Exercise triggered gallbladder pain stones management options

Hoping it's just that calcium pill from the other day. Trouble shows up mostly on big deficit days. Happened on a walk yesterday and pops up now and then with mostly liquid meals, but it hit again today so I switched to a rich meal loaded with healthy fats. Skipping the calcium from now on and will check back if anything gallbladder-related shows up. On your question, I'll watch the deficit more but I'm not lowering the dose. Not doing this for health reasons, just want the weight off. Aiming for three pounds a week. For the record, six foot, started at 236, week seven on reta, 2.33 mg weekly at first then up to 4.66 mg after week four.

Can't be totally sure but I think I've had that same gallbladder ache off and on for years, just way less often than lately. Might be mixing it up with precordial catch or liver pain, but the feeling isn't new.

Three pounds a week is a lot over time. Anything past about two pounds steadily seems to invite gallbladder trouble. Biggest drop came early for me then it leveled out.

Sorry to hear that, and it can be tough to pin down with the history you described. My daughter has been dodging surgery, using malic acid and staying on top of hydration since she's in nursing school and they'd hold her back if she had the operation. She also started a food journal to link pain with what she ate. The ache didn't really change after stopping the shots so she restarted. She thinks the pain got worse off the meds because the food noise returned and she ate more of the wrong stuff.

Solid info. Might add magnesium malate. Thanks for the sympathy but it's not needed. My body is a temple, just one of those Thai ones where monkeys leave messes everywhere. This is probably the healthiest I've been since seventeen, and I'm twenty-seven now.

My kiddo says it felt worse without the meds.

Starting at 336 probably helps. I'm on week twenty-one dropping 2.7 pounds a week from 282.

We all want fast results but dropping too quick can cause real harm. My sister had hers removed. I'm fine after fifty-two weeks and fifty-two pounds off. Look after yourself, you still need those organs.

From that reply I can tell you'll be okay. Reminded me of something. About six months back I apologized to my body for not loving it as it was, for not appreciating what it had been through, all the stuff I'd put it through trying to measure up. Another upside of the food noise quieting is I'm actually here in the moment more than before. Like to think I'm the personality she should have had years ago.

Holy shit LOL, typo. Started at 236. Highest was probably 260 and hovered around 240 for a couple years. Nice work on the loss, must feel good to be where you are. Already feel better myself but I'll be happier looks-wise once I'm under 200.

I know my options are limited to what's feasible at any point. It wasn't possible before, but now it is. I got the most out of the situation back then, and I'm going to do the same again, only with better results this time.

Progress is good but still three or four months from target. Not very emotional about it, kind of surprised it's going this smoothly. Three pounds at 240 is 1.25 percent, more aggressive than the one percent plan I set for myself give or take a tenth.

True but what stood out was seeing no posts about ongoing pain, just stories of pain one day then removal. Hoping to be the exception people find in this thread later. Probably nutrition plus the fast drop. Also got pain on days with junk like brownies plus liquid protein while holding a seven-hundred-plus deficit.

If you're dropping 3.6 pounds weekly after the first water weight, the daily deficit is probably closer to seventeen hundred calories than seven hundred.

Could be. I tend to overcount what I eat, aim for fifteen hundred and rarely go past two thousand. TDEE should be around three thousand. Heaviest day on reta was about twenty-six hundred but probably closer to twenty-four hundred the way I log.

Pain sits about five inches below the right nipple and an inch lower when sitting upright, right at the bottom of the lowest rib. Almost only during effort and mostly on tight deficits or after lopsided meals like brownies and fat-free milk protein shakes. While running a sharp pain builds in that spot and grows with more effort, like precordial catch but shifted. If it lasts too long breathing starts to hurt too. Stopping exercise keeps it from worsening and it fades in fifteen to thirty minutes. Feeling movement there isn't unheard of. Only noticed it those two times, both while still, and it was right where the pain hits, far from gas, stomach, heartburn or palpitations.

Interesting. At minimum get liver function tests and a right upper quadrant ultrasound if you haven't. Both are low impact and useful. One of my friends had something similar for years and ended up diagnosed with slipping rib syndrome that needed surgery.

As long as you're clear-eyed about it, go for it. Hope you keep the gallbladder, zero out of ten on wanting to lose mine.

I'm in America. Walking into a doctor's office means money out of pocket I don't have. Private labs exist but cost a hundred bucks I can use elsewhere. Joking aside, thanks for the info. Slipped rib doesn't match what I'm feeling. The two movement sensations were almost pleasant, no pain, happened while sitting still. Spot feels too high for liver anyway.

Not quite. Omega-3s are actually used to help gallbladder problems. Some fat is needed for the organ to work and pork fat is likely rougher than salmon. Oddly the opposite approach seems to help. After an episode I ate a fatty meal, took vitamin D, waited, then could exercise hard with no issue. Same today after a decent fatty meal beforehand. Whey shakes look like the trigger. Testing that tomorrow. Attacks only hit when the day starts with whey or whey plus browned-butter brownies. Might be wrong but that's what I'm sensing. Should know for sure this week.

Problem seems handled or at least pushed down the road. Maybe this helps your daughter too. Did a refeed week eating near maintenance, skipped hard workouts, dropped the calcium, took K2 with D3, added three milligrams boron daily, increased psyllium. Taurine probably helped most. Started it for evening support but even normal doses made me run to the bathroom within five minutes on a full stomach, rumbling and loose for an hour. Not typical for taurine in healthy people. Turns out it pushes the gallbladder to release bile acids and that hits hard when the gallbladder is off. So I kept

You should have tried taurine sooner.

Crap, I'm two out of three on that list, three if you count foolish. Scary given how many times I've lost twenty to twenty-five kilos in a month.

That was actually bowel obstruction from scar tissue after weight loss surgery. Ozempic can make one in a thousand people go blind, which is pretty funny.

Interesting point. Thanks for setting that straight.

Pretty useless organ anyway. Maybe the surgeon would knock something off the bill if they took the appendix while they were in there.

Guess you heard it here first then. You're welcome.

Not my style. I get those too and this feels different. It could definitely get worse if I kept going. Who knows for sure though. The pain lines up with what others describe on very low calorie days, so while waiting on a doctor I might try taurine, psyllium husk, and dropping extra calcium. After checking side stitches more, the kind of pain I'm having usually sends people in for a gallbladder check anyway. I'll sort it out once insurance kicks in and stick with taurine until then.

You started this thread right when my own gallbladder flared again. I already knew I had a stone from an ultrasound years ago, before any weight loss meds. Occasional flare ups were manageable by skipping high fat foods, so removal never seemed urgent. On sema then tirz and now reta I stayed fine because I avoided the trigger foods. Then a two week trip walking everywhere in Europe brought the pain back after a couple hours on my feet. It eased once I lay down and didn't wreck my sleep the way food triggers used to. Next day it returned after more walking, so it really seemed tied to the movement. My own guess after searching was that gravity might be shifting the stone around.