With millions of people being diagnosed with digestive problems each year it is important to understand the difference between gallbladder disease and gallbladder dysfunction.
Early stages of gallbladder symptoms are often ignored or explained away as something else. Symptoms like
- belching
- uncomfortable fullness
- gas and nausea after eating
- pain under the right rib cage
are often explained away and blamed on eating something that didn’t agree with you or too much stress.
Normal Lab Results?
You may be one of the thousands of people with these early signs who go to see their medical doctor. If you have had an ultrasound and heard that “everything is normal” it is important to understand what that means.
It only means you are not in a state of disease. Medical doctors look for gallbladders that are so full of stones they can’t function – then you are a candidate for surgery. But long before then your gallbladder can be malfunctioning.
And it doesn’t show up on an ultrasound.
In the early stages these symptoms can be easily turned around by changes in diet, taking a digestive enzyme and maybe some lifestyle changes around timing of meals. Dr. Marina Rose provides holistic health care advice to people in and around the city of San Jose, CA and across the United States.
Dr Andrew Weil, a natural medicine pioneer, also advocates the use of natural ways to relieve symptoms.
Click here to take Dr. Rose’s Nutritional Profile Quiz and get an overview of what your nutritional imbalances could be. You’ll get your results immediately.