Gallbladder Attack: Understanding the Symptoms and Causes

The gallbladder is a small, pear-shaped, pouch-like organ located right under your liver for bile, a liquid that aids digestion.

What Are Gallbladder Attacks?

A gallbladder attack can result in abrupt and excruciating pain. The signs and symptoms that make up an attack are brought on when bile cannot enter or exit your gallbladder. An excessive amount of bile results in an inflamed and painful gallbladder. An attack of the gallbladder can cause pain in your right shoulder, upper right or middle of your abdomen, back between your shoulder blades, or right shoulder. Another possibility is nausea or vomiting. The pain often lasts between 20 and 60 minutes.

The other symptoms include jaundice. The skin and the whites of your eyes turn yellow. Moreover, the patient may experience chills, a fever, tea-colored urine, or light-colored poop.

What causes Gallbladder Attacks?

Gallstones are one of the most common causes of gallbladder attacks. Gallstones are usually formed due to the overaccumulation of cholesterol in the bile. Too much cholesterol in the bile crystallizes to form stones. These could be as small as a grain of sand or as big as a golf ball. However, these stones do not present any health risks unless they get lodged in your bile ducts and prevent bile from exiting.

The other factors are cholecystitis (gallbladder inflammation and redness), tumors, abscesses, sclerosing cholangitis (bile duct or gallbladder scarring), abnormal tissue growth, or severe acalculous gallbladder disease, which restricts your gallbladder from moving the way it should clear.

Obesity and high intakes of refined carbohydrates and calories also put you at risk of a gallbladder attack. Men and women, ages 60 and older, are at equal risk of an attack, but women between the ages of 20 and 60 pose a higher risk due to the extra estrogen in their bodies from pregnancy, hormone replacement therapy, or birth control pills.

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Migraine is a complex neurobiological disorder that affects over a billion people worldwide. This makes it the third-most common illness in the world. Because people cannot see an attack, it is an invisible disease, leading to misconceptions and stigmas, and it is frequently dismissed as "just a headache." In fact, according to the World Health Organization's global burden of disease study, migraine is the sixth most disabling condition on the planet.

When a migraine strikes, it can be difficult to continue with work or family life. Even simple things can become a reason for serious concern or stress. Will you be able to join your friends on an outing? Will an attack occur during your big work presentation? It disrupts the basic joys of life.

Migraine is largely genetic, and while there are triggers that can cause an attack, they are not the cause of the disease. One patient can have multiple "types," even within the same attack. It can be very difficult to distinguish between different migraine types. Understanding the types will help you better understand migraine disease and ensure that you receive the best, most effective treatments.

- Migraine with Aura

-Migraine without Aura

-Hemiplegic Migraine

-Cervicogenic Headache*

-Retinal Migraine

-Silent Migraine

-Vestibular Migraine

-Hormonal Migraine

-Abdominal Migraine

There are effective treatment options available to relieve attacks, as well as prevention methods to reduce the frequency and severity of migraine attacks. Anyone who hasn't found a way to prevent migraines should take advantage of the available treatment, as the medication works best when taken early in the attack.

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