For me, my pain was for years. It was a sharp pain starting on the upper right side of my abdomen right underneath the rib cage. Felt as if someone stabbed the area or the pain you would imagine of someone poking your organs. After that constant sharp pain for 2-3hrs it would then become a radiating pain that would also hurt same area but in the back side. Only way to minimize pain was to stay in fetal position or put a lot of pressure into it, but then at times that didn’t work. Tylenol/Advil just never did it for me. The weird thing for me is that I never linked it to a food, it just happened about every 4months and would start as a small uncomfortable pain in the evening and increase in pain throughout the night, and by morning it’ll be gone as if nothing happened. This would happens for 1-3days. For years I would go to docs and they could never diagnose the pain, they ran blood work, ultrasounds, X-rays, and endoscopy but nothing would show up. GIs would say the same thing. It wasn’t until a few months ago that a GI recommended to do a random lucky scan called HAIDA scan, which they inject radioactive liquid to mimic bile fluid and see how the gallbladder functions. Through it they discovered that the gallbladder wasn’t functioning and that I was experiencing pains similar to gallstones without having gallstones, which is a very very rare case. So they recommended to removed it and so I did. Can’t say the pain is gone yet since originally the pain came every 4mo but let’s hope that was the problem to the pain.