It's nice having a Dr here, NOT for any medical advise, but someone that can relate to what we are going through without think she is Mental. In the beginning we had an ER nurse tell us that they had exhausted all the PHYSICAL avenues and would need to delve into the mental. This is when she was having upper chest area pains. Two weeks later she HAD to have her gall bladder removed because it was about to burst. Was full of several 1 inch stones and numerous other smaller ones.
That sounds like what happened to my mother. She was told repeatedly in the ED it was heartburn, but a gallbladder scan, which is neither expensive, difficult, nor hazardous proved otherwise. She didn't want to hear she had a lot of gall, but she certainly was pleased to be rid of her colicy pain episodes!
