Help! My Daughter Has Gallbladder Attack Symptoms But... Posted: 04-09-05 11:27am
I hope someone can help me as I am running
out of ideas. My daughter has been ill
for 5 weeks but was actually not acting
like herself for over a year. She is
fourteen and at first I thought her being
tired and run down was just her body
adjusting to becoming a woman. Now, for
the last five weeks, she has had pain in
her right side, nearly constant nausea,
very fatigued and headaches and some neck
aches her back also hurts sometimes.
We have had her to the doctor constantly
and they have done test after test. She
has had two series of blood tests, mono
test (also a blood test), ultrasound of
her pancreas, gallbladder and liver, cat
scan of the same with and without
contrast, an upper gi with and without
contrast, and x-rays. She had a hida
scan done three days ago and her result
was 54%. To me, that doesn't sound good
but her doc said this couldn't be the
problem since her fraction was so high.
We now have to schedule her for an
appointment with a pediatric specialist
and the nearest one, which is 100 miles
away, says that november is the earliest
that they can see her!! We then tried
doctors up to 250 miles away and the
soonest we can get her in is 6 weeks.
She looks worse every day and has been
eating so little yet gaining weight. She
is starting to get depressed,
understandably, and has been unable to
attend school for the past 5 weeks. They
are now enrolling her in homebound
schooling and she stands a risk for having
to do part of this year over. She is
such a good student and this is really
weighing on her mind. She has been given
only one medicine, phenergan 25mg, which
makes her too tired to function but which
does ease the nausea.
Does anyone have any ideas as to what our
next move should be? I am considering
taking her to the hospital that is 100
miles away and going through the er with
her hoping that maybe they will have to
let her see the ped specialist instead of
making us wait 7 months!
Any help would be so appreciated!!
Thanks so much!
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interested*party
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Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 8
Posted: 04-09-05 18:24pm
Though i'm a relative newie in here hon,
i've found some pain relief these last
couple of weeks from eating basically
fruit & veges.. But as often as I
want.. & by increasing my water
intake really really drastically...
I got the pain to go away about say - day
two 1/2 , and until I was norty the other
day - i'd basically slept pain free, and
woken pain free for each day.
I ate ham & cheese, & spaghetti
bog last weekend, and the pain was back
within 24 hours, so I swapped back to no
meats & fruit & veges.. And it
went away again..
Hope this helps..
I know it's only a stop gap, and it's
definitely not a long term solution, but
relief from the pain changed my energy
levels, and really just changed everything
for the better.
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Reply Posted: 04-13-05 20:49pm
I would see if the dr can do a hida scan
and put more of that stuff into the iv
needle at the end when they monitor it for
the last 30 minutes. I had several hida
scans done over a course of 3 years and
all were normal, around 50 percent as
well. I knew it was my gallbladder, all
symptoms pointed there. I have lived with
this severe pain, headaches, bloating,
tirendess, nasea and severe back pain as
well as the pain under my ribs and on my
right side......For three years, and my
new pcp decided to ask them to put in more
of that stuff that is supposed to
duplicate symptoms of gallbladder attack.
Bingo! The other hida scans did not make
me sick, the one I had last week did. It
was no fun, but the attack went away after
10 minutes and it found my gallbladder to
be functioning at a 10 percent after the
injection.
At long last I am going to be pain
free...I hope!. For three years, I had
doctors telling me it was not my
gallbladder, or it is my gallbladder but
tests are fine. Some drs even thought I
just had bruising.
I will say this, a non functioning
gallbladder is hard to find. Obviously.
Too bad theres not any better technology,
and if you ask me an hour and a half is
not long enough to observe the function.
Hope this helps.
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Gallbladder Posted: 05-12-05 21:06pm
For about 6 months I have felt really
tired and just not like myself.
Thanksgiving, I discovered that I had 7
kidney stones. So, naturally everything
that felt bad such as my stomach, my back,
the nausea, and anything else that didn't
feel normal I blamed on the kidney stones.
Well, about a month ago I passed the
stone that was the large one, and probably
the small ones too. Finally driving home
one day it hit me like a bolt of
lightning, gallbladder! I knew nothing
about it. After a sonogram, the Dr.
Suggested a hide a scan. My gallbladder
did not show up until they added more dye
for another 30 minutes. Finally just
enough showed that they finished the test,
which consisted of an injection of
something equal to a steak dinner; about
30 seconds later I was deathly sick and
had this dull pain in my chest and back.
I have a non funtional gallbladder. So
this coming monday it's coming out! I
have been told I am going to feel so much
better. I agree with the person that
says, add more dye. The normal percent
is 34% mine is20%. All I know is I have
felt awful, and that is just not normal
for me. Good luck to you
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willowmist
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Reply Gallbladder Posted: 10-22-07 12:16pm
I just have my gallbladder removed 1 week
ago and mine was making me feel that way
too mine was full of gallstones you need
to find a really good surgan and let them
check her. They found mine buy ultrasound.
i hope you get her better...
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kayleen
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Hi Posted: 01-07-08 10:04am
i had my gall bladder removed about 5
months ago but am now finding out that i
might have appendicitis as well from what
i found out appendicitis can mimic
symptoms of gall stones so is hard to
discover maybe your daughter has
appendicitis symptoms are the same as gall
bladder disease and she should get it
checked out because your appendix could be
swollen then the swelling can go down so
it makes appendicitis difficult to
diagnose and i might have not had to get
my gall bladder removed and now i will
probally have digestion problems the rest
of my life if they say your daughter has
gallstones make sure there right cause she
could have been miss diagnosed and have
appendicitis.
here are some of the symptoms
for appendicitis:
pain in the middle of your stomach You
have pain in your belly. The pain may
begin around your belly button.
The pain in your belly gets stronger and
moves below your belly button on your
right side (the lower right quadrant).
This is the most common place to feel pain
when you have appendicitis.
The pain does not go away and gets worse
when you move, walk, or cough.
You have pain in any part of your belly or
on your side.
You feel nauseated or throw up a few
times. You also may not feel like eating.
You have constipation, back pain, a slight
fever, or a swollen abdomen. it can also
cause some tiredness as well well i
hope this helps tell me how everything
goes
