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Lockit -> RE: Any posters here in the medical field? (1/11/2009 5:22:58 AM)
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I used to get gall blander attacks for lack of a better phrase. The are like a sharp knife being stuck into you and will double you over the pain is so great. They looked for stones and could not find them. No reason for the pain. I finally found a doctor who was rare indeed and he gave me Belladonna which calmed things and kept me from ER. He told me that even smelling bacon or something fatty could bring on one of these attacks, which I thought was really odd, but I paid attention to what was going on around me and not just what I was eating.
What I found in the following years was that if I went long periods of time between eating, the attacks could come. If I ate fatty foods and once in a while if I was cooking fatty foods I could have a problem but it could simply have been the not eating for a while thing. If I stayed away from certain foods the attacks didn't come and if I ate, I had little to no problem at all. I was very senstitive and eating often caused pain, nausia and I became afraid to eat. So figuring out what foods I reacted to was major. We thought that sooner or later I would have to have my gall bladder removed, but would have to wait until they could actually see what was happening. For me this started over 16 years ago and I have very little problems with it and haven't since I learned what foods triggered it and that not eating triggered it. I still have problems in eating as it makes me nausiated, but that is the stomach and doesn't seem to be from the gall bladder.
My liver would sometimes show that it was trying to heal itself or would be swollen as if infected. This we believed was from medication that I had bad reactions to or was allergic to. Once we found out what medications I couldn't take, I no longer had a problem with it even though I was taking medication regularily. Tylonal was the biggest problem, following that, over the counter pain medications that could also cause stomach problems.
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