meat-suit related query

[the_siobhan]

Amybody on my f-list ever have gallstones?

What did it feel like?

Comments

[miss_squiddy]

A friend just had them. She went to the doctors twice and was sent home with severe stomach ache both times even though it's hereditary for her too. Ended up in Casualty on morphine, which is apparently very good. She's been told to avoid fatty foods for the foreseeable and has been living off fruit and veg.

My colleague at work had a really bad case (needed surgery) and described it as a stabbing pain in the side, so I guess it's different for everyone (although she's quite a large lady so they may have had a different cause).

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

The stabbing pain in the side is where I'm at.

Everything I've read said they can be controlled with diet, so I'll see what happens if I watch my food.

[liz-lowlife.livejournal.com]

Pain that is excrutiating after eating anything with fat in under the lower right rib....

Number one symptom.

[melete.livejournal.com]

It can also be a throbbing- or pulsing-like pain. It is often right up on the right side, usually right below or at the rib cage. I've also heard it described as a pain that is rather specific in placement, rather than fanning/radiating outwards.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

While my own gall bladder attack a few years ago evidently stopped short of full-blown stones (or else they were minute enough to pass without incident) that's a good description of the pain. It had me walking sort of half doubled-over for a few weeks.

Do get it checked, especially if you still have an appendix. Pain from one can be hard to differentiate from the other.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I thought that too, but it's been a few days and there is no tenderness, fever or nausea. In fact, pressing on it helps reduce the pain. So I'm thinking it's not likely to be my appendix.

[melete.livejournal.com]

Erm, what I meant was that it is *always* on the right side (if not, you have other problems that you would have already noticed) but often right up at the rib cage.

[medakse.livejournal.com]

I have them, but they're the non-symptomatic kind (that was a fun day: diabetes, high blood pressure, *and* gallstones--oh my!). I've had a few backaches here and there, but none of the really bad stomach pain in the front, and only after greasy food, which apparently aggravates them.
Stabbing pain can also be kidney problems, so if it persists, see you friendly neighborhood medical practitioner, yeah?
take care of you.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

*nods* Dr Interwebs (I love that phrase) also says to look out for jaundice because it can affect the liver. So I plan on being careful.

[miss_squiddy]

Good luck! Hope it sorts you out!

R passed hers but she said the morphine really helped with that (and she was out of hospital and festivaling with us halfway across the country the next day).