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Your gallbladder is a small organ below your liver that stores bile, a green-yellow liquid that helps your digestive system. When something is blocking the bile duct, such as a gallstone, pain can ...

Medically reviewed by Robert Burakoff, MD Key Takeaways Indigestion can cause symptoms like stomach upset and pain in the ...

You might not think about your gallbladder often. But if something goes wrong with this small organ, symptoms such as intense pain will likely catch your attention. Gallbladder disease is an umbrella ...

Biliary pancreatitis occurs when gallstones develop in your gallbladder and block the duct that leads through your pancreas to your small intestines. Gallstones develop from hardened pieces of ...

You likely already know that gallstones can be notoriously painful and disproportionately affect women. But if you're wondering what their symptoms look like-and how some can be relatively mild while ...

Below are our archive of questions and answers in Gastroenterology. Question 5/8/2002: Three years ago I had pancreatitis. After recovering, I had my gallbladder removed. Since this time I have ...

The gallbladder stores bile, a digestive fluid. It contracts after emptying as part of the digestive process, but other factors, such as gallstones, can cause it to collapse, leading to pain and other ...

A Redditor who endured months of what they thought was heartburn was shocked to find out it was actually gallstones. For more than a year, the original poster (OP)—Reddit user Sylph_Co—endured chest ...

Dear Dr. Donohue: A couple of months ago, while eating breakfast, I came down with terrible stomach pain. Then I started to throw up. My wife took me to the hospital. They told me I was having a ...