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The little bastids move around ... you get pain when one manages to lodge itself into the duct through which the bile passes into the stomach. Bile is the happy body fluid that helps you digest fat.
Soooo ... every time your stomach identifies fat, it notifies the gall bladder, which gets the bile from the liver. The whole system grinds to a halt when there's a stone in the way ... Bile has no place to go, backs up ... and OUCH.
The symptoms are similar to those of a heart attack.
After a short while you figure out that you aren't going to die.
But you WANT to.
This is how I have spent most of the last two weeks.
If I knew that gravity would be my friend in this situation, yes, I would have been more than willing to stand on my head for extended periods of time.
I did attempt several different arrangements of pillows in an attempt to have my ass higher than my head for sleeping. Didn't help.
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