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The agony of Gallbladder pain

If anyone reading this is in pain, my heartfelt sympathies go out to you.  Pain causes indescribable suffering and makes you extremely bad tempered, and understandably so. The worst kind of pain is the one that is misdiagnosed, and that your ordinary painkillers make no difference to at all.

A commonly mistaken pain is that caused by gallstones, or an inflamed gallbladder. The pain starts in one spot in the right of your ribcage, and then spreads like a toothache around into your back before settling in under your right shoulder blade.

One woman, upon being finally diagnosed with gallstones, commented that she would rather have her wisdom teeth extracted than suffer the pain again.  Another sufferer, who also suffered from gum disease also said she would rather all her teeth fell out! So what causes this agony? There are two reasons for pain in your gallbladder. One is gallstones, where calcium builds up to form a stone which in turn blocks the bile duct and stop the bile from your liver getting to your stomach to break down your food. The second is a diseased gallbladder which is being effectively burned as the bile passes through it.

If you have this pain and you are diagnosed with ‘trapped wind’ or some similar trivial ailment, dispute the diagnosis. The sooner you are diagnosed and given the correct medication the better. The pain will get progressively worse and the attacks will come more frequently, until it gets to the stage where surgery to remove your gallbladder is the only option.