Q: how come every time i eat taco bell's tacos my stomach hurts so much for like an hour? what the fork i should sue them or something. what's happening? is it the beef or somethin?
A: You probably have a gallbladder stone. When you eat fatty foods, your gallbladder squirts bile (acid) into your stomach to break it down enough to be blood-soluble. Because of the anatomy of the two organs, sometimes fat slides down into the ducts of the gallbladder. It can collect there if it is not pushed out, and form solid chunks that stay there. When the gallbladder tries to push bile out past these 'stones,' the pressure causes pain. Taco Bell beef is extremely fatty. You need to eat fat with animal protein, because bile is also the only thing that breaks down animal protein, and bile production is not stimulated by protein alone. The reason that you experience more pain with Taco Bell in particular is that there is so much concentrated fat that your bile production is more than usual. Tell your doctor about this. It will help if you do a test first; eat nothing for a couple hours, then eat something (not Taco Bell) extremely fatty, like a big hunk of soft cheese. I bet you'll get the same result, and you will be able to tell your doctor what's up. Bile duct stones can often be stimulated to eject with non-invasive methods, and if those fail, the surgery to remove them is relatively painless.