Dear Fellow Flushers
I have been a silent watcher of this site for many weeks now and would like to say first of all how very much I've appreciated reading all the helpful messages, testimonials, advice and so on. I read about Liver Flushing in a book almost a year ago but didn't have the bottle to try it until I'd found this site and read all the messages from people for whom it obviously really works.

I've now completed 8 flushes, over a period of about two and a half months. My gallbladder pain started last January; it came and went for several months but really got going with a vengeance around the beginning of September and I've mostly not been free of it since. The flushes have all been really successful in that I've ejected lots and lots of stones - some green and some brownish, plus a lot of what looks like coarse grit which I assume is bits of hard stone coming from the gallbladder itself. I've followed the basic Dr Clarke recipe that so many of you recommend, with the modification that I don't need to use quite so much Epsom salt. Also I found after about flush 5 that pink grapefruit juice is just so much nicer and easier to take than ordinary grapefruit or lemon juice. For the first two or three flushes I felt absolutely dreadful for the following day or two, but progressively since then I've found the flushes easier and easier to get over and to tolerate generally (apart from flush 4 - I made the mistake of continuing to drink water after two pm and found the ES, olive oil and juice very much more difficult to take. In the night I was as sick as a person can be. Lesson - take literal notice of the instructions and DO NOT DRINK ANYTHING after 2pm). There have been one or two days following flushes when I have felt better than I've ever felt in my life. However, the effect soon wears off and I'm back to pretty much constant pain under the right side of my ribcage.

Last week (and I'm getting to the point of my query now, so thank you for your patience in reading this far) the pain came on again after an unusually long pain-free period of almost a week. It has increased steadily since then. I've done two flushes in the last week to try to shift the problem. Both were successful in that stones emerged (mostly darkish green ugly looking things, one or two of which were pretty big) but the flushes did nothing to help the pain. It's got worse, and I was awake most of last night with it. I'm wondering if it could be an infection in the gallbladder region. My neck glands feel slightly swollen and I've been feeling a bit hot and cold like you do with an infection. Have any of you any experience of this which would help? Is it likely to go away if I'm patient? Or should I go to the doc?

I'd be most grateful for any advice or experiences any of you can share with me.

General info: I'm 46 years old, female and overweight (although not as overweight as I used to be). I have two children. For many years now in my family we have eaten a largely organic diet and have mostly managed to avoid junk food (from what some of you say I suspect that it's easier to do these things here in the UK than in some places in the States, although it still takes careful planning and purchasing). Unfortunately I have not managed to avoid alcohol as much as I should and have generally had a fairly robust consumption of red wine - until recently, that is - I've almost given it up completely. Also, I've more or less given up coffee (which was tough) but I still drink one or two cups of tea per day. I eat mostly vegetables, meat (all organic) and fish, with some wholegrain foods. Very little dairy because I don't really like it. Two months ago I bought a juicer and have become an avid drinker of fresh vegetable and fruit juices.

I haven't done the parasite cleansing that so many of you recommend because I had no idea where to get the exotic ingredients involved (but despite this I've still ejected a vast number of stones). However, just this week I've successfully ordered some Chinese parasite cleansing herbs from fitandslim.co.uk and will get started on those as soon as I feel better. Apart from this, I take daily doses of Epsom Salt (half a teaspoon), lecithin, malic acid and a teaspoonful of flaxseed oil. I've also tried the coffee enemas with some success. Oh and, incidentally, I did go to the doctor back in January when I started getting the pain and he diagnosed gallstones. I suppose one good thing about the national health service is that nothing gets done quickly, or, indeed, at all unless you're positively dying. So he didn't send me for tests or promise to whip my gall bladder out. He prescribed some painkillers and anti-nausea tablets (neither of which I took) and basically seemed to want me to go away and not trouble him any more. I haven't been back and I would very much like to cure this myself (with a lot of help from the people on this website, of course).

Many thanks to you all. You've been such a help and encouragement, especially the frequent posters (Painted Lady, Oleg, SB, Charles, Spirit, John Collinson and many many others).

Petra