Glad you went to the doctor. The pain is really like nothing else is it.
I had a gallbladder attack when on Cambridge, then nothing for months, then another, then fine, then another. The attacks got closer and closer together and in the end virtually everything was setting it off (not on Cambridge by then).
After the first one, I came off the diet until I could speak coherently with the consultant (gotta love the morphine
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So, I was off it for 3 weeks. The consultant didn't blame the diet though it could be considered a side effect as it is with any diet that reduces calories to this level. He said that the problem was very common with ladies and he wasn't aware of any of them doing a VLCD.
He was happy for me to go back to the diet saying it would be easier for him to operate when I was at goal.
Anyway, I put off having the op, hoping that it would disappear on its own. A senior nurse friend then told me that it wasn't going to happen. It would keep returning until I'd have the op, so decided to go for it.
When I was in the ward, I talked to the others who were having the same thing. Not one of them had ever done a VLCD. There was a mix of SWers, WWers and non dieters, so perhaps VLCDs may bring it forward to a certain extent. Maybe if we are likely to have it in the future, it happens earlier IYKWIM.
I think in the medical world, the jury is still out whether the diet causes the problem.
My gallbladder is a gonna, and I'm so pleased that I went for the op.