I realize none of you are gall bladder experts, but had to vent....

[danie17075rm]

So I had my HIDA Scan on Thursday.  When they injected the CCK I was in HORRIBLE pain.  This set off painful events all weekend.  Yesterday I was shopping with my 7 year old and couldn't stand straight.  The pain was SEVERE.  It went away after about 30 minutes.  The nurse called me today and said the scan was normal.  Being accustomed to asking for results due to my thyroid, I asked for the percentage.  Sure enough, I KNEW this would happen.  My ejection fraction was 96% which is actually not normal, but a hyper functioning gall bladder.  What is wrong with my body?  Apparently this is controversial and doctors don't know if they should remove it or not.  Everything I get tested is weird.  My whole body is falling apart. I see my doctor tomorrow, but she is an airhead.  I am sure she will say something along the lines of "oh yeah that is strange".  Sigh.  I just had to vent.  I wish someone could tell me why every single thing they ever test in my body is weird.  Nothing is normal =(.

[danie17075rm]

I normally eat a very low fat diet of fruits and veggies. I eat meat sparingly. I don't eat sugar or processed foods. My diet is clean so I don't think it's related although I could be wrong. It wouldn't be the first time lol.

[ktr19]

Diane, I guess you have a lot of “gall” questioning your doctors like that! ;)

But seriously, since bile is secreted to break down fats in the system, you may need to go on totally fat free diet to calm the gall bladder. My ex mother-in-law had a similar problem and they restricted all fats in her diet for about a month…it helped immensely with the pain.

[danie17075rm]

My problem is mine is functioning too much.  It is trigger happy and releasing a big dump of bile randomly.  This causes pain and gerd.  I have every typical gall bladder symptom.  I'm not sure that med would help in my circumstance.  My hida scan was 96 % and I think the average is somewhere between 30-70.  Anything under 30 is not functioning.  Mine is SUPER functioning sigh.  I have the craziest body.  This again is not the norm.  Most people do not have a hyper functioning one.

[Brucergoldberg]

ps-   do you have diahreah or anything?  there are drugs out there that can help with this if you do such as welchol or questrem light.   You drink it once a day and it helps the galbladder produce juice to neutralize the fat in the foods before it hits the colon.   (TMI i know)

[Brucergoldberg]

Lots of people with thyroid issues have galbaldder issues.  That was the first thing to go on me.  Mine hurt so bad, expecially when i exhaled.  My hida scan was fine, but i had a "thickening of the wall" and the lab report came back with "chronic cholesticitis".   They thought all my symptoms were from the galbladder before someone figured out it was my dumb thyroid.

My wife says that the thyroid probably ruined the galbladder but technically there was nothing wrong with the galbladder itself, just slow from lack of hormone.   And they had to put something on the lab report.  Guess they couldnt put "oh shi7 we made a mistake!"