Pain under left ribcage... Supposedly gallstones

Hi it sounds like gallstones to me as I had the same problems before they found the stones and then removed the gallbladder. Stay away from fatty food I followed a mediteranian diet that helped alot and I went gluten free and wheat free and I stopped red meat as the body have to work twice as hard to digest it. Hope it helps.

Yuk - sounds familiar to me too.  Pale poop - if they are putty or grey coloured it is usually a sign of stones.  I didn't have that until my gallbladder had been blocked and I had jaundice.  The doc told me to stop eating food with fat - go to zero fat or very low fat food (amazing how difficult that is at first when you read every label for healthy food because even brown rice is higher in fat).  After doing that I had much more relief from the symptoms until I had the operation a couple of weeks after.  I had also stopped eating gluten because initially I wondered if I might have inherited my dad's coeliac condition.  Previously a different doctor said hiatus hernia (tablets did nothing) then another doctor said probably double hiatus hernia, but only then put me in for tests.  Finally only when I went yellow did they spring into action and send me for a scan - which none of them had even thought about before.  Gallstones show up very well in a scan so I hope you get some good news after that.  

Try not to eat too spicy food either and drink water, chew everything finely (you eventually eat less that way too - which helps you in the long run both with weight and digestion). I also switched to rice noodles instead of pasta - much lower in fat.

Sorry that you're suffering with this.  If you haven't already seen one get referred to a gastroenterologist, who can properly diagnose and treat you. An ultrasoud may not reveal if you have gallstones, especially if you have very small stones and sludge.  So, you might need a CT scan, and also a test to measure how much bile your gallbladder releases into you small intestine during digestion.  It's called a HIDA scan.  

A diseased gallbladder needs to come out.  Leaving it in the body can lead to all kinds of problems, including cancer.  

If your stools are surrouded by yellow fluid, the yellow fluid is bile, and it's an indication that your gallbladder can no longer properly measure and release it.  It may also be an indication that your body is no longer able to absorb the bile released during your digestion.  Lots of people who can no longer absorb their bile get diagnosed with IBS-D.  IBS-D is basically a catch-all diagnosis for lots of conditions.

Best of luck and let me know how you do!

I've had many similar symptoms and I have known gallstones and scarring of the gallbladder. The typical gallbladder attack is usually on the right upper abdomen - mine were centre and all along ribs but docs said pain can be referred. The I got left under rib pain as well and I was dx with hiatus hernia, which people say can be due to the hernia or it can be pancreas, intestinal, rib pain, etc. Your scan should be able to see if anything up with the gallbladder etc. Many digestive tract ailments have very siilar symptoms and it is often difficult to differentiate which is causuing which symtpom or pain.

Soooo..... Apparently no gallstones but still pain under both left and right side, indigestion vs acid reflux

Where do I go from here?????