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Chronic Pain | Last Active: Aug 25 8:48am | Replies (20)

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Is the pain on the side of where your liver is and under your rib cage?

Did your gastroenterologist do a HIDA scan to check gallbladder function? This test has your gallbladder tested to see how it ejects bile after a fatty meal. Normal is a minimum of 35-40%. Mine was only 7%. They recommended getting my gallbladder out but I have held off due to other surgeries plus l have tried to cut back of fatty foods and larger meals and that has helped reduce symptoms.

You may also want to ask to have a MRI of your abdomen to see soft tissue inflammation (ct scan won’t really show this).

One last thought is to see if you have any circulation or nerve compression causing these symptoms. Did they do a full ultrasound of your abdomen? MRI may show something, too.

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Thye did check my gallbladder and that is fine. I had a full ultrasound and found nothing. I cannot get a MRI due to being clostrafobic.
Thanks!