I have 8 mm stone in my gallbladder. It very often gives me inbearable pain.
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There's really nothing else other than surgery, I had my gallbladder removed it's a simple surgery and believe you me it is totally worth it, no more gallbladder attacks.
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This definitely sounds like gallbladder disease to me.  See your primary care physician sooner rather than later and ask for an ultrasound to rule in or rule out gallbladder disease.  If it's gallbladder disease, waiting is not a good thing.\n\nIn the meantime, while you're waiting to see your doctor and/or for the ultrasound, go on a NO fat diet.  Also, eliminate all tomato and acidic foods.  This helped me to survive while awaiting gallbladder surgery.  If your symptoms all but disappear with the above diet, then it is even more likely that you have gallbladder disease.
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As the bile crystals aggregate to form stones, they move about, eventually occluding the outlet and preventing the gallbladder from emptying. This creates symptoms.\nIt also results in irritation, inflammation, and sometimes infection of the gallbladder. The pattern is usually one of intermittent obstruction due to stones moving in and out of the way. All the while the gallbladder is becoming more scarred. Sometimes infection fills it with pus—a serious complication.\nOn occasion a stone will travel down the cystic duct into the common bile duct and get stuck there. This will back bile up into the liver as well as the gallbladder. If the stone sticks at the Ampulla of Vater, the pancreas will also be plugged and will develop pancreatitis. These stones can cause a lot of trouble. Bile is composed of several waste products of metabolism, all of which are supposed to remain in liquid form. The complex chemistry of the liver depends on many chemical processes, which depend in turn upon the chemicals in the diet and the genes that direct those processes. There are greater variations in the output of chemical waste products than there is allowance for their cohabitation in the bile. Incompatible mixes result in the formation of solids. Gallstones will cause the sudden onset of pain in the upper abdomen. Pain will last for 30 minutes to several hours. Pain may move to the right shoulder blade.
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I have also had the excrutiating pain from my chest thought to my back. This attack came on in the middle of the night once when I was 14 and the second when I was 18. I went to hospital and they x-rayed and found gall stones. I had  laproscopic surgery (though the belly button) and they removed my gall bladder with stones the size of large peas.\n\nPeople who get stones are usually the four F's\nFourty\nFat \nFemale\nand Fair (skinned because it is a european disease)\n\nGall stones are cause by inability to process fats because of excessive fatty foods. You need to have a look at your diet. Or if you are like me and are actually healthy, it could just be that you have a crappy gall bladder that doesnt work well.\n\nAs for the Fourty years old thing, I had mine very young but you are more likely to have probs when you are 40.\n\nI never had dihorrea though.
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Yes, and it will still hurt as bad. Life sucks that way.  You can still have small stones left in the common bile duct for one.  A lot of times there is a lot of "sludge" (no lie, doctors use this term) clogging the common bile duct.
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It could really be anything....lower back strain, kidney trouble, unrinary tract infection, or pelvic inflammatory disease. Do you have pain passing urine, or are running a temperature? The urine frequency......is it accompanied by foul frothy urine and pain? The bowel movement frequency and gas may be related to a lumbar injury, an infection, or simply because you've eaten something that causes it like curry or cabbage.\nIn any case, it'll be advisable for you to have it checked out properly by your doctor.
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I had mine removed about 8 years ago.. with mine I had the most horrible pain right below my rib cage that would last for about 10-15 minutes, closes I can describe the pain is child birth. I would get "attacks" 5-10 times a day, they would come on everywhere. All I would want to do is roll up in a ball on the floor until it passed... I still get "attacks" even with my Gall Bladder removed, they call them 'Phantom Attacks' not sure what it's caused from, but mainly comes on in the morning when I have an empty stomach, not nearly as painful as the real thing though.
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hello I had to have my gallbladder taken out. it wasn't bad at all. I only hurt for about 2-3 days and was back to a regular routine and the scars are not very big at all. They are relativly small. You will do fine. Its really not as bad as it sounds! Good luck
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I had the opposite problem.  My doctor kept diagnosing hiatus hernia or flare-ups caused by its scarring.  After many years of being ill on and off I visited the surgery and found my usual doctor was on holiday.  Seen by another who diagnosed impacted gall stones within two minutes.  Weeks later, gall bladder removed, never been sick since - that was ten years ago.  The test the doctor who discovered the gall problem was to push his fingers into my stomach under my lower rib cage - not sure which side, but by God it hurt.   His diagnosis was immediate quickly followed  and confirmed by ultrasound.  Fish and chips were my main culprit, followed by sausages, followed by cheese.  Cream cakes were like dynamite.   Wish you well and good luck.
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I had mine removed in May this year via keyhole surgery. No complications i was out of hospital after 24 hours. But i have still had to be carefull with the amount of fat in my diet as my body has not adjusted to not  having a gallbladder so doctor suggested a very low fat diet this sometimes happens after gallbladder removal i am told, but otherwise he will feel sooooooo much better more energy and of course none of that terrible pain. After surgery he will have some pain in the shoulder this is normal due to the nerves they bump on the way. The surgeon will explain that sometimes it is not possible remove via keyhold and they will abandon this method and do a full cut meaning a longer stay in hospital. But most cases even those like mine with a vast amount of gallstones can be taken out via keyhole, so dont worry he'll do just fine :) good luck Oh yes i forgot he will probably have very loose stools for a wee while but this passes with a carefull diet plan
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Have you hear of Pavlovs dog?\nInherrent response to stimulus- I work in ultrasound and the smell of coffee in some patients will make the gallbladder contract a little starting a digestive respose. Or maybe your just hungry?
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Kidney stones cause extremely bad pain- they say it's the closest pain to being pregnant. You'd get lower backaches too.\nStomach pains caused by depression make you feel like throwing up.\nConstipation... you fart a lot and it feels like a gas in your lower abdomen.
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This does not sound like Gallbladder disease. I would suggest seeing a doctor ASAP. This sounds more serious, and I really do not want to speculate at this time as to what I think it is. PLEASE, PLEASE go to the doctor. Your health is important!!
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Usually there is major pain (in your right gut)after eating something that has a lot of fat in it, like a burger & fries.  It can last for hours and then subside.  Also there might be pain in your back under your right shoulder blade.  While waiting for my gall bladder surgery, my doctor told me to drink a little (2 tsp) magnesium sulfate (Epsom salt) mixed in  (8 oz)warm water during a bad attack.  Tastes TERRIBLE, but it REALLY helps to get over an attack very quickly.
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Actually, my mother has kidney stones right now. Stones are a buid-up of calcium usually in your kidneys ,or in  your uncle's case, your lymohnodes. Its usually quite painful when your sitting or putting any pressure on them. You usually just eventually pass them but sometimes it is needed to have them flushed out medically. Its not harmful ,,just painful.
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FFS don't go down that road, I was 4 stone at one time, I now have kidney damage and periods so bad I can't even walk without someone helping me.
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Probably should go to the er, could be most anything from appendix to kidney stones. You need to be seen if the pain is really bad. Pain is always a symptom not the disease.