Question 1

what are symptoms of gallbladder attacks?

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Pain and nausea: Upper abdominal pressure discomfort with gas and bloated feeling after eating, may get upper abdominal pain and nausea, sometimes vomiting. Worse after eating some fatty or greasy foods. Pain can go into the right upper abdomen.

Question 2

what can i do to relieve gallbladder symptoms?

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Low fat diet: Your gallbladder stores bile.  When you eat fatty foods or fried foods the gallbladder secretes the bile to break the foods down.  So if you want to keep your gallbladder happy avoid foods high in saturated fats and fried foods.  Eat a healthy diet with plenty of fruits and vegetables.

Question 3

what are the symptoms of a diseased gallbladder?

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Nausea, vomit, pain: Dull, achy pain in right upper abdomen or under breastbone, often radiating to back, between shoulder blades, often after a fatty meal, in evening, increasing intensity, often associated with vomiting. Can be with fever, dark urine, light stool, jaundice (yellow eyes and skin)-not good; signs a stone is stuck in the pipes. Can lead to inflamed pancreas (also not good). Any doubts-see md.

Question 4

what are the symptoms your gallbladder going bad?

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Going bad: Can mean acute cholecystitis, pancreatitis, cholangitis.  Symptoms are pain, nausea, vomiting, fever, jaundice, change in color of urine or stool.  If you have gallstones, these things are bound to happen.

Question 5

how can i decrease the symptoms of my gallbladder?

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Cholecystectomy: Gallbladder removal (cholecystectomy) remains the "gold standard" for treatment of gallbladder disease.  It is a safe, usually simple operation, typically performed via minimally-invasive surgery.  While there are methods to dissolve gallstones, they fail because the stones return.  Avoiding fried and fatty foods may decrease the probability of attacks but is not foolproof.

Question 6

what are common symptoms for gallbladder problems?

Accepted Answer

Biliary colic: Gallstones can remain asymptomatic or cause gallbladder infection, obstruction of pancreas and/or liver. The last two can be life-threatening. Docs recommend gallbladder removal when gallstones are diagnosed and patient is symptomatic, with bloating, belching, pain after eating, worsening with time and fatty foods. The risk/benefit analysis favors laprascopic cholecystectomy.

Question 7

i think i have gallbladder problem. what are symotoms?

Accepted Answer

Abdominal pain: usual symptoms from gallbladder with gallstones are right upper quadrant abdominal pain, 30 mi to 4 hrs after eating fatty food, that last for 2-4 hrs, associated with nausea and occasional vomiting. If symptoms do not improve after 4 hrs, I will recommend to go to the ER. Once you started experiencing symptoms you should visit your family doctor so he order an ultrasound.

Question 8

what exactly does gallbladder issues symptoms feel like?

Accepted Answer

See below: Gallstones can cause mild symptoms such as upper abdominal gas bloating and pressure discomfort after eating. Sometimes there can be more pain in the right upper and middle upper abdomen with nausea and vomiting, worse after eating fatty foods. Sometimes the pain will go into the upper back. Sometimes yellow jaundice with abdominal pain could happen if the gallstones move into the bile ducts.

Question 9

what are symptoms of thickening of the gallbladder wall?

Accepted Answer

Symptoms: Are a description of what a person feels. There may be no symptoms from an isolated radiology finding of gallbladder wall thickening. If it is associated with gallstones, then some chronic gallbladder inflammation or irritation may be present.

Question 10

does gallbladder symptoms intensify while laying on back?

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Yes: When laying on your back, a stone can roll into the infundibulum of the gallbladder  and obstruct the cystic duct, the duct the gallbladder empties through, causing  biliary colic ( gallbladder pain). Sir zachary cope described this as happening to him in his book " the early diagnosis of the acute abdomen", a must read for interns.

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