I highly recommend going to a doctor. When "luvumason" says they can make you "very ill," I feel like that's probably an understatement.
My wife was having some problems that her doctor misdiagnosed as pleurisy or something. He put her on antibiotics, and when they had had no effect for a week or so, he sent her for an ultrasound on her gallbladder.
He determined that she did have gallstones, but that she really didn't need to do anything at that time, unless the symptoms developed more.
Less than a week later, she collapsed at work. I went to pick her up and take her to the hospital, and when we got to the ER, they took her straight back, without the usual waiting room rigamarole. She was green.
One of her gallstones left her gallbladder and became lodged in her bile duct just before where it entered her small intestine. This caused the bile from her pancreas to back up, and she suffered acute pancreatitis.
She was hospitalized for a week, no food, no water, nothing but saline IV for seven days, and she wasn't allowed to watch ads on TV for restaurants or food products, or to even think about food in any way, because she was supposed to shut her digestive system down as completely as possible, in order for it to heal.
After a week of that, they went in and took her gallbladder, but the surgeon screwed it up, and ripped her bile duct. Another week in the hospital, a T-tube sticking out of her for around a month. having to drain and collect her bile. Hideous scars that make stretch marks look like a picnic.
On top of all that, it cost $100,000, and I could tell at every step of the way that the doctors were constantly afraid they were going to lose her.
Don't screw around with your gallbladder. Go to the doctor NOW. That's my advice.
