My mother has gallstone, shes 37 years old and shes been doing well. The doctor put her on a diet, no fried food, or fatty foods. This includes no oil, but unfortunately someone gave her oil, now shes in pain and she says it feels like shes getting stabbed in the stomach. We would go to the hospital but her doctor is out of town and hes the only one who has her medical records, if we go to the hospital we might be running a heavy risk at the doctors not having any idea what to do with her due to lack of information. Weve given her some lemons in water to break up the oil. She cannot take her pain killers for another three hours. But is there something else that we can do?
Hello and thank you for asking Chat Doctor. I have read the symptoms of your mother and I understand your concerns. It seems she has a biliary colic, or worse even pancreatitis. No one can be sure for the diagnosis without tests. Usually the pain disappears in a few hours, but if the pain is prolonged, and she has other symptoms like nausea, vomiting, fever than probably she has cholecystitis (infection of the gallbladder) In this case she needs to check up at the hospital to do some tests.-ultrasound of her abdomen (to check the walls of the gallbladder, biliary ducts, pancreas etc)-blood tests (to check the white blood cells for presence of infection, liver enzymes, pancreas enzymes)-a consult with a surgeon. It doesn't matter that her personal doctor is out of tows. The other doctors will do the tests and will know what to do once they have a diagnosis. If you have any other question, feel free to ask me. Chat Doctor. 