Gallstones

Anyone have experience with gallstones?

Reason I am asking is because this is the second time in the past month that I have had a sudden onset of pain in my abdomen. As you can well imagine, it seriously concerns me. But the baby moves as normal and nothing seems wrong in that regard...just a stabbing,burning,aching pain across my chest (under my breasts), down the right side and on and under my belly button. It's tender. The pain comes and goes in severity. Last night I was just sitting there when suddenly I was like OH MY GOD and practically doubled over. It was on and off like that for a few hours, lessened when I went to bed but is back again full force this morning, after eating a bagel and cream cheese.

Last time, I had this, I saw my ob thinking it was something to do with the pregnancy. He felt where my appendix is and that isn't where the pain is...it's more inward rather than on my side. The pain also radiates to my back on the right side. The doc said it was a pulled muscle/ligament due to my growing belly. I had to get a maternity support belt and have been wearing it for the last 2-3 weeks. At first, when I got it, it took a few days for the pain to completely go away.


Now, I feel sick to my stomach after eating (new symptom).

I am not constipated. It's not gas (that would be down the left side, not the right). It's not heartburn, this is different (I am all to familiar with heartburn, acid reflux).

I did some searching around and found that many people with gallstones have the same symptoms as I do. And being pregnant can put you at greater risk for gallstones.

Is anyone familiar with gallstones? I hate self diagnosis but I also hate going to the doctor and having to go through 55 different rounds of tests before hitting on the one thing I thought might be the problem in the first place. I like to suggest things so that doc can either say "no way" or "it's possible". Doctors aren't perfect ya know.