I lived with the pain of gall stones for over 6 years coming an going at odd times. After the fact realizing it was my fatty diet that was causing this. The problem of diagnoses was that I didn't have any of the indicators: Forty, Fatty, or Female. The Drs. always prescribed acid-reflux medicine. I finally new I was in for it when the sonagram tech said, "Oh my!". after that it was morphine and then surgery. Good luck. Oh and now you get to fix all those healthy meals that you've been telling him he needs to start eating.