My Gallbladder Pain
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Today I will talk about my gallbladder pain, how it started what I did to make it worse, and much much more.

If you had gallbladder stones did you get your gallbladder out or were you able to heal naturally? Let me know.

Disclaimer: I am not a doctor. This is what I did to prevent getting my gallbladder removed because I am a big baby. IF you have gallbladder pain please go to your doctors to see if you need surgery to have it removed or what your best option would be.PLEASE do not follow in my footsteps I’m NOT GIVING medical advice this is my story.

I could remember a time when I was young(er) and I didn’t have to worry about eating a piece of cake and gaining 10 pounds and I didn’t have to worry about digestive issues when I was younger I just did not care. This story isn’t about my digestion this story is about how I’m “trying” to heal my gallbladder without surgery.

I think I was in my late teens or early twenties when i experienced my very first gallbladder pain. It was early morning and I woke up with the worst pain I ever felt. I wasn’t home so I called my mom and told her what was happening. My mom told me to drink something carbonated to help me burp. I did that and the pain went away. Later that day mom called me and asked how I was feeling and I told her that I was fine she told me what I felt was gallbladder pain. What I didn’t know my sister suffered from gallbladder pain until she had to get hers removed.

Fast-forward MANY Years I didn’t have any gallbladder pain the pain that I felt many years prior was out of my mind at this point.

During this time I have to say my eating wasn’t the best and I honestly was in a funk. I didn’t care about exercise I didn’t care about eating for health and I sure didn’t care about really anything.

I made what would end up being one of the worst decisions I made at that time and that would be going vegan. This had nothing to do with my gallbladder when I went vegan it messed up my digestive tract which ended up messing with my gallbladder. In a different post, I will discuss the time I went vegan and I thought I was dying but really it was my digestion.

I was with my ex for 10 years and during this time I was vegan (I went vegan for myself) when I wasn’t vegan for support for his diets I went paleo, did the tuna diet, carb cycling, and the caveman diet I’m sure there was more. I had not one gallbladder pain. When the relationship ended I found myself eating the way I felt that was right for me which was gluten-free and vegetarian (I will explain more in the next post.)

For the most part, I was feeling pretty good. I had no pain whatsoever. I went about my life like I did any other day. A couple of more years later and one very early summer morning around 8 am I woke up with the worst gallbladder pain I ever felt and this was my second attack in about 14 years. That morning was some morning. I was in so much pain I thought I was going to vomit and to top it off my new mattress was outside waiting for me to pick it up.

What happened instead was my sister has to bring up an almost 100-pound mattress by herself while I’m trying to figure out how to relieve the pain. I took an Ibuprofen that I had leftover from when I sprained my neck and I was fine. For the rest of the day, I was bloated but not in pain. I had to run to the hardware store and I wore a dress because again I was still very much bloated. I didn't realize that my dress was see-through. I did say it was some morning.

My sister's friends came over and my sister was telling her friends how I had a gallbladder attack and they were like you’re next and I said I refuse to get my gallbladder out. I’m the type that if I can heal without modern medicine I will do it, of course, there have been times when I had to get surgery but if It’s something non-serious I will try to heal naturally. I went about the day and I went almost the whole summer before I had another attack.

At this point, I started removing whatever was causing a gallbladder attack. One morning I woke up in pain and it was because I ate these vanilla sweet crackers right before bed. Once I removed them I was fine. Another time I woke up in pain and It was because I ate sour patch kids before bed. Once I eliminated those two things I was good for a very long time for about 1–1/2 years.

It’s fall of 2020 around November and my dog got sick It came on suddenly and fast. Thank goodness he is fine but last year we didn’t know. During my dog's healing time I was eating like pure hell. I didn’t care what I was eating as long as It satisfied my cravings. Again, I didn’t know If my dog was going to live or not so I was depressed. I didn’t eat real food I just ate sugar, carb-filled foods and drank soda and energy drinks instead of water.

Just a couple of days shy of Thanksgiving I woke up once again early morning with gallbladder pain. I took Ibuprofen and luckily I was able to go back to sleep. Early afternoon I was telling somebody I know what has happened and I told him that I was so close to going to the hospital last night. I realized wh m gallbladder hurt so bad. Like I said earlier I didn’t know If my dog was going to live or not and I was just eating any type of candy or junk food to make me feel better.

For the rest of the year, I was fine I had no gallbladder pain whatsoever. January of this year (2021) I had two attacks back to back and they were so bad that I really got myself ready to go to the hospital but as soon as the pain came they went but this happened twice back to back. I was desperate not to have surgery. I have some people that would tease me about getting my gallbladder out and I said I’m going to change that and I won’t be getting my gallbladder out.

I hope you enjoyed today’s story? I just want to say that please go to the doctor if you are having gallbladder pain. If your gallbladder isn’t functioning properly then all of that bile will pass through your liver and will sit until released. So please don’t follow in my lead.

With that being said thank you for reading and I hope you enjoy your day/night.

I will be posting another part soon!