We do not have insurance so I cannot just pop into a doctors office. It sucks!
This post is almost a year old. I've had the surgery and never felt better but thanks for all the replies ladies! Y'all are really supportive!
I didn't know until I had the attack. Trust me, if you have a gall bladder attack, you'll know. It's usually triggered with fatty foods.
Chinese food set mine off for the last time.
You will have something coming from everywhere. You won't even want to move when it hits hard. If you experience that, you needed a very prompt trip to the er.
I don't recall symptoms up to that point though.
If you're worried, stay clear of trigger foods. Try low fat, lower carb. Eat more veggies.
I had no trigger foods or prior attacks. I went from incredible pain to surgery in a little over 14 hours. Turns out that it was incredibly infected. For the 10 or so hours in the ER/hospital room prior to surgery morphine was my best friend. And I could still feel some of the pain.
a gallbladder attack is pure PAIN! intense long pain. I put up with it for years because doctors said "IT LOOKED NORMAL" . I endured a gazillion tests for everything else. When one doctor decided to accept my word and removed it. The Hospital head of enterology came in and asked if they could KEEP MINE and use it for teaching because "they had never seen one so malformed inside and scarred". So..insist with your doctor. It could look perfectly normal...is is inside? and like appendix....not necessary to live a full long life!!
I've had 2 "attacks", or at least I considered them to be. It felt like something was squeezing me inside right below my lungs. It was horrible pain, I could barely walk. Had to go to the ER both times.
Daily I have pretty regular heartburn and I'm extremely burp-y after I eat or drink anything. Lots of times I have pretty awful gas pains. I've tried to only eat healthy foods and it doesn't make a difference, in fact I love salads and veggies and those are the foods that give me the most trouble :(
I'm just so sick of feeling bloated and nauseous and heartburn-y all the time.
Also I do exercise regularly, I jog 3-4 times a week. Don't know if that's supposed to help anything but it can't hurt.
Yep, thought it was a heart attack. Sister's a nurse, she thought it was gall bladder, but I couldn't get my breath, so we went to the ER. I have gallstones. Lost my insurance through divorce, was in the process of getting other insurance but had the attack the week before they came to take my blood for the insurance. DENIED DUE TO PRE-EXISTING CONDITION. Never been sick in my life, now I can't even get insurance.
Fatty foods trigger it - and just like lilpep100, Chinese food triggered mine (haven't eat Chinese in 6 months)! Have been watching the fried food, they gave me pain meds in case it happens again, but they recommend surgery. Still paying off the hospital bills, a little at a time.
My sister had hers out a few years ago but now has, how shall I say, bathroom issues. Runs to the potty right after meals and says sometimes she will just expel what looks like bile. Someone mentioned taking lots of calcium will bind up the bile and make things better. She just started on that.
Don't judge ADHD if you don't understand it!!!
- nodramamama311
on Jul. 28, 2012 at 4:25 AM