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 read the guides here, which were more useful than anything else I have found, and I still have a question they do not cover.

What I keep tripping on is not the physical bit. It is the not knowing whether what I am experiencing is normal, and having nobody to ask who is not either selling something or frightened for me.

My prescriber has been fine, genuinely. The problem is that I get nine minutes twice a year and there is no version of nine minutes that covers this.

Thanks all. Genuinely.

NadirCasablanca, MA

Yes to the burping. It is real, it is unbeautiful, and it does settle.

RaviLeicester, UK

I am about four months behind you and I have been dreading exactly this, so thank you for writing it down before I got there.

NilsUppsala, SE

Building on what the opening post wrote rather than answering the original question.

My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.

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TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal

I want to slow this down a little. There are four different answers flying about and they are all somebody's real experience, which makes them true and not necessarily relevant to the person who asked.

CasperOdense, DK

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

BrimHalifax, UK

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.

OsipTbilisi, GE

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.

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BrammyBelfast, NI

Different experience here, for balance. Mine did not improve and in the end I stopped, and that was the right call for me. Both outcomes exist.

LarkGalway, IE

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week. Not because it is definitely serious — because it is the sort of thing that is much easier to rule out than to worry about.

TomásFacilitatorLisbon, Portugal

#10

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

Gently: you have apologised three times in a post where you have done nothing that requires an apology.

PersisBristol, UK

#11

Yes. All of this. I had the same in my third month and I remember thinking there was something specifically wrong with me, which there was not.

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