Gallstone issues - Digestive Disorders Message Board

ceri78 · 10-08-2008, 11:25 AM

Hi everyone,
just wondering if any of you could help me out,basically im having difficultly with british nhs!!! Ive been to see 3 diff doctors (basically im in the surgery evry week for past month!) and am now waiting for ultra sound on my gallbladder which has been a month since it was ordered and still no letter of a date!
History-since April ive been suffering heartburn daily and nausea on and off and if i overeat i have this horrendus pain that start below sternum through to back and around lower ribs feels like my chest is in a vice,i usually vommit with this also.This pain happens once a month and im being fobbed off with co-codamel and pethadine tabs each time.From looking at posts on this site im 99% sure its gallbladder related as my mum also had gallstones around the age i am now(30) and had her gallbladder removed,only wish i could talk to her but she sadly passed away 7yrs ago.
cut a story short, i like to know off anyone exactly how long did you suffer like this till you had proper diagnosis and had the damn thing out!!
Thankyou xx

rozbel · 10-08-2008, 03:13 PM

hi
sorry to hear you're having trouble. the first doctor i saw wasn't my actual gp, just someone standing in for him. i had just had my 2nd gb attack which was so severe i just screamed at my daughter to get me an ambulance. that doctor told me it was a tummy bug. i didn't see a doctor at a&e as they were busy and the pain had gone by then. the 3rd time it happened i saw my own gp who diagnosed gall stones and sent me for a ultrasound which comfirmed it. i saw a surgeon about three weeks later and had my gb removed 7 weeks later. the government guidelines are that from referral from your gp, to a surgeon, to the op date should be no more than 18 weeks. good luck with your scan and hope you get your problem sorted out.