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Rarer side effects include acute gallstone disease and pancreatitis, and the NHS warns that there is also a risk of hypoglycaemia, which happens when your blood sugar level drops too low.

Public Services Ombudsman for Wales, Michelle Morris, said the failure to identify Mrs K’s gallstones in January 2021 was "an unacceptable service failure which caused Mrs K and her family a continued and grave injustice".

Cynthia Esguerra, 66, has had to choose between food or medicine for her high cholesterol, gallstones and urinary issues.

Some taking the drugs see potentially serious side effects like gallstones and inflammation of the pancreas.

By morning, the man was feeling better — the jammed gallstone must have gotten loose and moved on.