Do gallstones hurt?

Gallstones may be very painful or may not present any painful symptoms. As the most common benign disease of the hepatobiliary system, gallstones are mainly due to an imbalance in the dissolution of bile acids and cholesterol, forming cholesterol crystals that interact with nucleation factors to form dense stones. Clinically, gallstones are classified into stationary stones and symptomatic gallstones according to their symptoms. The so-called stationary stones are those without any symptoms, the patient does not have any abdominal pain symptoms, only the physical examination inadvertently found stones in the gallbladder, this can be called stationary stones. Chronic cholecystitis is usually caused by acute inflammation of the gallbladder mucosa caused by gallbladder stones, so the pain is generally mild, manifesting as vague pain and discomfort in the right upper abdomen, while acute cholecystitis is usually caused by infectious disease caused by gallbladder stones abrading the gallbladder mucosa and secondary bacterial infection, so the pain is very intense, which is clinically very graphically compared to Tossing and turning and difficulty sleeping. Therefore, gallstones can be very painful or asymptomatic.