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Advice on abdominal pains
A Hepatobiliary Iminodiacetic Acid Scan or HIDA scan, also known as cholescintigraphy, is usually done to determine whether there is a problem with the gall bladder. Since your doctor recommended that you have this test done, there is obviously a suspicion that your abdominal pains are due to a gall bladder problem — gall stones, infection of the bladder, or some other condition. Other symptoms of gall bladder problems include nausea, indigestion, and constipation.
If you have been experiencing these symptoms in addition to the abdominal pain, there is a high chance that the problem is indeed with your gall bladder. In any case, since the test has already been done, you will find out soon enough.
The CCK that you say you were given for your scan was cholecystokinin.
This is a hormone that is naturally produced by the digestive system to help with digestion, and is also given before performing HIDA scans, in order to observe how the gallbladder functions in response to it. A common result is abdominal cramps and nausea, but patients usually experience the same kind of pain that led them to visit a doctor in the first place. In your case, as you have said, the result was horrible pain in the right side of your abdomen.
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