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Posted 4/13/2013 11:21 PM (GMT 0)
Does anyone have any experience with gallbladder issues while having UC? For the last several days I thought I was flaring, but it is different. My symptoms seem inline with gallbladder, but I do have UC issues too (blood & pain). I have an appointment with my GI on Friday.
Posted 4/13/2013 11:28 PM (GMT 0)
Are you having gallbladder pains or what exactly? what kind of gallbladder problems
Posted 4/14/2013 12:03 AM (GMT 0)
My gallbladder went bad and had to be removed right around the same time I started having symptoms and then the diagnosis of UC. The gallbladder pain I experienced was in my back and would radiate around my side to my front. It was a strange pain...not stabbing but more like a dull, constant, nagging pain. Very different from UC discomfort. Food intake would definately make it worse, especially anything heavy.
Posted 4/14/2013 12:24 AM (GMT 0)
about 2 weeks ago I had really bad pain under my right shoulder. At first felt like a pulled muscle but as it progressed it hurt really badly. Lasted a day only. I have horrible fatigue, no appetite and lower back ache ( especially in the morning). All that could be UC, but...if I eat, no matter what I eat, I feel really belchy. When I go to the bathroom, it really doesn't feel like nausea, but I start heaving and belch from way down in my guts. Sometimes it actually produces bile and/or vomit. When that is going on, I do pass small hard bms with blood.

Trying to figure if its just UC, gallbladder, Imuran or a mixture of all of it.
Posted 4/14/2013 12:35 AM (GMT 0)
Definately could be gallbladder. I had that burpy, nausea feeling too with it. It's good you have an appt coming up. A quick ultra sound will tell if something is going on with your gallbladder.
Posted 4/14/2013 5:52 AM (GMT 0)
I didn't realise you hadn't been to the doc about that pain yet...

Could be gallbladder. Curious if you have been checked for hiatal hernia?

q
Posted 4/14/2013 11:13 AM (GMT 0)
Last night was aweful! I ate a piece of toast with a very small amount of peanut butter for supper. Walked the dog then came home and was so sick. Threw up meds, food, bile, everything. Started with chills so crawled into bed. Had pain all over but especially between shoulders, lower back and upper mid left intestional pain. Just got up and am very belchy. I will be calling doc in the morning to see if I can get in and not wait til Friday or will go to ER if I don't feel better by lunchtime.
Posted 4/14/2013 12:58 PM (GMT 0)
Yes I had mine removed also. Can get lots of gas, bloating, belching. Sometimes can confuse the two problems. Can also cause D :/
Posted 4/14/2013 1:01 PM (GMT 0)
Im curious to see how many more of us had gall bladder issues I had mine removed because of the pain from stones and massive inflamation.
Posted 4/14/2013 3:51 PM (GMT 0)
This reminds me of what I have been going through. My GI thought I had gallbladder problems when I went in for major pain that was keeping me up at night. I went through an ultrasound and they found nothing so he wanted to do a different test. I said no because the pain was going away finally after a week. I had a few more attacks. The next year I went back in for diagnosis because the attack wouldn't go away and had reached an unbearable level. They did a CT and found that I was constipated (I could have told them that) and I had an ovarian cyst. Nothing with the gall bladder. Went in to talk about my ovarian cyst with my OBGYN and she said that I shouldn't worry about it and wanted to know why I had a CT. She said that my symptoms sounded like hiatal hernia.

HIATAL HERNIA! I spent so much money and then get a verbal diagnosis from a regular pap with my OBGYN. After much research, I am sure that this is what I have. I see a chiropractor and masseuse when it acts up. I find it acts up when I have been feeling unresolvable anger, exhaustion (I have two kids five and under) and have eaten a great deal of gluten...

I found major relief from this by doing my own massage. And addressing inflammation in my ileosecal valve. If you read up on ileocecal valve syndrome, you can see it causes a lot of other pains throughout the body like shoulder pain. I encourage you to read up on this because treatment in cheap or free and non-invasive.

I have achieved remission without meds of my UC by changing my diet and addressing my IVS and HH. I know in my bones it is all related for me. I have been very ill since 2007 and am so happy to have finally found some real help when all my GIs will do is prescribe prescribe prescribe. (oh and remove remove remove! i would fight very hard to keep my gallbladder. do not believe them when they tell you that you do not need it. they want patients for life. $$$)
Posted 4/14/2013 5:26 PM (GMT 0)
The peanut butter (oil) could be what set it off.

It was probably stomach acid you were throwing up and not bile.

Since you're having chills and extreme pain again and again, there's obviously something serious going on. Push to see the doc tomorrow...or, if you can't, go to the hospital.

My concern is liver as well...I hope the doc will do a full panel liver bloodwork .

Keep us posted for sure.

q

Posted 4/15/2013 12:17 AM (GMT 0)
Interesting...I need to google hiatal hernia. I am convinced my gallbladder needs to come out. I had an awful attack last Friday that lasted 4+ hours. Terrible pain in my right breast and right shoulder. And I have a pretty high tolerance for pain. We had lined up neighbors to watch our son in case needed to go to hospital. Thankfully I fell asleep and felt much better in am!

Opps I totally took over your thread w/ my own story!
Posted 4/15/2013 11:59 AM (GMT 0)
Spent yesterday in the ER. They did blood and cat scan. I got a bag of fluid and a shot for nausea even though I kept telling everyone that I only throw up when I poop. After 8 hours I was told that everything looked good except I had some colon inflammation. The ER doc called my GI as I was old to start 40mg of prednisone and keep with 150 Imuran. He also prescribed something for nausea eventhough again I said I only throw up when I poop. I really don't want to take the pred or the Imuran especially if the Imuran is not going to keep me from flaring.
Posted 4/15/2013 2:50 PM (GMT 0)
well, that's good news.
Where was the colon inflammation?

what about steroid enema meds?

Hope your doc's appt on Friday can shed more light.
You do need an MRCP methinks.

q
Posted 4/15/2013 2:53 PM (GMT 0)
MRCP? What is that? Do you think it would be bad if I refrained from the Imuran until my appointment on Friday?
Posted 4/15/2013 2:58 PM (GMT 0)
I don't know about the Imuran. You should have blood tests for liver/gallbladder/pancreas, etc.

MRCP is an abdominal MRI for the above mentioned organs.

q
Posted 4/15/2013 3:00 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks for the advice. I will definitely ask the doc.
Posted 4/16/2013 6:25 AM (GMT 0)
Just want to add that it's not invasive either...

q
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