gall stones club

LOL oh that cracks me up!!! Nah I can say Im a member of that club (touch wood) I have seen the pain it causes thou from working and I have to say it looks horrific!!!!!

I found out I had a gall stone just as I found out I was pregnant with Anastasia. When I was 8 weeks preg the stone & her were the same size (checked it on the ultrasound) havn't had any problems since then so havn't done anything about it, dr said to wait to see if it bothers me again.

Had gallstone attacks 2 weeks after birth. I first thought it was normal uterus contractions and it will get better. Did for a bit until I hit 3 months after birth. Started get ting worse and worse until one night that I was hitting my head against the wall to feel a different pain.

Hubby took me to the dr right there and then and they immediatly expected gallstones. Scan done and they told me I can speak to a surgeon next week. But 2 days later I landed up in emergency and this dr gave the scans one look and told me he is calling a surgeon right now. They wanted to take my gallbladder out that night but as I was vomiting and they didnt know when last I ate they did me first thing in the morning. That dr in emergency literally saved my life. As much as I love my daughter I dont think I would have had another child if that is what labour felt like and I had to give birth naturally.

Call me a wuzz.

yep I have to agree, pushing a bubba out your va jay jay is WAAAAAAAAAAAY less painful than gallstones. I also have the small sand like stones, so am getting my gall bladder taken out. I see the specialist in 2 weeks, and haven't had an attack for - touch wood - two weeks now. The second bad attack I had was when Char was 2 weeks old and I honestly thought I was having a heart attack, and I couldn't breathe. I was in the bedroom, kicking the wall so Rod could come down, I was in so much pain, I couldn't walk or yell, and I whispered ring an ambulance, I'm having a heart attack (I didn't know I had gallstones at that stage. We just live 5 mins from hospital, so it was faster for him to take me than ring an amby. It was horrific, and hooked up to ecg's etc. I felt reeeeeaaaalll dumb when the DR asked me what I had eated and I said "roast pork"... worst thing, apparently...
The first attack I had was when I was 22 wks preg and went to southland hospital (I was in invercargill on hols) and they just said it was the baby, no scan, nothing. Made me feel like a dick PLUS the assumed I was a solo mum, and were rude about it... they didn't clock the huge dia I wear on my engagement finger!!! (they actaully said is the father still onthe scene!!!!!!!)

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Hi there. I am new to this site. I think there is a possibility that I have gall stones too. I started having 'attacks' about 3 months after my daughter was born ( she is 14 months now). I have been putting up with it but the last attack scared the beejeezes out of me. My husband was away, daughter in bed and here i am lying on the bathroom floor wondering if I should call an ambulance beacause if I died there was no one else home!!!! Anyway I went to the doctor the next day and have a scan booked for next week, only problem now is I have just found out I am pregnant!! My question is for those of you who had it while pregnant, how did you cope obviously now they can't operate. I have been sticking to a low fat diet (which for me is quite difficuilt!!!) I am scared that an attack like that may harm the baby or bring on labour or something?? Any advice would be much appreciated.( sorry for the long post!!)

I was told that certain stuff will cause me to have more bile in my tummy and therefore get heartburn ect. Definately get it if I eat anything too fatty.

I'm a fourth generation member except Mum didn't bother mentioning it until I was in hospital doped up to the eyeballs after my first attack (age 17). It was the night after I'd had a full-on nachos and beer night with some friends and had tried my first cigarette... I thought it was the smoking and that somehow I'd been struck down for it. In any case, gallbladder and offending stones were removed 6 months later, 4 days before my 18th birthday.

Thanks heaps fattartsrock! Will talk to the doctor when I go back. Anything that will help reduce the pain a wee bit is worth finding out about! Appreciate the advice, thanks.

I apparently had an attack years ago, before I was preggers and yeah it sucked... Apparently they dissolved or something before I got to see them though so lucky for me no surgery.. They just left a bit of a scar trail through my kidneys and other organs which picked up in the ultrasound at the time.

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Oh kidney stones Is that the kind that you pee out?

When I think back, it was extremely painful and I was rushed to A & E cause I turned yellow and was in so much pain so they gave me sweet sweet drugs (can't remember the name now)... The next day I felt 100% better and had an ultrasound which is where they told me what they thought it was, but in fact I never went back to the doctor to discuss further.... I was just glad to not have to pee out a rock!