Please help! Advice needed regarding gallstones

Go to your gi push for hidascan that will show gallbladder function and tell them if you NEED it removed i just went through all this pain but finally got my surgery today dont brush this aside this is serious worse pain than child birth if left untreated you have to fight for yourself dont let them sweep you under a rug the pain your enduring is real your bot crazy and will only get worse. Im not by no means trying to scare you just want to prevent someone else from going through what i went through 4 hospitals and ers later losing 40# in a month sever malnutrition and immense pain please dont let it get worse 

Child birth is nothing to a full on attack from gallstones. Had my gallbladder out 4 weeks ago. Relief at last, worth having it done for me anyway. Do have post op. issues but should expect some discomfort. My attacks got worse and closer. Was ill on and off most days making life difficult. No regrets at all, talk to your doctor.

Good luck.

Wow how awful for you. Take it your in America, feel so grateful that we have our NHS. J hope that you get sorted out soon.

Hi...louiselc - your symptoms do sound quite similar to what I experienced about four years ago but not quite as advanced.  One thing I can guarantee you is that the sudden onset of pain is caused because the gall stones are blocking up the bile duct, and when you eat  anything fatty it triggers the gall bladder to squirt bile to break down fat and when it can't function as it should do this is what causes the most  awful bloating nausea  and pain. I spent eight days in hospital and had to have a procedure called an E.R.C.P. which is a camera down into the gall bladder and the stones removed under sedation. Six weeks later I then had the gall bladder itself removed laparoscopically after the infection had been cleared  by intravenous antibiotics.  Due to the blocked  bile duct I had the onset of jaundice and constant itching which is bile salts getting into the blood system. After the ERCP I was told by the consultant to only eat VERY low fat, basically only eat anything with less than 5% fat (I was on  boiled chicken and fish) and this will not trigger the gall bladder to squeeze out the bile. On this basis of literally going on a fat free diet, I lost 1.75 stone in six weeks! In a nut shell if you eat fatty foods it will trigger the pain definitely! The gall  bladder was removed and I was out of hospital the following day, you do feel as though you have been kicked by a horse for a few days but far easier to bear than the pain from the gall bladder not functioning properly. I pretty much eat most things, but try and avoid anything too fatty i.e ice cream last thing at night as the bile has to trickle down from the liver when you don’t have a gall bladder, but for me there was no choice but to have it removed. If you just have the stones removed there is a very good chance the stones will come back and cause a blockage again. The one  thing you don’t want to get is Pancreatitis which can  be caused by this problem. see link: https://patient.info/health/ercp  - hope all goes well -  nick2014

Not a good idea to keep a gall bladder full of stones...too many complications can arise!!