What is the discomfort of having gallbladder stones?

  With the increasing awareness of health care, medical checkups are becoming more and more common, and many patients with gallbladder stones are being “detected”. Many patients have questions, “I used to have stomach pains, why was gallbladder stone detected? What are the usual symptoms that should be considered as possible gallbladder stones?  In fact, gallbladder stones have a variety of symptoms, some of which are not typical. Usually, if a patient has pain in the upper abdomen, especially in the right upper abdomen or under the glabella, gallbladder stones should be considered. These atypical symptoms often mislead patients (or doctors) to treat it as a heart disease or a stomach disease, and many tests are done without finding the cause.  However, in general, there is a certain pattern to the pain caused by gallbladder stones: this type of pain is usually induced after eating a fatty meal, and the pain is relatively long and may last more than 20 minutes. In some patients, gallbladder stones are not detected when they are still small, but only when they have grown very large and caused more serious consequences. In some patients, at the beginning of the disease, the stones are small and easily stuck in the neck of the gallbladder and the gallbladder duct. This is because the gallbladder stones continue to grow (medium size) and do not easily get stuck in the neck of the gallbladder.  When the stones increase in size, they are more likely to cause adverse consequences. Therefore, if you find a suspected gallbladder discomfort, you should seek early medical attention, early detection and early treatment, do not wait until a small disease becomes a major disease, then the effect of medical treatment will be much worse.