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Posted 7/4/2013 11:58 PM (GMT 0)
The last several IBS attacks I've had (over the past two weeks-they've been increasing) have taken on a gallbladder aspect. WAY more nausea (before, during, and after), pain up under my ribs, in my back under my shoulderblade, and in my shoulder (again, before, during and after). I had been avoiding to my IBS triggers, so I've not been journaling to figure out what's been causing them.

I had gallbladder scans 12 years ago, but haven't since; I'm wondering what my best plan would be. I still don't have a GP, just my rheumy. What should I do? Try to find a GP quickly who will schedule scans? Wait till the next one (this one's ongoing, but my DH is out of the country-nobody to stay with the kids) and go to the ER? This is just MISERABLE.
Posted 7/5/2013 12:01 AM (GMT 0)
Get a scan. ASAP. If they have been increasing, that's usually not good.

See a gastroenterologist, if you can without a referral.

Have you ever had a colonoscopy?

If you have been vomiting, water and more water.

I had my gall bladder out in 2000, and remember the pain. By the time I finally went to the hospital, it was serious-surgery the next morning serious.
Posted 7/5/2013 12:05 AM (GMT 0)
Thank you. I will start calling around tomorrow to see who I can get in to see. It happened all of a sudden; I had never had these kind of symptoms (other than mild nausea with only the worst IBS attacks) until a few weeks ago.
Posted 7/5/2013 12:14 AM (GMT 0)
Avoid anything with lots of fat. No full-fat dairy. If it is gall bladder... though your symptoms sound like it. Still, a gastro will be able to tell.

Keep hydrating.

If it is gall bladder, the pain will come and go, with food.

I found a heating pad helped, some.

You get good drugs. -big grin- I ignored mine until I collapsed. I was and am pretty stoic about these things. It was not a pretty time in my life. My husband and I had just separated. It was actually kind of nice to be able to, legitimately, take a time out.

Post Edited (Myself 09) : 7/4/2013 6:17:37 PM (GMT-6)

Posted 7/5/2013 12:30 AM (GMT 0)
Go to urgent care instead of hospital, they are usually less crowded... I'm not sure if you have that in GA. I use urgent care when I was in OH.

I've got Gallbladder issue. I think I used to think was IBS... but last year I developed really sharp pain in my abdominal area around the liver. It's the most uncomfortable pain I ever experience.

Get some blood work for your liver, you should see some elevated GGT. Then ask for a ultrasound of liver and gallbladder. That would confirm your hypothesis.

I use muscle to elevate the pain, am having my surgery to remove my gallbladder in 5 days time...

Post Edited (clarie) : 7/4/2013 6:33:37 PM (GMT-6)

Posted 7/5/2013 2:39 AM (GMT 0)
Thank you all. We do have urgent care here; that's where I normally go when I have a sinus infection or bronchitis. Ours is absolutely wonderful! I will definitely give them a shot!
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