Trapped wind or gallstones? Eek!

[ElleBing]

Sorry to go into this on here but I've been having intermittent upper abdomen pains since friday night. They're crampy, gripey pains and they come and go in waves. I feel slightly nauseous with it and the discomfort seems to be radiating into my left shoulder blade and under my ribs. On friday night when the pain forst showed up, I was sweaty, light-headed and had a fast heartbeat. All of those symptoms seem to have ceased.

I don't feel ill enough to call the emergency doctor but the pain doesn't seem to be easing as I would think it would if it were something like gastroenteritis (as I thought it was at first) Sorry to be gross but I did do a pretty tremendous bottom chorus earlier and it alleviated the discomfort for a little while. However, I've just been reading up on gallstones and my symptoms seem similar.

Do any of you MNers know anything about this type of thing?

It does sound v similar to gallstones, I had the same symptoms before I had my gallbaldder removed.

Attacks tend to happen after eating fatty food though they do get progressively worse - I remember getting an attack after having a salad with no dressing! But try to change your diet a little now anyway as it may lessen the attacks slightly.

Best thing to do is to go to the drs, hopefully they'll refer you for a scan to check and then you can talk about treatment. I would recommend getting your gallbladder removed if they offer that option to you. Its keyhole surgery and I was home in 24 hrs.

hth

Thankyou Tilly. I do think that gallstones might be the problem. Zfter much scouring on Google (internet hypochondriac ) it seems that my symptoms are pointing to this. Oh well, I can deal with that.

Thankyou for your post.

If you place two fingers just below your ribcage on the right, press slightly then take a deep breath in, you will know because you will hit the ceiling if it is gallbladder related

You're welcome

Fliight, I never knew that, probably glad not to in retrospect