If mild pain in your upper right abdomen lasts more than a few days, schedule an appointment with your doctor. For serious symptoms, seek emergency medical attention.  Serious symptoms include pain that’s so severe you can't sit up or move your stomach, fever, chills, and yellowing of the skin or eyes. If you suspect you have gallbladder issues, you should talk to your doctor before trying to treat it on your own. Tell your doctor about your symptoms, any history of medical issues, and any medications you take. Allow them to take tests, such as blood work and imaging scans. These tests will help the doctor make an accurate diagnosis and come up with the best course of treatment.  While gallstones are a common cause of pain in the upper right abdomen, your symptoms could be related to an infection, bile duct blockage, or other issue. Treatment options for gallstones and bile blockages include surgical removal of the gallbladder, endoscopic (non-surgical) removal of stones, medications that dissolve the stones, and sound wave therapy, which breaks up the stones.  If you have a gallbladder infection, your doctor will prescribe antibiotics. For a severe infection, your gallbladder may have to be removed. If you required surgery, you’ll need to care for the surgical site according to your doctor’s instructions. While you might spend up to a week in the hospital, many people are discharged within a day of surgery.  Following surgery, your doctor might put you on a liquid diet to help your gallbladder rest. For both surgical and non-surgical treatments, you’ll likely need to stick to a low-cholesterol, gallbladder-friendly diet indefinitely. After gallbladder surgery, you might experience more frequent bowel movements and diarrhea. Changes in bowel movements are usually temporary.

Summary: See your doctor for persistent or severe symptoms. Work with your doctor to come up with the right treatment plan. Follow your doctor’s aftercare instructions.


Strive to stay relaxed before and during the ride. This can be achieved by breathing slowly and deeply to maintain a steady heartbeat. You might also try to keep a positive attitude in general, which could include soothing the horse by talking or singing softly to it before riding. Petting a horse before riding as well as during the ride can help keep both horse and rider calm. Petting during the ride has the added bonus of helping keep the rider's hands steady, allowing for greater control of the horse. This control can help calm the animal more quickly in the event of spooking. A good place to pet the horse is on its withers, which is at the tip of the shoulders where the neck and back meet. Simply stroke the fur softly to pet. You can also apply soft pressure with your fingertips or scratch lightly with fingernails. One way to help keep both the horse and rider calm during the ride—thereby minimizing spooking—is to use an application that sets a riding tempo. Acting like a metronome for the ride, the application will set a tempo for each gait, which the rider can speed up or slow down. The rider simply activates the application on a smartphone or mobile device and places it in their pocket during the ride with the volume up loud enough for the horse to hear it. Another way to use this application is to have a friend operate the tempo adjustments with the application hooked into a riding arena's public address system. This is a good way to ensure the horse can hear the beat. You may be startled by your horse's behavior if it gets spooked, but the horse will only experience greater stress if you show stress yourself. This is because your stress indicates to the horse that there is a legitimate threat, even though it is his or her stress to which you may be reacting. In this case, the horse can be more difficult to calm, so you really should remain calm if your horse gets spooked so as to minimize the horse's stress.

Summary: Maintain a relaxed state of mind and body. Pet the horse before and while riding. Use a tempo application. Do not show fear or stress.


Use the entire contents of a box of any flavor dessert gelatin. Jello is just one brand name for dessert gelatin and you can buy different brands at your local supermarket.
Summary: Pour a 3 ounces (85 g) box of gelatin powder into a bowl.