stabbing pains. I had to ask SD to call both hubby and an ambulance, because I didn't know whether this could be related to ectopic pregnancy, what with the pain radiating into my shoulder as well.
Ambulance came, me on all fours, embarrassed in case it was just a muscular thing;off to the Liverpool Women's Hospital where checks were done and pain relief given; lovely doctors and nurses there. Ruled out ectopic by US, so got to see little baby! 7 weeks 1 day as I thought.
However, they weren't happy to send me home without being checked at the general hospital. I was in pain still and felt so sick, so I had codeine (which made me more sick).
The long and the short of it is that I knew I had gallstones, and they ruled out other stuff with an x ray and an ECG, bloods, and so on; I could have another attack but they are reluctant to operate to remove the gallbladder so early in pregnancy, it's preferable after the first trimester. Gallstones and gallstone attacks are more common in women who've had lots of pregnancies and babies...so low fat, fairly bland diet for a while now...terrified.
Just glad baby seems alright.