How can you tell the difference between pain in the gallbladder or pain in the liver?

Answer 1

I suffer pain on the right side after drinking occasionally. I was told that the liver is not capable of emiting pain, unlike the gallbladder.

I read that a way to reduce the pain of a gallbladder attack was to eat a raw cucumber. In despiration one day, I ate an entire cucumber, and I have to admit that the pain was reduced remarkably. So that also made me feel I was on the right track with diagnosing this problem. I have no medical insurance and cannot afford expensive medical tests.

Also apparently if your liver were giving you problems you would have other symptoms like yellowing skin, dark stools, etc.

These are all just things that I have read, not medical facts, but after reading it, I was relieved to believe that it is just most likely a gallbladder acting up, and not something more serious.

Answer 2

Technically your liver contains no nerve cells, so cannot hurt. However there is a protective membrane around the liver than does contain nerve cells so can hurt. Gall bladder pain feels exactly the same as liver pain, however you can also get liver pain on your left side the the abdomen (due to additional pressure on the spleen, normally). This does not normally happen with gall bladder pain. You can also get "referred" liver pain in your left shoulder.

Answer 3

it is really hard to tell without proper medical assistance and either one should be brought to you physicians attention but liver pain has a "refereed" pain as the "cold shoulder" (the left one)

Answer 4

Your stomach is located on the left side of your body where as your liver is on the right