The Amalfi Coast, south of Naples, is still a magnet for wealthy Russians and romantic Americans. Yet Naples itself is a tourist wasteland, and the rest of southern Italy is largely vacationer-free. Only 13 percent of tourists who come to Italy go to the Mezzogiorno, as the south is known.
Depending on where a stone blocks the flow of bile, symptoms can include nausea, vomiting, fever, and severe abdominal pain that lasts longer than 6 hours. If you have these symptoms, you may need surgery to remove your gallbladder or the gallstone causing the blockage.
Gallstones may cause no signs or symptoms. If a gallstone lodges in a duct and causes a blockage, signs and symptoms may result, such as: 1  Sudden and rapidly intensifying pain in the upper right portion of your abdomen. 2  Sudden and rapidly intensifying pain in the center of your abdomen, just below your breastbone.3  Back pain between your shoulder blades.f a gallstone lodges in a duct and causes a blockage, signs and symptoms may result, such as: 1  Sudden and rapidly intensifying pain in the upper right portion of your abdomen. 2  Sudden and rapidly intensifying pain in the center of your abdomen, just below your breastbone. 3  Back pain between your shoulder blades.