Excellent!

Bri,
So what exactly did you do, and how did you wean yourself back onto solid foods? Glad you're better BTW.

That next rack of ribs, or even a seemingly innocuous bologna and cheese sandwich will put you back right where you began.

Suck it up and go see a doctor.

....and that's what that ghost girl from the sixth sense kept saying...:worried:

....if she'd only gone to a doctor. :rolleyes:

Ah, too true, too true. I am watching it (sometimes I watch it better than others) and I plan on seeing a Dr. next week. The thought of surgery...well, I don't want it, but, if I have to, I have to. Lithotripsy is out.

I did two days of juice only (no orange, too acidy) then soft foods for a day. I was feeling so much better after that that I just started eating regularly again. BTW-the juice fast made me feel energized.

They don't do that for gallstones anymore. It didn't work, apparently.

The fancy medical term for that, as you know, is "sugar rush."

I tried mightily to avoid pure sugar rushes--I drank V8, carrot and (ok, I'll give you this one) apple juice. I think I just felt better 'coz I felt skinny! :lol:

What you have to effectively do is eliminate ALL fat from your diet. More than 5 grams per day will put you into a state which morphine will barely touch. I lasted nearly eight months between diagnosis (Thanksgiving weekend, not surprisingly a time when many gall bladders flare up) and the actual operation, while trying to get together funds to pay for it all because I had no health insurance. When they began the laproscopy, it was discovered that my gall bladder had completely disintegrated and they had to rush in a different surgeon to make a large incision and flush out my body cavity with saline. The doctor had 15 years experience in this kind of operation and she said she had never seen anything like it, she said it should have been impossible for me to stand the pain. Up to the time I lay down on the table I had been functioning on Tylenol and a no-fat diet, though, simply because I had no choice.

Oh yeah, and I lost 12 pounds too.

Do not rationalize or look for temporary fixes. Quit trying to fool yourself. Once the gallstones start they do not go completely away later, you will have to have the operation now or someday, but you will have it. Better now than at the autopsy, huh? Unless you are especially fond of the idea of massive pain and possible death, get it now.

learnt a lot about Gall Bladder and its opearation in human body. thx mate.

Hey Brianna,

If you have gallstones I recommend having surgery to have your gallbladder removed. I was sick (in pain, throwing up, etc) like you were, and dealt with it for a year (because I had no insurance)...and ended up with an ulcer from it, from throwing up so much. I was sick 4 or 5 times a week though, and mostly during the middle of the night. I know how painful it is, and it's been my experience that you really don't need your gallbladder all that much to function, and function properly. I've been without mine for 4 years and haven't noticed much of a difference at all. To find out if you have them is pretty painless and if you have insurance, just a co-pay. The surgery is practically painless (afterwards) out-patient type, and I was up and at it the next day. I have three little scars on my stomach.