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AUTHOR: babyherrin | | | I think i experienced something similar!
At 3 months pregnant, i experienced a terrible episode of gas (burping). It lasted a few hours - the air just kept coming and coming.
I thought it was part of the heartburn I had been experiencing since i didn't know what that was, never having had that before.
2 months later, I experienced the same thing, but it didn't go away until i vomitted. In the months to follow i had 2 more episodes that were the same, ending with vomiting and having had incredible gas along with a pain between my lungs that was beyond cramping - more like a charley horse. Relentless, powerful, piercing pain.
3 weeks after my baby was born, I started having the same episodes but more frequently- I took Gas-X (containing simethicone) and it helped. At the next episode (these were always coming on in the evening)the Gas-X didn't work and the vomit was like battery acid. (It burned coming out "the other end" as well). The episode finally passed after a few hours - I used an electric heating pad on my stomach to help take the edge off the pain.
At the next episode/attack, I used pepto bismol and it worked. The next time, it didn't. By this time i had used up any remedy that I could think of and I was ready to pass out from the pain so my husband took me to emergency.
There they gave me "pink lady" which is like liquid anbesol (to freeze the inside of your stomach) so that they can rule out acid reflux. It didn't work.
They started me on pain medication which helped ease the pressure and I was on it for a few days until the pain let up.
For me, what they think apparently happened was that I had a gall stone stuck in a tube which was backing up bile into my liver (my enzyme count was over 800 and it should be under 100 to be normal). I also had pain in my rib on my right side and pain between the bottom of my shoulder blades. I had also turned yellow.
An ultrasound showed i had several mobile stones in my gall bladder.
They sent me for an ERCP (endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography) where the doctor gave me a sphinxterotomy - he cut the hole bigger where the bile comes out of the gall bladder. This is so that the stones can come out more easily.
The surgeon assigned to me when i came to emergency the week before wants to talk to me about taking out the gall bladder entirely sometime in the future.
I plan to use natural remedies first to see if that helps -- drinking lemon water daily, and my uncle used an olive oil remedy that softened his stones so much so that his ultrasounds didn't show any stones any more.
It is a day after my ERCP. It feels like I passed a few stones in the night but that may just be pain and tenderness from the invasiveness of the exam (pancreatitis); this pain is supposed to go away eventually. Besides the tenderness, the pains are sharp but come and go.
When I was in the hospital, each doctor and nurse in contact with me asked me if I'd had heartburn during pregnancy. If heartburn during pregnancy has anything to do with gall bladder attacks, then i consider my doctor to be NEGLIGENT and CRUEL(!!!!) for not warning me about it first of all, and then also for not helping me avoid the attacks! I don't think it is just cruel for me but also for all (and there seems to be many) the other women that end up in the emergency room for gall bladder problems (another woman came to emerg. 5 min. after me with the same thing). I read A LOT of books and magazines during pregnancy and the only advice I found was for heartburn and that was to sleep on the left side and to take Tums. | |  | |
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