Hi,
I am brand new to this list, and posted earlier, and as yet no one has responded.
I am due to go in for GB surgery later this week, and am desperate to avoid it. I have found this list, and other places on the internet with info on the gallbladder flush. However, I am a bit fearful, because of negative information on the flush that I found while searching the internet. Here is an example of what I found that has me fearful of trying the gallbladder flush. This is from an M.D.’s web site. I would deeply appreciate it if anyone would comment on the following:
“Swallowing several ounces of pure olive oil at one sitting makes for a very large, fatty meal - and such a great load of fat could potentially trigger a sustained, severe contraction of the gallbladder. If there are actual stones contained inside the gallbladder, such a forceful contraction could result in an excruciating bout of right upper quadrant abdominal pain for the owner of the gallbladder - and a possible unplanned trip to the operating room for an emergency cholecystectomy (removal of the gallbladder).”
Again, I sure would appreciate it if anyone with experience in using the GB flush would comment on the likelihood of this happening. The pain involved in the four GB attacks I’ve had over the past few weeks has been tremendous, and of course the doctors have played on this in order to get me to have the surgery right away. I do not look forward to going through the pain again, so began preparing the for the surgery, until I came across this GB flush information in the internet. I am supposed to have surgery later this week, and would love to avoid it. Someone please help me out here.
Regards,
Steve Barwick
4 responses so far ↓
1 Nell Paul // Feb 1, 2004 at 1:01 pm
Hello Steve and welcome.
Steve,
80 - 90% of people came to this list because they were diagnosed with
gallstones and/or they had gallstones attack.
So far, at least 20-40% of us did at least one cleanse, most people did much
more then 3 cleanses.
500 - 600 members passed through this list in last few years.
We can estimate that at least 150 people on this list did cleanse.
We can estimate that at least 100 of those 150 have been diagnosed with
gallstones.
We can estimate that average number of cleanses done by those 100 people is 4.
(some people did over 20 cleanses)
4 * 100 = 400
So, if you use this simple mathematic (”and a lot of estimations” - you would
say), you come to a number of ~400 cleanses that have been done by people who
have been or are still members of this list and are diagnosed with gallstones.
Do we agree about this ?
I know, this is what you may think:
(
“You expect me to agree, because I am new here and I don’t know if anything you
said here is true.”
)
I did not hear of one single person who had to go for emergency surgery,
because of cleanse.
Anyone hear who heard about it ?
I know, this is what’s going through your head:
(
“You Agnes don’t read all the posts on this list.”
“You are reading only 10% of all the posts”
“If that person is dead, then chances are small that list will get e-mail
message from that person !?”
“You can not estimate and you don’t know how many people died while cleansing.”
“We all know that from time to time some people just stop posting and never
come back to the group.”
“Don’t anyone here wonder what happend to all those people ?”
“Don’t you think that some of them could be dead ? ”
“Is it only me who is worried here ? ”
“I know that when someone on cancer list stop posting, it is usually a bad
sign.”
“I know that this is not a cancer group, but still …”
)
2 Nell Paul // Feb 2, 2004 at 12:51 am
Why do I ask this question ?
Because that MD must be a rare one.
3 babette400 // Feb 2, 2004 at 4:55 am
<< What is a name of that MD, who is opposed to liver/GB cleanse ?
Why do I ask this question ?
Because that MD must be a rare one.
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Agnes,
I don’t know any MD who says the GB cleanse works. Perhaps there’s one
somewhere who’s not fossile-brained. But there’s an osteopathic medical
doctor who also studies natural medicine, and he says the cleanse works. He
has it posted at his website, but it’s a different recipe from some I’ve seen.
Oh, I almost forgot. Dr. Sandra Cabot is an MD and a naturopathic doctor.
She says the cleanses work. So I was wrong. However, she’s in Australia.
Very smart gal. Perhaps some narrow-minded MDs in this country might
accidently study her stuff and decide that it makes sense.
Susie
4 babette400 // Feb 2, 2004 at 8:42 pm
<< We have an MD who is actually for gallbladder flushes. He works in a
chiropractic’s office. laura
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Laura,
I have a feeling that if many of them wake up from their brain fog, maybe
they’ll seriously start studying it.
Susie
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