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It's because the trapped gas puts pressure on nerves that radiate to the shoulder.
But not nerves that go to other places? Is there something specific about those nerves?
It's similar to how men often feel pain down the left arm with heart damage. The theory is that in utero, as we develop, the tissues that the nerves going to your gall bladder area and your shoulder may have started as the same batch of tissue. As you develop things branch off and move away from the starting point in different directions. But your brain still has a little bit of holdover from when the structures were the same clump of cells.
Gall bladder can refer pain to the right shoulder sometimes. Is that the side you had symptoms on?
Interesting. Thanks for the explanation. My case was unusual. I had no pain... I've gone into it elsewhere in the thread and I don't want to annoy people by repeating it over and over again, but suffice it to say, I didn't have the typical symptoms of someone with gallbladder issues.