Can anything else be wrong?

Posted By Jamie on May 02, 1998 at 02:34:48:







I am a 17 year old female. I recently had 2 things diagnosed. One thing was hyperparathyroidism and the other was that my gall bladder might need to be removed. Along with a whole heap of other medical problems, one main thing that was wrong was that I had been getting a very sharp pain in my left side, right below my ribs.  The pain often traveled up through my back. My gastroenterologist had me go through the HIDA scan.  That test came back showing that there was no abnormalities in my gall bladder (no stones, growths, abnormal size, ect...) The scan showed that my gall bladder had a 23% ejection fraction (close to normal from what i understand) But, the scan produced the same pain that I had been having.  They just assumed from there that it was my gall bladder that was causing me so much pain, and they de My surgeon decided to have me do the parathyroid exploration first and see if that might make my gall bladder trouble.  After I had the parathyroid exploration (removal of the bottom 2 glands, and failure to find the remaining glands) my pain was gone for about 2 weeks.  It has now returned and i am scheduled to go back to the gastroenterologist again.  He might order the scan again and see if things have changed but, he thinks that i should just go through with the surgery.  It just makes me worried that my gall bladder is functioning very close to the normal range, and i have pain in the left side and the gall bladder is located in the right side. I have also had an upper GI done and that came back normal.  I have also gone through and ultrasound and everything looks great on that also.   Is it at all  possible that my gall bladder is not the main cause of my pain and is there another test or scan that i should have done, or another avenue that i should explore? I have already been through one surgery and i would like to avoid another surgery if it is at all possible.  It just seems strange to me that the gall bladder is the entire thing to blame, but nobody wants to search anything else.  They are all convinced that i should just do the surgery.  I would appreciate any ideas that you might have, or any comments and suggestions.
Thank you