Symptoms of chronic cholecystitis include abdominal pain, indigestion, nausea and excess belching.
Most people suffering from a gallbladder attack often complain about nausea, gas, belching, and bloating, but it might be difficult to distinguish those symptoms.
When there is a problem with getting bile into the intestine after a fatty meal, patients can experience gallbladder symptoms such as bloating, belching, fullness, nausea, and vomiting related to having undigested fats in the intestine.
Symptoms of chronic gallbladder disease include complaints of gas, nausea and abdominal discomfort after meals and chronic diarrhea.
Occasionally, people will experience unusual symptoms such as heartburn, chest pain, indigestion, bloating, nausea or diarrhea. These symptoms can occur by themselves or in combination. If you are experiencing these symptoms it may be a diseased gallbladder contributing.
Pain in the mid- to upper-right section of your abdomen is the most common sign that there is a problem with your gallbladder. The pain can be mild to severe, and can sometimes be felt in other areas of the body, like the back and chest.
Dyspeptic symptoms of indigestion, belching, bloating, abdominal discomfort, heartburn and specific food intolerance are common in persons with gallstones, but are probably unrelated to the stones themselves and frequently persist after surgery.
Gallbladder pain feels different than any other kind of pain you've ever felt in your abdomen. You may feel a sudden, sharp pain in your upper right abdomen. It may feel like someone is cutting you with a knife. The pain is constant and severe.
Due to bile duct stones, pancreatitis, or pancreatic cancer, insufficiency of the pancreas can lead to an inability to digest food adequately, leading to food intolerances and malabsorption. As a result of the bacterial consumption of the nutrients, excessive belching may occur.
Most belching is caused by swallowing excess air. This air most often never even reaches the stomach but accumulates in the esophagus. You may swallow excess air if you eat or drink too fast, talk while you eat, chew gum, suck on hard candies, drink carbonated beverages, or smoke.
Gallstones can cause sudden, severe abdominal pain that usually lasts 1 to 5 hours (although it can sometimes last just a few minutes). The pain can be felt: in the centre of your abdomen (tummy) just under the ribs on your right-hand side – it may spread from here to your side or shoulder blade.
The most common symptoms of GERD are heartburn and acid reflux, while in gallbladder disease, the pain is typically on the right side and may radiate to the shoulder.
Gallbladder related symptoms may overlap with acid reflux symptoms like bloating, maldigestion, and abdominal pain. Sore throat, difficulty swallowing, heartburn and food regurgitation are classic acid reflux symptoms and highly indicative of GERD.
Abdominal ultrasound: This test uses sound waves to examine the gallbladder and the bile ducts. It helps identify signs of inflammation in your gallbladder, the presence of gallstones, and thickening or swelling of the gallbladder wall.
Unlike gas pain, gallbladder pain is not relieved by changing position, burping, or passing gas.
Gallstones don't usually cause any symptoms. But if a gallstone blocks one of the bile ducts, it can cause sudden, severe abdominal pain, known as biliary colic. Other symptoms may develop if the blockage is more severe or develops in another part of the digestive system.
It is often associated with bloating. In fact, bloating and fullness are common symptoms that may be related to gallstones and unassociated with pain. However, bloating and fullness may occur for other reasons. If that is the case, treatment of the gallstones will not lead to relief of the symptoms.
The five Fs were a mnemonic device that healthcare providers used in the past to memorize common risk factors for gallbladder disease. The five Fs were: fair, female, fat, fertile and 40. They were based on statistics, but they are controversial today because they add up to a kind of stereotype.
Biliary colic is often known as a gallbladder or gallstone attack. This is because it can repeatedly happen every time a gallstone blocks a bile duct. Pain will go away if the gallstone is no longer blocking the bile duct. There can be weeks or months between episodes of biliary colic.