Gallbladder? - Gallbladder Message Board

Hamilton92 · 05-06-2007, 10:57 PM

I don't know what is wrong with me and two different general practitioners and a gastroenterologist can't tell me what is wrong.
My gastroenterologist gives me Prevacid which does nothing and I go through bottles of Gaviscon and Mylanta which also does nothing.
I have an extreme burning in my upper stomach and around my belly button area. It is worse after I eat or drink anything. Even water makes the burning worse.
It never comes up in my esophagus as acid reflux. I get extremely nauseated sometimes to the point of throwing up but never do.
I am constantly burping. The burning is worse when I sit with my knees pulled up to my chest. I sit like this sometimes in my computer chair. It is comfortable for me with my feel up in the chair and my knees up to my chest but I can't sit like this for long because it makes the burning intense.
The only really thing that helps me is hot tea. The heat from the tea soothes my stomach.
The Prevacid that I have is the dissolvable and it just burns my esophagus on the way down and then makes my esophagus feel tight and full but does nothing to relieve the burning in my stomach.
I had a hida scan which revealed my gallbladder was slow in filling up and the ultrasound of my gallbladder, the gallbladder couln't even be seen. It had contracted up underneath my liver.
I also had an endoscopy and colonoscopy which only revealed mild colitis, I think it has gotten worse. Its been a long time, over a year since I've had these tests, I have asked for another but the gastro doc says he sees no reason. He says I don't have acid reflux, no evidence of acid in my esophagus but he can't explain the burning in my stomach.
I do get mild to moderate pain just below my ribs on my right side that come and go but I don't get them that often. Maybe once or twice a week I'll have a pain for a few minutes.
Can anyone help me? Any advice is very much appreciated.

MAD MAZ · 05-07-2007, 01:50 AM

Hi I do have the pain above my belly button and I get real bad pain under my ribs, mine is more on the right like you I have had tests.

The Endoscopy showed inflammation of the duodenum I take Losec for it !!

I also feel sick but am not being sick, I have not had the hida scan but had a scan on my gallbladder that was OK no stones. I do have a under active thyroid ... Mandy

jujubee7 · 05-07-2007, 07:06 AM

I have been having stomach issues for a few weeks.. bloating, chest discomfort, pain in my upper ab, not severe just constant, shortness of breath. I had an ab ultrasound and it showed nothing so they sent me in for a HIDA scan last week and it showed my gallbladder is not functioning at the right percentage... so I am having my gall bladder out.. with high hopes it will ease all of my symptoms!!!

Good luck.

Hamilton92 · 05-07-2007, 07:15 AM

My symptoms are ongoing for about 3 years now with no answers.
I am scared to eat because it just makes it worse. I am trying not to lose any more weight because I have lost so much already. When this first started I lost about 70 pounds in like 3 months.
I am 5'10 and weigh about 130 now. When this first started I was overweight at about 245.
I can't get any answers from doctors. I don't have insurance right now so I can't go back and get other doctors opinions or more testing right now.
I've had bloodwork for every imaginable disease. My gastroenterologist even went as far as to accuse me of being anorexic and telling me I'm doing this to myself! After I begged him to find out what was wrong with him and told him how badly I want to be normal and eat again... I told him I wanted to GAIN weight NOT lose weight! I will never go back to that doctor again.
Milk and dairy products used to help my stomach now it just makes it worse.
I have been drinking these new yougurt drinks for digestive health you can get at the grocery store called DanActive and eating Activia yogurt so hopefully it will bring me some relief. Until I get an answer I am basically living off of soft foods and lots of nutritional supplement drinks trying to gain some of my weight back or at least maintain weight so I don't lose anymore.

mizzaj · 05-18-2007, 12:26 PM

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Originally Posted by jujubee7

I have been having stomach issues for a few weeks.. bloating, chest discomfort, pain in my upper ab, not severe just constant, shortness of breath. I had an ab ultrasound and it showed nothing so they sent me in for a HIDA scan last week and it showed my gallbladder is not functioning at the right percentage... so I am having my gall bladder out.. with high hopes it will ease all of my symptoms!!!

Good luck.

Hi JuJubee7. Like you, I have been experiencing bloating, pain in my upper abdomen that has been constant but not severe, and a bit of chest discomfort. This has primarily been for the last week. Prior to that, my biggest issue was not being able to eat much without getting insanely full (for about two months).

It was three months ago, however, that everything started with intense stomach pain in the upper ab and would come and go every few days (but subside after a few hours). I had an ultrasound that showed what they *thought* were stones. Yesterday, I had a HIDA scan. As weird as it sounds, I hope it shows that my gallbladder is underperforming, because I don't know what else the problems could be at this point. I am just hoping that I can get it out and be done with all of these problems! Like you, I have high hopes that removing it will take care of the problems!