People who've had gall bladder attacks?

I was on daily pills as i was not sure if i want my gallbladder out or not. In the meantime I was using regularly a tea extremely diuretic that i have used to loose weight (bought from Superstore). After almost a year of taking that tea about 3 times a week I forgot to take the pills. This is how I have discovered I might have been cured. There was a post prior about a "cleansing bladder procedure". I would follow that one. The tea I got from Superstore was "slimming tea" - found on organic aisle. I did not have any issues at all in the last two years. I am using the tea maybe once a week but not all the time.
Gallbladder pain usually happens around 2-3am. Water and vinegar, warm pack where it hurts (or fill your tub with hot water), stay away of heavy/fatty foods. GOOD LUCK !!!

Hi there! I've had gb attacks as well. As far as my experience, mine were right after my first child, then randomly after that. I do not have stones, so I decided to try and keep it. Look up some info for yourself first. I do not remember everything because it's been a few years, but the Dr. didn't tell me. I found out myself, from a medical journal, that you have a greater chance of colon cancer if your gallbladder is removed. I decided to take some really good digestive enzymes that had bile in them. Sounds crazy, but after a few months of taking those, I came off all my acid reflux meds and have very infrequent, very mild, gallbladder attacks. It's always when I've been eating fast food, too.:(

I've had gallstones for many years...I had the worst attacks about 5 years ago..where they would last three days or more. I saw a surgeon and he recommended I lose weight before I have the surgery due to possible complications..I was losing weight fast..doing wonderfully..and he said I wasn't losing it fast enough..after several times of hearing him harp on me even though I was doing everything I knew I could do..I gave up on losing weight at that time...gained every bit back. I am now losing weight again. On my own terms. Yes I still have attacks...but they are not anywhere near as bad now..its a very rare thing for me. Whenever I do eat very greasy fast food and especially Chinese food..I will have at least a minor attack causing diarrhea for a couple hours and some stomach pain...after that I'm fine. I do know how to manage it now so I don't have the major attacks..and I'm working on losing the weight without a doctor's supervision now...without their medical-know-it-all attitudes that I'm not doing enough when I am.

Yes the pain is in your upper mid-section..and it always felt like my stomach turned to a rock...the pain would radiate around to my back including my whole upper back. I would spend hours, if not days, in the bathroom sick to my stomach fearing that it would explode.

The doctors gave me a list of things I shouldn't eat that would trigger the attacks being fatty foods, lettuce, seeds, nuts, fruits with seeds. Honestly the lettuce sometimes gets me..but not as bad as Chinese food will. You will rarely see Chinese food logged in my diary because I won't go near it usually. Noodles!!!! I won't even look at spaghetti anymore. My kids wanna cry cause I won't fix it..I love it..but it was bad about bringing on my attacks. You have to figure out what triggers it for you and manage it while losing weight if you are as big as I was/am.

Once I get down another 50 lbs. I will get myself in for surgery assuming the thing doesn't try to blow up on me or something. LOL

Good luck with your journey and whatever it is that is ailing you! :flowerforyou:

Wow I can't believe some of your stories, having to wait that long and doctors dismissing the pain? It reminds me of when my little brother was having gall bladder attacks to the point of throwing up and the doctor tried to say he must've pulled a stomach muscle... :noway:

In my case, and I think in many other cases there can be trouble communicating the symptoms in a way that tells a doctor where to look for the problem. When I had attacks, it felt a lot more like a searing hot pain in my spine, not in my abdomen or side. I felt like I was just melting from the inside. As soon as I found a doctor who didn't think I was drug seeking for "back pain" and she sent me over for an ultrasound, the rest of my symptoms began to make sense as well.

Our bodies are ridiculous.

I was reading and couldn't see but maybe I missed it..... Is the pain more right below your ribs or more lower abdomen around belly button level or lower?

It's right below my ribs, right in the centre of my stomach, so upper abdomen.

One of the times I had one of these "stomach aches" I had a lot of upper back pain but I don't know if it was from it or not, I remember wondering why my back hurt thinking maybe because it was my TOM even though I never experience back pain with that...and I'm pretty sure during the TOM it's usually lower back pain people experience. I don't *think* i've had back pain the other times though, but just as I haven't noticed if the stomach aches are more central or to the right or not, at the time I'm just curled up in pain.

Wow I can't believe some of your stories, having to wait that long and doctors dismissing the pain? It reminds me of when my little brother was having gall bladder attacks to the point of throwing up and the doctor tried to say he must've pulled a stomach muscle... :noway:

My main symptom was upper back pain, and sometimes feeling like I had a tight band around my chest. I never got it checked out because it felt like muscle pain and I thought it was from bad posture or something, though it kept slowly getting worse. It went on for a year and a half before I had my gallbladder out. I never had any of the abdominal pain or nausea until the final attack where I ended up in the ER. And even then, I didn't really have severe abdominal pain. I went to the ER because of a burning feeling in my chest and left side.

I can't believe there are hospitals that would make someone wait five hours when having chest pains. When I walked in and said I had a burning feeling in my chest, they took me back in this special room and I had an EKG within 5 minutes. After it was normal, they sent me out to the waiting room.

Did you have an ultrasound yet? That's what I do for a living and that will tell you definitively.

Gall bladder issues in people who are losing weight is extremely common. So much so, folks who undergo weight lose surgery are often given medication to help prevent gall stone development during the initial 6 months of fast loss.

I developed pancreatitis, caused by gall stones. A week in the hospital then surgery took care of it, but pancreatitis can be very serious in some cases. Do not put off having your gall stones taken care of, it that's what it is. It's much better to electively have it taken out than to need surgery emergently in the middle of the night.