It’s an attack!

[brigid]

Mirrored from brigidkeely.com/wordpress.

I was reading this thing online and someone posted a list of symptoms of a gall bladder attack.

They sounded exactly like this pain/nausea/vomiting I’ve been dealing with for years.

It was so bad I actually went to an urgent care clinic, and I used some of the exact same terminology to describe my symptoms. I later went to a GP and again, used the same terminology (felt like a belt/band tightening around my upper chest/below my breasts, for instance) to describe what I was going through.

Nobody suggested gall bladder issues, even though I also reported that my dad had recently had his gall bladder removed.

This causes me actual, serious pain and projectile vomiting– once, so much vomiting that I began vomiting blood because my throat/nose were so irritated they were bleeding. It’s utterly, utterly awful.

And apparently can be helped with dietary changes.

I already avoid most dairy because I’m lactose intolerant, and don’t eat meat that often because too much animal fat makes me ill (but not in a heart burn-y, gall bladder-y way). I love cheese and I love butter and pizza is pretty much my favorite thing in the whole entire world to eat, but… I can either live with pain that keeps me up at night, or I can start cutting this stuff out of my diet forever.

It sucks. But it feels awesome that I might have a solution to this AT LAST. Especially one that doesn’t involve shelling out money for medications that make me functionally retarded unless I take a supplement to counter the side effect.

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Comments

[sara]

I have found that I have many, many fewer digestive problems since cutting back on meat and preservatives -- but I think everyone's "recipe" for this stuff is different! Good luck finding something that works for you....

[brigid]

I honestly eat little meat, so it's looking more and more like I'm going to be "forced" into vegetarianism. I'm not looking to reducing my cheese/butter consumption. I enjoy both, and really don't eat them THAT often (although when I do, it's usually a large-ish amount, so I can probably limit instead of completely cut out...).