I would like to help you to understand that flushing just starts the
cleansing process of getting the gallbladder and live back to a healthy
condition. It is much the same as trying to clean up an oil spill it just
isn't all gotten with one quick swipe of a rag.
I was told by my doctor in February of 99 to have my gallbladder removed
within the next two weeks after an MRI showed it to be thickened, therefore
diseased, and having "A" stone. He stated to me, and my wife, that my
gallbladder probably hadn't been working well for the last ten years. I
didn't like the idea of losing something with which I had started my life
and so because of that started my research on the gallbladder and
alternatives to having it cut out. I started flushing after doing some
preliminary work of detoxing and changing my diet from a high fat to a much
reduced intake of fat. Of course at the time I really didn't understand the
differences in fats and my misunderstanding led to some other problems
later, after I was now stone free, and had a gallbladder that looked as
normal as anyother gallbladder would in an ultrasound.
I too thought that after having done my first flush I was totally stone free
and that I could eat a nice meal at a resturant without having to worry
about the attacks again. Little did I know at that time that it was going to
be some months before that would be a reality, and after a lot of attacks
that would occur when I would fall off the wagon, so to speak. Even though I
now can eat pretty much with impunity, I still will get warning notes of
discomfort if I eat things that are too fatty with hydrogenated fat or
animal fat, which is a saturated fat. But, I still have my gallbladder and
it appears from my movements that it's working just fine.
Flushing is something that the body would normally do without you even being
concerned with the process if you happened to be eating the right
combinations of foods, along with exercise, and didn't have some genetic
predisposition to a particular disaease. So, I can certainly appreciate just
how you feel about being locked into doing something so distastefull as
taking Epsom Salts , and then a concoction of extra virgin olive oil and a
fresh squeezed fruit juice.
The important thing to remember is the fact that stones didn't occur without
the body haveing something out of balance. So, sometimes it just takes more
time to get back the balance it needs to function correctly, or at least at
a good stubble. Flushing isn't a silver bullet to good health that one shot
does it. Shoot, even if you take an Antibiotic you have to take it
religiously to hopefully kill a bacteria infection, and if it happens to be
a wound it may be necessary to clean that wound daily while the healing
process is taking place.
Needless to say, but disease leads to dis-ease and that is from which we're
all trying to get away.
Dale
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I have opened a can of worms starting this flushing thing, and perhaps I
should have left it alone - I am not interested in Epsom Salts and olive oil
for the rest of my days!
Overreaction that may be, but I have yet to see good results from flushing..
Words of encouragement welcome people!!!
This is a great testimony. I was wondering something about your
story. If you've been flushing for 3 years, have cleaned up your diet
and are watching everything 'going in' so well, and you have a clean
ultrasound now, why do you feel you are still having discomfort?
Do you think your bile within your gb is still producing stones that
need to be cleanses out?
Do you think sludge is building up causing the discomfort?
I was just curious to know what you think it would take for you to be
totally discomfort free. Besides 'baksliding' every now and then, do
you think you will have to watch you diet and fragile gallbladder for
the rest of your life or do you think it has an end soon?
Good luck with your search for pain-free life.
Barry.
I hope this helps you to understand my situation a little bit better.
I have not only had Gallstones but also have a situation from a past disease
that is much too often a death sentence for those who have it. I have been
diagnosed as having had Hepatitis C or what was known as Serum Hepatitis and
Hepatitis A. I got Hepatitis C around 1968 but recovered from that,
somewhat. These showed up when I had my last blood tests done in November of
'99' after the liver attack I had because of having avoiding all fats,
including those that are considered as necessary as Essential Fatty Acids,
while attempting to rid my gallbladder of the stone that the doctors had
said I had.
The problem I'm up against is keeping my liver in the best condition I can
by eating the least amounts of saturated and hydrogenated fats that I can
and then too moderating just how many beverages with an alcohol content are
consumed. I'm very sensitive to my liver's condition and therefore tend to
feel it more than I would care to 'really' know it's there. I'd like it to
be working more in stealth like most all organs should normally work but
just plain eating tends to bring is to life and notability.
So, it's because of the Hepatitis C and A that I have the discomfort but not
what I can call pain. It really is just an annoyance more than anything
else. My last ultrasound also showed my liver looked healthy too but did
have enlarged bile ducts. I believe this is because of the flushes having
caused some stretching of them for a time period. I don't know how things
look today as I've not had any reason to go to the doctor or the hospital
for the last two and a half years. I thank Dr. Sandra Cabot for having
provided me the right information so that I could have some idea as to what
to do to take good care of my liver and therefore my general health.
I still do flushes. In fact I just did one yesterday. However, I do a flush
that I've developed to work along with the colonics I get, when I get the
time to go get them. It really is quite easy and quick compared to all the
other methods that are being discussed on this group.
Since when I get my colonics I do the controlling of my water supply and
waste I can tend to get myself more of what are known as liver dumps than
the colonist working the controls can do for me. I noted that my first
experience with attempting this I had some of the most definitive of liver
dumps I'd had to that date and the next day I had Gallstones show in the
first movement in the morning. How do I know they were gallstones? I picked
them out and opened them up. So, since that first experiment I now try to
make sure of the time I'm to get my colonic and take around three to four
ounces of extra virgin olive oil mixed with just plain old out of the waxed
paper container, not from concentrate, grapefruit juice around two to three
hours before I'm to be hooked up.
Did I get out any stones yesterday? Yeppers.... I got to take note of some
passing in the viewing tube and then when I got home and had to go one more
time before bed there were around ten or more small cholesterol stones in
the water with some flakes. I only checked two of them to make sure they
were stones. Did any show this morning? Nope.
One thing to note about the ones I checked was that because they were not
well formed I would be of the belief that they really were more likely from
the liver.