what is gallstone colic?

Answer 1

I had it, it is horrific pain. It radiated down both arms, and to the front and back of my chest. Crushing unrelenting, I thought I was having a heart attack. My heart rate doubled. I was soaked with sweat. The surgeon came into my hospital room the next day and told me I was having emergency gall bladder removal surgery, though not usually an emergency proceedure, the cause needed to be found before a blocked tube caused more trouble, or I had another episode. He thought I had a stone caught in a duct. Post surgery, the report said my gall bladder was swollen and raspberry red.
Diagnosis was with blood tests, and a ulttrasound. My gall bladder was full of small gallstones.
The pain had finally passed on the way to the ER, I had called my parents to come and get me, I told them I thought I was dying. I am a nurse. They believed me. The ER doctor thought I had indigestion, I had eaten a lean pork chop, and some candied yams for my supper, he thoought I meant I had had candy, and a lot of it. My Doctor was out of town, another doctor was taking calls. He told the ER doctor if I said I was sick, I was, and to admit me. He knew what I did for a living, and had seen me drag myself, pale and coughing and short of breath into his office a few years earlier, and saying I knew I had pneumonia. I did.
Early warning signs of gallbladder problems can include pain, indigestion, nausea, loose stools, malaise, all of these sometimes worsened or caused by the ingestion of fatty foods. I had had all of those for years, except pain.
The saying is, the people at highest risk for gall bladder problems, or already have them, are fair, forty, fatulant, and fat. The four "F's". I was 26, and had eaten a balanced, healthy diet all of my life.

Answer 2

I have suffered from the age of 14 with terrible colics. Then again at 21, and finally at 28 when I had to have my gallbladder removed. It turned out to be non-functional, without stones. My mother also had 2 gallstone ops. My grandmother was operated on, but sadly died in 1943 of peritonitis ( Infection internally). It appears that gallbladder problems are hereditary. All I can say is that a low fat diet can help, but ultimately the removal of either the stones/gravel or the actual gallbladder are required.

Answer 3

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Biliary colic is the term applied to the system complex occuring when there is sudden and complete obstruction of the cystic duct by gall stone. It is described as colic because it occurs intermittently although pain, when it occurs, is continuous; thus it is not a true colic.

Answer 4

The Gall bladder produces Gall which is used to break down fatty food in the stomach, if you have gall stones then the gall can't secrete the juices and starts to burn the gall bladder. the usual treatment these days is to remove the gall bladder itself, you can live quite happily without it..

to reduce the pain at the moment try going on a low fat diet, try looking up low lipid diet on the Internet

Answer 5

It's a terrible thing..if you have it...without surgery you can deal with it by eating a very low fat diet..I did it for a year but got so thin the doctor operated so I could eat more. The most terrible pain I ever had and I have had two children!

Answer 6

http://www.hmc.psu.edu/healthinfo/b/biliarycolic.htm