Guest guest Posted January 17, 2008 Report Share Posted January 17, 2008 I am new to this group. I have been having upper right quadrant tenderness, fullness and dull pain for 4 months now. I had 2 bouts of terrible diarrhea during this time too (lasting for 10 days each) I had extensive testing done-ultrasound, CT scan, MRI, colonoscopy, endoscopy & meckles scan. All of which were normal. I begged for a HIDA scan and it came back with low ejection fraction of 16%. My GI said to remove it. I met with the surgeon and he told me that he did not want to remove since my pain is not severe and there were no stones or sludge. I was happy to hear him say that, but the tenderness/dull ache/fullness is pretty much daily. My main concern is that I really want to get pregnant soon (I am aged challenged, so time is running out) and my fear is that if my gallbladder is already sluggish and pregnancy makes it even more sluggish-won't I be at risk for stones or worse pain? I have already lost 2 pregnancies, so I would hate for something to happen again. Not that I want the surgery-but if it will prevent further pain or emergency surgery during pregnancy then I would rather have it out now. My GI said to try and cope with the pain, try to get pregnant and if I get gallstones we will deal with it then--not exactly comforting words. Any advice? Do natural treatments help with a lazy gallbladder? I can only find info on the flushes helping stones, not what I have. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. elizabeth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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