He administers tests, then gives you the grim verdict soon after. You have gallstones -- or hardened deposits of digestive fluid, or bile.
Chances are, your doctor will tell you he saw a high level of cholesterol in your bile, which is found in your gallbladder. Hardened bile leads to gallstones.
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases points to high cholesterol as the culprit behind a whopping 80 percent of gallstones. These gallstones, in turn, cause gallbladder inflammation, which your body reacts to by telling you it feels pain and nausea. Other patients throw up.
Your doctor will tell you what kind of stones are in your gallbladder. The most common are cholesterol gallstones, which are made up mostly of undissolved cholesterol from a diet rich in saturated fat. Pigment gallstones, on the other hand, form when the bile has excess bilirubin, a compound formed in the liver, which can lead to jaundice.
All these have to be corrected, fast, before it does more damage. But some gallstone sufferers turn to synthetic drugs, which could hurt some of the body's vital organs and do more harm than good.
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