gallbladder problems during pregnancy

[sarahh18]

I'm wondering if any of you ladies had troubles with your gallbladder during pregnancy. I collapsed at work last night with horrible pain shooting through my upper tummy to my side and I thought I was losing baby. I'm 25 weeks tomorrow..I took an ambulance to the hospital and spent the night there running all sorts of test. Baby girl is perfectly fine and all they could find was sludge in my gallbladder. I'm not home resting. Wondering if any of you experienced this and if you then had more problems (gallstones...and what not) I'm afraid its going to flare up again..

[jazzalynsmommy2013]

Yes i had galbladder problems pregnant with my so no matter of changing my diet my galbladder just couldnt break the grease or even acid down so i had my son and im say maybe 6months later i had to have emergency sugery to have mine removed but its very common when ur pregnant your galbladder is having trouble breaking the bad toxin down

[flaka88]

Im.not sure if i get gallbladder pains they r in my chest they last for bout 5 min then go away for now. But when i wasnt pregnant it was bad i would throw up cnt sleep an felt it get stonger..i tild the dr but she juss told me that it was probably gas...i dnt know its thats where ur gallbladder hurts o do i have something else..

[kmommy2b]

I had gallstones before i was pregnant but im sure it hurts more and is much more stressful during pregnancy. i had gallstones so bad that they had to go in with the endoscope and take them out because they were so big. my gallbladder ended up getting infected and because of that i ended up with pancreatitis.. even when they starved me for 3 days in the hospital i still.had pain. When i got it removed my gastro doctor said she never seen a gallbladder ao destroyed esp for someone as young as me ( i was 20 @ the time). The gallstones never let up for me i ended up having pains for days straight id say get it removed if u are able to it was the best thing i ever did i seriously felt like i was dying. For me, changing my diet didnt help and it kept happening. i hooe you dont have any more i know how painful it is :(

[ShebbyLynn92]

Yes do change your diet because the pain doesn't get any better. & flare ups will keep happening I was told gall bladder problems are common while pregnant. :/ if they give you pain meds do not be afraid to take them that's how I survived & the only way I was able to sleep through the night.

[Jazzylovesgato]

Nt to scare u bt if u already started with the pains I dnt think thy will stop. Mines started slowlly n ended within 3 mins bt then got stronger n lasted longer from 30 mins to 3 hours just feeling the pain I cudnt doo much becuz drs never checkedd.where the pains were coming from. Wat helped me is I wud make myself go to sleep thru the pain. just watch wat u eat eat healthy stuff n try nt to eat greasy food becuz the gall bladder is wat processes fat and spicy food well food in general. Tmi bt since thts the job of the gallbladder to process food after mine was out pure diarreah all day everyday the only reason,i stopped with the diarreah its cuz im pregnant n constipated now. Lol well goodluck with tht hope it dnt get worse

[kiwibird13]

I have gallstones and was supposed to get rid of them before i fell pregnant as i used to get bad pain everyday but now iv changed my diet on what flares it up i dont have problems after i have baby i am going to do the detox for it to break it down and pass it through

[ShebbyLynn92]

yes ma'am I had my gall bladder removed in my second trimester bc it was making me soooooo sick & I was losing so much weight & in so much pain ue to gall stones.

[sarahh18]

Yeah I took an ambulance and all that. It was severe pain my entire abdomen was tightening up from the pain starting in my upper chest and shooting down my side to back.. at first they thought it was contracrions.. then just sent me home after all the tests because they can't do much with gallbladder sludge and pregnancy I just hope I'm done with flare ups

[Jazzylovesgato]

I had pains around 9 weeks with my first pregnancy. Thy all said well Drs said its gas n lungs are squished im like I knw its nt tht I knw. I was even rushed to the hospital by ambulance cuz of the pain just for them to send me home n say pains are normal in pregnancy im like wtf do ur job draw blood do something. Bt thy didnt soo all thru my pregnancy I had those pains n had to deal with it. Slowly the pains increased to the point tht I was induced n a week later the Drs found out it was my gallbladder. Poor me it.almost ruptured inside of me cuz it was soo inflammed.

[4thonecoming]

I had problems with my gallbladder with my last pregnancy, they said I probably needed it out, but after she was born I was fine

[sammiejo13643]

I have gallstones, found them a few weeks ago when i had radiating pain across my entire abdomen, chest to pelvis.  They werent inflamed or too big so they didnt do anything.  I get flare ups every now and then but they say its usually worse after you eat, as thats when the gallbladder releases its stuff to start digesting food. Well, at least thats what i was told. I unfortunatley dont know how to keep it from happening.

[sandy_baby3oct6]

When i was 5 weeks pregnant with my son i was having terrible pain in my upper abdomen i went to the er for it twice two days in a row and they kept telling me i had pulled a muscle which i knew i hadn't but they wouldn't do anything for me! Well by the third day i was in such terrible pain i couldn't even move without crying out in pain and i started running a really high fever and shaking and throwing up really bad so my husband took me to another hospital within 30 minutes of being there they had given me morphine and was wheeling me up to emergency surgery after the surgery they told me my gallbladder was so badlyinfected if  had even just waited one more day to come in me and baby would've died!! I was so so so angry with the first hospital i went to for not running the appropriate tests and catching it sooner!! I hope they are giving you the attention you need bcuz it can get very serious very fast!