Well, I had the hida scan and the numbers are high. My doctor did not know what that meant so he asked the technician who did the test, tech did not know what that really meant but said that docs usually take it out with high number, I don't have the number.

I am 51, not obese but not svelt, on estrogen for HRT, fair: Irish, and so on. Grandmother had gallbladder, mother has minor gallbladder issues and now me.

I have extreme pain in upper abdomen after eating donuts, ice cream and now pizza, I have given up donuts and ice cream but pizza? can't do it!
The pain very, very often wakes me in the middle of the night first time I thought it was heart attack but reasoned with myself and realized heart attacks usually don't occur at night in sleep. It bores through to my back, it travels up my neck into my ear. It is really bad and now with the last one, diarrhea and that is impossible for me, I take high doses of opiods for spinal stenosis (need surgery for that soon legs going very numb) and I always need to take senokot, 4 a day to get things moving, but now the senokot is not necessary at all with the diarrhea from the gallbladder, and I totally empty out with it and if I may be graphic here its pretty nasty and lacks a lot of color. If I get up and stand at the kitchen sink drinking a very cold glass of water, and try to make myelf belch and can acutally belch a few times it seems to relieve it somewhat. But it amazes me how painful it is due to my opiod intake. Leaves me to think the pain could be much, much worse.

So any doctors out there which should I do first-the gallbladder or the spinal stenosis. I figure it this way the stenosis shoud be first because the nerve damage most likely will be permanent the longer I wait, the gallbladder will more or less have to be done without haste and it won't matter that I am recouping from spinal fusion at that point. They will have to do it.

Any thought suggestions greatly appreciated.