possible gallbladder disease ?

It does sound like a gallbladder type issue, but there are other things it could be as well. If it's your gallbladder, and you do nothing, you'll likely keep having to deal with the pain. You already eat pretty healthy and avoid the bad foods, so not much left to try there. Maybe take in some beets and / or use a little more healthy oils for fats.

If there are stones, and one moves into the bile duct it can cause a blockage. If you do nothing, then you may have complications like jaundice or other more serious issues, but you'd likely have fever and other symptoms. At that point, you may have to be treated for the infection before they can do a surgery. However, people can go a long time having stones in their GB without needing sugery so it's tough to say. There is little evidence that anybody ever gets better from having gallbladder problems. On the other hand, there are plenty of folks who aren't better after having them out (likely the minority-but it's not a cureall).

You can have an ultrasound to see if there are stones in your GB. You can have a HIDA Scan to see how well it's working.

You could also have an ERCP done.... (tube down your throat) this will also detect problems/blockages
in ducts or sludge that is not moving out... good luck!!

I just wanted to let you know what I went through with stones in my gb. After I had my daughter I started to experience a lot of pain around the area where the sternum is. As I was only 19 years old, I didnt know much about why I would have pain in that spot. I was working like 3 jobs, I spent a lot of time on my feet, and I thought because the pain came and went, it was just from not resting enough or something. This went on for 10 years, the pain would come and go, but everytime it seemed to be a little more excruciating. People would say oh its an ulcer, here drink this old remedy it will help(a mix of warm water and baking soda) and it did to a point, also I had no insurance, so I would just tke the things people recom. to me for ulcer. Long story short the pain got so bad I couldnt sleep, eat or even walk half the time when I finally got rushed to the er the dr. almost sent me home cuz the visual tests showed nothing, he thought i was lying about the pain. then out of nowhere he comes into the room apologizing to me with a nurse next to him with this big needle in her hand. It turned out he got blood results (CBC) back and the enzymes in my pancreas were like triple what is normal. Obviously that means there is a problem, and an xtreme amount of pain because in that big needle was a big dose of morphene, in which he immed. had the nurse give me. I had my gallbladder removed, my point being, I waited so long that the dr. actually told me if I hadnt come in I couldve been poisoned by my own bile and been dead in less than a month. Thats how full I was of those stones, ready to explode. For some reasons the ultrasounds, xrays, and whatever else they use to check the gb are not showing what they need to, and woman are being told that they have gas, or an ulcer and sent home with some prilosec. Have the hospital tst the enzymes in your pancreas, gb, whatever it takes, but dont take no for an answer, and dont wait til its too late. Noone should have to suffer that kind of pain because the dr.s wont give the right tests.