Gallbladder Colic

It strikes you like a knife thrust. The pain sits beneath the right rib arch, bores into the upper abdomen, radiates into the back, into the shoulder, sometimes into the chest. It comes in waves — intense, breathtaking, relentless. Your body doubles over, searches for a position that is bearable, and finds none. Nausea, cold sweat, the feeling of being crushed from inside.

Medically, a gallbladder colic occurs when a gallstone blocks the bile duct. The duct cramps, tries to force the stone through — and this struggle produces the pain. But the psychosomatic question goes deeper: What has accumulated and condensed so long inside you that your system is now literally blocked? What is it that can no longer flow?

Gallbladder colic is not ordinary abdominal pain. It is the moment when something inside you explodes — something you have kept imprisoned far too long.