stomach aches/pain postpartum 7 weeks

i started having stomach aches in the middle of the night sometimes accompanied with nausea and attributed it to taking my prenatal vitamin with iron before bed and maybe not enough food in my stomach. now i'm having them in the daytime and i ate a couple of hours ago. i'm 7 weeks postpartum. is this serious?

Hey! I am having the exact same signs and symptoms and also out 7 weeks, what did you find out?!?


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Hi....

I had the same night time pain(it was really severe) accompanied with nausea about 3 weeks postpartum. Thought it was due to some food issue or heart burn and had taken tum, etc and felt better after 4-5 hours.

Then when the same thing happened about 5 1/2 weeks postpartum the pain was so severe that I had to rush to the emergency. Doctors diagnosed that it's inflamed gall bladder and also gall stones in the gall bladder. The pain and nausea, they said, where due to one of the stones being stuck in the bile duct. They recommended that the gall bladder be removed - it's not absolutely necessary for normal functioning of a human being and only stores some amount of bile juice and removal might cause diarrhea for a few weeks after surgery due to the excess bile juice in the intestines. We went ahead with the laproscopic surgery and I recovered within 10 days.

I would also like to mention that this kind of gall bladder stones are common postpartum because of the hormonal changes and prenatal medications - excess calcium forms into stones when not enough fluids are taken when consuming prenatal.

So I would recommend that you go to a doctor immediately and get it checked. It's worth rather that go through the really worse pains.

Best wishes...

I'm almost 6 weeks postpartum, and I've started having lower stomach pain. I took a Tums a little while ago, thinking that it might be gas. My pain seems to be worse sitting down rather than standing or walking. Is this consistent with an infection? I don't remember this with my other children.