Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: Advice for trip for a new sufferer, please!!!

Hi Kelly!
When I first had my gallbladder attack I had terrible pain that radiated in my entire abdomen, but it felt like there was a knife jabbing threw my upper back. That night I threw up for 5 hours straight before I went to the ER, 2 days later the same thing happened to me.
I used to have pain in my chest and upper back area all the time and I felt nauseated all the time. In fact I used to tell people I had morning sickness.
I would eat saltines and drink water and that was about it, everything hurt and I lost a LOT of weight.
However, I was a very rare case....they did abdominal xrays, Ct scans, I drank barium and they tracked the time in went through my system (to see if the gallbladder was filling) and they did not find stones or anything. They did an endoscopy to check for ulcers..nothing but I kept getting sicker. Luckily I had a really good doctor who had seen several gallbladder cases like mine and he suggested that I go ahead and have the surgery.
I did and they discovered my gallbladder had shriveled up and was full of sludge that you can't see on an xray. Thank goodness I had it removed!!
Since then that pain has been gone...
You sound like you might have some of the classic signs, life is too short to live in pain, get checked!!
Hope this helps!
Amy

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