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| Wed, 11-09-2005 - 9:45am |
Hello everyone,
My name is Jennifer and I have been having lots of problems with GERD and eventually nausea and vomiting. I had an ultrasound last week. Got the results back yesterday. They found a polyp on my gallbladder. They say that is more than likely nothing. They also found one of my bile ducts is dialated. I will need further investigation as to why it is dialated. Could be a stone, maybe?
I am scheduled for an upper endoscopy on the 21st of November too. I'm on Prevacid and prescription Zantac. That combo seems to help the heartburn a bit. My biggest problem right now is lack of appitite and on and off nausea. It really stinks!!!! Plus I have a dull ache near my right shoulder blade that I presume to be from the dialated bile duct.
I hate having to sit and wait two weeks before I even get some real answers and even longer for some possible relief. I don't sleep well at night, I'm uncomfortable. I just don't like this one bit and I am nervous.
Any words of advice out there?

Hi Jennifer!
Hi
Yes, unfortunately I am stressed over this. And it doesn't help that I'm currently suffering from anxiety right now too. I just started Zoloft a couple of weeks ago to help with the anxiety and it seems that just after having begun Zoloft I started feeling nauseas all the time. Thought it could be the Zoloft but yet at this same time I had been dealing with Acid Reflux. Whenever I would vomit my chest would feel like someone lit a match in there. It was horrible!!!! So for the past two weeks I've been plagued with heartburn and nausea. Especially in the wee hours of the morning. Oh am I nauseous then and it's no fun. Reminds me of morning sickness but I'm definitely not pregnant.
Now the past couple of days I wake up with an upset stomach and end up on the toilet two or three times...again wayyyy early in the morning. And I feel the pain under my right ribs and back around to my right shoulder blade off and on. And sometimes that feeling migrates down into my intestines and it just doesn't feel good at all.
I know I'm doing the right things by seeing a GI but in the meantime I just wish I could avoid that nauseas feeling. It's the worst and I have to get three kids up and ready for school all the while feeling like I could vomit. Every morning.
My appitite is slightly on the increase though. Infact, for the first time yesterday afteernoon I actually started craving things that I really can't have. (high fatty stuff). I did break down and ate two small slices of pizza to satisfy that craving. And it seemed to go down well. I had no problems, that is, until this morning. :( I'm just sick of the bland diet I've been adhering to.
And anyone ever been told they have a dilated bile duct but no obvious signs of a stone? I just wonder why mine is dilated and if that is what is causing me to feel this way.
Jennifer
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