I assume a white count was taken?
If it is elevated, then there could be an infection there.
The duct can be blocked by stones/sludge.
There are things that help bile flow better...doctors don't know about them as rule.
1) Taurine-- this is an amino acid and can help
2) Yerba Mate tea, is choleretic..and really helped me with this.
Gall bladders can be malformed at birth, or twisted. ( I had a friend who had this twist..they had a hard time finding it and removing it.)
And yes it can rupture. Some drugs can cause further spasms of the duct,
called the sphincter of Oddi. Narcotics typically can do this.
Quote:
J Clin Gastroenterol. 1985 Dec;7(6):528-32. Links
Ultrasound in the diagnosis of sphincter of Oddi spasm.
* Berezny GM,
* Beck IT,
* DaCosta LR,
* O'Brien PG,
* Paloschi GB.
Biliary colic from spasm of the sphincter of Oddi has been a difficult diagnosis to prove. We describe a patient in whom the diagnosis was arrived at using a pharmacological provocative test employing codeine to reproduce pain and a change in liver and pancreatic serum enzymes, and ultrasound to demonstrate a transient increase in common bile duct diameter. Testing carried out before surgical sphincteroplasty reproduced symptoms, and brought about marked pancreatic and liver enzyme elevation and an increase in common bile duct diameter measured by ultrasound (0.4 to 1.0 cm). Such events did not occur after sphincteroplasty. This case study suggests that codeine may be a useful provocative agent and that ultrasound measurements of changes in common bile duct diameter may provide a useful method in the diagnostic approach to Sphincter of Oddi Spasm.
PMID: 3910712 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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Anticholinergics like Levsin can relax it, as well as a heating pad.
This is a pretty good website with suggestions:
http://www.liverdoctor.com/Section4/gallbladder.asp
I would NOT do any flushes, without asking your doctor, however, since
this diagnosis is still pending..and treatments unknown.
The food suggestions are useful however.
I hope now that you know the culprit, a solution can be found!
Hang in there!
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