Gallbladder pain, and the scan

Started 24 June 2026 · 11 replies · 65 hearts · read 673 times

BaySt Ives, UK · 24 June 2026

4 weeks ago

Something I have been sitting with: Gallbladder pain, and the scan Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

I have avoided asking about this for six weeks out of pure embarrassment.

I have had a fortnight of this and then three good days and then another fortnight, and the pattern is the bit I would most like to understand.

Squeamish subject, so I am going to be plain about it and get it over with. It has been going on for long enough now that I would like to know whether it is ordinary.

Before anyone says it: yes, I have an appointment booked. I would still like to hear from people who have had this, because I would rather go in able to describe it properly.

Not after remedies particularly. Mostly I want to know whether this is ordinary and how long it went on for.

NadirCasablanca, MA

The thing I underestimated was tiredness as a symptom in its own right. I kept looking for a dramatic cause and it was simply that I was very tired.

RaviLeicester, UK

I went in about mine, it was investigated properly, and it was not what any of us feared. Going in is the whole of my advice and I have no other.

NilsUppsala, SE

Building on what Ravi wrote rather than answering the original question.

The hardest part for me was not the symptom, it was not knowing which category it belonged in. Ordinary tax, or something to raise this week. That distinction is most of what this circle does.

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal

Speaking as a facilitator: a symptom that is frightening you is a reason to ask, regardless of whether it turns out to be anything. Nobody qualified will think you have wasted their time.

CasperOdense, DK

For me the useful question was not what to do about it but how long it typically lasts, because that turned an unbounded problem into a bounded one.

BrimHalifax, UK

Tomás — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that and came out of it knowing less than I went in with.

OsipTbilisi, GE

What I would ask is whether anything else changed in the same week. Mine turned out to be a completely unrelated thing that I had attributed to the medication for a month.

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BrammyBelfast, NI

I had one genuinely rough fortnight in two years. One. I say that because if you only read the difficult threads you will get a badly skewed picture.

LarkGalway, IE

I logged mine against the day of my week and the pattern was so clear that my prescriber changed one thing and it mostly went. The log did the work.

TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal

#10

I want to say that the honesty in this thread is exactly what makes this circle worth having, including the parts nobody enjoyed writing.

PersisBristol, UK

#11

Mine got worse before it got better, which I wish somebody had told me. About ten days of worse, then a fortnight of gradually less, then nothing.

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