Gallbladder polyps

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Can anyone who has these tell
Me If they twinge ever? Everything I've read says they should Be symptomless.

I had one diagnosed on an ultrasound after right pain/ discomfort under the right rib. I still get twinges occasionally.

I was diagnosed with GBP too, I already had long-standing gall bladder issues though. My surgeon explained at consultation that he rarely sees true "polyps" when he goes to remove them and it's nearly always misdiagnosed gallstones. Mine were indeed gallstones.

That's really interesting!

I was quite miffed at my sonograher as they misdiagnosed two conditions for me!
I had a full abdominal scan and neither of the things they "found" ended up being correct.
I had a gallbladder removal due to an "oversized polyp" which, fair dinkum, was stones that were causing me major pain anyway so alls well that ends well. But they also diagnosed a large growth in my uterus that I underwent a nasty hysteroscopy for but there was nothing there when they got in.

Crikey, that second one is a pretty massive error! Sorry you had to go through that.

Yeah, it was not pleasant and all the poking/scraping/disruption also affected my periods for months.

I remember the pain of the stones though, it kind of radiates out from the right/middle under rib area. I had terrible acidic heartburn too and pain in the top right lung/shoulder -ish area. If that's the case for you, it could be stones.
Fatty foods caused a lot of pain for me at the start. Anything fried or really oily. But towards the end pretty much all foods caused some degree of pain.
The operation was a godsend but I still have twinges around the area, but they are a lot less frequent and less intense than the gallstones pain.

I've had a couple of instances of shoulder pain and intense discomfort rather than pain under the right ribs.

Now it seems to be twinging in that generally area and A LOT of wind and gurgling stomach which my go says is unrelated. There was just one smallish "polyp" which weirdly when it was rescanned had "shrunk". Which I'm guessing polyps can't do.

What stage are you at? Who has translated your scan results to you?
If not a specialist, can you request a referral? It could take time on the nhs but better to be in the system than put it off.

Yes I think I probably need a referral. I'm not actually sure who interpreted the scans. The reports where just sent to my gp who said rescan in a year. I'm having a colonoscopy for the symptoms too, but should probably ask for a referral specifically for the gallbladder issue.

You really should, they may try to placate or redirect you but be firm.
I've heard some stories from covid times about a friend who has been suffering terribly with GB pain and stones, hospitalised and everything, but they still wont remove it because of covid/backlogs/cutbacks etc. You need to get yourself in that queue just in case it is a while before it's your turn. My pain increased rapidly, at some point I went from not having too much issues and pain to being really trounced by it daily.

Thanks so much for the advice @katicomps and really sorry to hear about the mistakes made in your experiences.