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I was diagnosed with gallstones last April via ultrasound, but I just had a CT scan done of the abdomen a few days ago, and it said
"CT does not show the gallstones of prior ultrasound."
Where did they go?? Why didn't they show up on the CT scan, but did last year on the ultrasound? I just posted a recent forum on here asking about gallbladder/gallstone removal, and chronic nausea.
Anyone else had this happen with a CT Scan?
I also have an enlarged liver of 19cm, which was only 18.8 cm last April when I had the ultrasound. Could the liver be causing my chronic nausea rather than the gallstones??
I still get pain after I eat or move around after I eat, or if I eat a fatty meal, so I'm assuming my gallstones are still present. I just wonder why
they would not show up on my CT scan.
I'm only a 21 year old female, obese but exercise quite frequently, non-smoker, non-drinker.
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donna70806 bloodblonde94
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Pray
bloodblonde94 donna70806
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sarah87162 bloodblonde94
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I had ultrasound and was told I had one gallstone.
However when I had gallbladder removed they said there were several stones.
I think an MRI scan will pick up a stone that ultrasound may not.
I would not have thought it would be anything to do with your liver as it has not enlarged that much. However I am not a medical doctor.
Take care and keep in touch
Sarah
bloodblonde94 sarah87162
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LittleMissDolly bloodblonde94
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bloodblonde94 LittleMissDolly
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LittleMissDolly bloodblonde94
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LittleMissDolly bloodblonde94
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Maybe your gallbladder is the issue, but you don't have any stones at present, or they are too small currently to show.
Good luck with everything
bloodblonde94 LittleMissDolly
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LittleMissDolly bloodblonde94
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bloodblonde94 LittleMissDolly
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LittleMissDolly bloodblonde94
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That would be causing you issues I'd have thought.
It's terrible when you're poorly and you go for help and end up more confused etc than when you started.
I had gastritis last year and they took a swab when they put the camera thing done and it wasn't infected.
You don't realise until you get poorly how one things impacts on the other. Especially for women!
truvixxen1977 bloodblonde94
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Good luck to you. .
LittleMissDolly truvixxen1977
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Blondblonde, it sounds like you are going to definitely need to have more tests. Good luck
bloodblonde94 truvixxen1977
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KkH bloodblonde94
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bloodblonde94 KkH
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I like my primary care doctor more, he seems more interested than specialists, but my insurance also doesn't cover specialists, so I don't go to them too often, especially since they're not doing anything to help me.
KkH bloodblonde94
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What my nausea is like IS morning sickness. Every once in a while I do NOT have the nausea as soon as I wake up. Most days, though, yes. I try to take the promethazine (anti-nausea) first thing, and stay sitting. Some days I start to feel better. Other days I remain nauseous. I definitely do not feel like eating. But often, if I eat something easy it makes the nausea subside. BUT, many days the nausea returns within 30 minutes.
More and more, the nausea sounds just like yours. I just can't do ANYthing! If I don't stay lying down I will start to throw up. [Found that out the hard way. I had to do some things to help my mother. I thought I could just "work through it". Forget it. Once I started vomitting I did that for at least 4 hours.] So, some days I am useless. And lying down like that I end up sleeping much of the time.
I also had what I figured was a stomach "bug"? I was SO sick. The action of vomitting really hurt my ribs and muscles, and probably the gallbladder. I felt totally helpless and so miserable. After the first 8 hrs I didn't throw up anymore. But I felt so bad. Then I tried to help my mother (I live with her), and I vomitted again. Still terribly painful, and went on for several hours. The whole ordeal was like a 24hr bug, only 36 hours.
This nausea is different from other kinds. It feels like there is this deep empty pit inside me. If I burp, I feel like I should have just vomitted instead. If I burp it seems cavernous and hollow inside. And NOT GOOD!
By the way, I found an article that says that the large gallstones usually do spontaneously pass out of the bile duct.
And this one that has pictures!
So, I am going to see if I can learn more about the nature of my own gallstone. Then I will pray that it will pass "spontaneously", if at all possible!
bloodblonde94 KkH
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KkH bloodblonde94
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My Dr. put me on Ranitadine too, about 10 months ago when I first complained of the nausea. And it really helped back then. So I have to try to remember to take it consistently. It does help some. I take the promethazine for nausea when I take my pain pills. So, maybe I am too used to it for this problem. The Dr., of course, would not give me a different nausea med unless he took me off promethazine. I took the Actigal or usodiol. The idea was to hope that the gallstone would dissolve and pass on it's own. I took it for 4 mos. I read that some of the side effects were the same as the symptoms for the gallstone! And it was affecting me in several of the listed ways, but I thought I could put up with them. But then I got badly swollen feet and legs (below the knee). It got really very bad. Of course, I didn't know that it was causing it at first. But it was unbearable. It made my feet and legs hurt and I could barely walk. So they told me to stop the Actigal and see if my feet got better. I did and my feet did, so I was discouraged about what the next step with the gallstone would be.
Of course, I have spent lots of time and energy trying to figure out if eating a certain kind of food the evening before made me nauseous the next day. Or maybe the right food meant that the next day I would feel Ok. I get so I think I know the right drill, But then something happens to prove I don't know anything!
I am trying to avoid surgery at all costs. So I am looking for diets that are meant to help lower cholesterol, like immediately! We'll see.
bloodblonde94 KkH
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I take my ranitidine every morning after my breakfast typically. I have to take it after breakfast because before breakfast, I have to take my thyroid medicine, which is said to interact with anti-acids and render them useless. If I go off the ranitidine as I did with the recent stomach bug my nausea will be ok for one day and I won't notice it, but after a week or two being off the medicine it really comes back bad, so now I'm back on it. Any time I try to go off the anti acid I get worsened nausea.
It doesn't get rid of the nausea, but it helps the severe part of it. Before I took ranitidine, I only got my nausea every few weeks, so that's why I've tried to go off it so many times, hoping I could get back to having weeks without any nausea, but no success going off it.
That sounds terrible! I was wondering if my doctor would be willing to try the Actigal, but I've heard it's terribly expensive, and I doubt my insurance would let me even try it. I also thought about the other way they try to break up gallstones which is by radioactive waves?? If they're small enough they try to break them up with the waves and let them pass on their own, but I'm not sure how large or small mine are.
That sucks that it didn't work for you, but glad you figured out what was causing the swollen feet!
Same with me! One day I could eat just yogurt and not be nauseous, the next day i could eat the same exact food and be nauseous! You think you're figuring it out, and then it surprises you!
Oddly enough, I ate two pieces of cheese pizza along with some tacos last night for dinner and I woke up with no pain or sweating this morning! However, I did take a tablespoon full of Apple Cider Vinegar which is said to help gallstones! I'm not sure if it did, but I'm grateful I didn't wake up sweaty and in pain!
I'm looking anywhere on the internet for the same thing! I know they say it's not an organ you need, but I think it's an organ you need! The fact that they can get rid of kidney stones, but not gallstones is just annoying. As of right now, I'm going to try to eat a little less fat, and continue take apple cider vinegar every few days to see if it keeps my attacks at bay. ACV is nasty stuff, so I mix is with orange gatorade or I'd gag. Good luck!
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