Suspected gallstones

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Docs will steal your money and you will never be as healthy as you

used to be. Surgery for gallstones is barbaric.

 

My friend Ambros wrote the information below. He is nearly 80, does

not need glasses, takes no prescription drugs, and gives mighty good

health advice.

 

Alobar

 

Get rid of gallstones without surgery.

 

Get rid of G A L L S T O N E S painlessly without surgery

 

It must have been a woman who said that the three worst kinds of

pain a human being can experience are kidney-stone colic, gallstone

colic and labor pains. If you have gone through one or the other of

these, you understand what she means. We tend to really understand

only things which life has illustrated for us.

 

What is a gallstone colic?

 

You cannot easily mistake a gallstone attack, also referred to as

a gallstone colic or a gallbladder attack, for something else. It

comes as a hot sweep of pain across your middle, its epicenter a

little to the right of the stomach and about a hand's breadth below

the ribs. More often than not it hits full force right out of the

blue. It may break into a succession of waves of pain or remain one

continuous scream of pain to torment you for hours.

Before I move on, here is a word of reassurance. For one, a

gallstone attack is not life-threatening though the pain may become so

intense that you may wish you were dead. Next, if you can't bear the

pain, you may reach for a pain killer. It may take a heavy-duty one

to make the pain bearable till help arrives. But help is just around

the corner.

A colic is the result of a gallstone caught in the bile duct.

Some people carry gallstones in their gallbladder for years without

knowing that they are there. Some smaller stones may pass without

calling attention to themselves. But when a bigger stone gets caught,

the duct spasms and the result is the unbearable pain.

Impossible to tell just what makes a stone suddenly slip into the

bile duct. The consumption of a big fatty meal may do it. A signal

goes to the gall bladder to release a big quantity of bile. If a

gallstone happens to be in the wrong place, it may be swept along only

to get stuck in the bile duct. Presto, a wave of pain.

An emotional upset can trigger a gallstone attack. Perhaps the

upset has the same effect as the fatty meal -- that it causes the gall

bladder to squirt bile into the bile duct and a stone may be swept

along.

Some people have gallbladder attacks though X-rays show no

gallstones. Dr. James C. Breneman of the American College of

Allergists contends that these attacks are caused by foods to which

the patient is allergic and that they can be prevented if the

allergenic foods are eliminated from the diet. Whatever the cause,

the effects are the same -- terrible pain.

The progress of the ill depends on the size and the number of the

culprit(s). A small stone may cause no more than a relatively short

wave of pain; if the stone is large, it may mean hours and hours of

agony. If there is more than one stone, attack may follow attack at

irregular intervals.

 

First Aid Measures

 

1. As much as possible, relax; at least dismiss the fear that

the attack may kill you.

2. Fast. Don't eat or drink at least till the first wave of the

attack is over. When the attack is over, try a glass of water. Next,

try a glass of fruit juice and/or eat some fruit -- a slice of melon,

a banana, a peach or an apple. If, half an hour later, the pain has

not come back, try a snack of non-fat food such as a hot cereal with a

little skim milk. And, if this does not lead to renewed pain, the

whole ordeal may be over. You may not have another attack for months,

perhaps for years.

3. If the pain comes back, fast again. Do not drink anything

till the attack is over but continue to abstain from food for at least

twenty-four hours. Break the fast with a glass of fruit juice and

some fifteen minutes later have a light meal. Again, this may be the

end of the ordeal. If it is not, get ready to rid yourself of the

gallstones.

 

You have two choices -- you can see a doctor or DO IT YOURSELF.

Perhaps you should see a doctor, if only to have the presence of

gallstones confirmed. That can be done by X-ray or ultrasound. But

seeing a doctor will mean waiting; it may mean all sorts of probably

unnecessary tests; it may mean pills -- pills for the pain and pills

to dissolve the stones -- and hard-to-resist pressure to have yourself

scheduled for surgery. The surgical removal of the gallbladder

(cholecystectomy) is big business. Hundreds of thousands of them are

excised annually in the US, tens of thousands in Canada. Doing it

yourself will mean about six hours of a dietary procedure which is so

simple that you may shake your head in disbelief when I tell you what

it involves but which is sure to rid you of the stones within the next

twenty-four hours. It is non-invasive, wholly painless and fully

effective, and it leaves your gallbladder where it has always been.

 

How to get rid of gallstones

 

Go buy half a liter of GOOD olive oil -- only " extra-virgin olive

oil " is good enough -- and seven or eight medium-size lemons. Then go

about your treatment this way:

 

1) Don't eat anything after the midday meal...

2) Commence the actual treatment about 6:00 p.m. Take four

tablespoonfuls of the oil and immediately after take a tablespoon of

pure, freshly extracted and unsweetened lemon juice... repeat this

fifteen minutes later -- first four tablespoons of oil and then one

tablespoon of the lemon juice... continue repeating this every fifteen

minutes until all the oil is gone... then drink the remaining lemon

juice. If you don't want to mess around with single tablespoons,

measure four spoonfuls into a small container once, note how far this

fills the container and then take the oil from the container in one

gulp every fifteen minutes. Egg cups or shot glasses do fine.

 

It is very important that all the oil be taken at those intervals.

The purpose of the lemon juice is to " settle " the oil and to keep

nausea from developing. Even so, an occasional patient will vomit

some of the oil during or after the treatment. But that's merely an

excess quantity not required by that particular patient's system for

achieving the full results. Note that even if you vomit some of the

oil during the treatment, you must carry on taking the oil at the

fifteen minute intervals. If you don't do that, some of the stones

may be left " in transit " and they may cause biliary colic a few days

later, when they begin to move without the soothing and softening

action of the olive oil.

For the next twenty-four to forty-eight hours, you should pass all

bowel movements into a basin or a bowl. Run water strongly on the

excrement to wash out the stones. Most of them will sink but some

may float. They may vary in size from that of a grain of millet to

several times the size of a big chickpea.

If you can do it, rinse all the culprits out and count them. You

may be in for a surprise. I have known cases that yielded several

dozen stones. If you find it difficult to examine your stool in

detail, either let someone else do it for you or pick out at least a

few of the offenders to confirm their presence.

Most of them are the biliverdin type -- solidified green bile --

and they tend to be bluish-green spotted with yellow. In very rare

cases there are bilirubin stones -- solidified red bile pigment --

which are bright red in appearance. All of them tend to be softened

to the point of rubberiness. In fact, the softening and dissolving

action of this treatment is such that, unless you keep them in the

fridge, they will fall away into an oily liquid in a day or two.

If you have been scheduled for surgery, do the oil treatment a few

days before, wash the stones from the excrement and then take them

along to show to your doctor that, whether (s)he likes it or not,

surgery is no longer necessary. Remember to keep them refrigerated.

Good luck....

 

An ounce of prevention...

 

Preventing gallstones from forming, it seems, is not as easy as

getting rid of them, chiefly because we don't really know what causes

them. We do know that they consist mainly of cholesterol but we don't

know just what makes the difference between cholesterol that stays

liquid and cholesterol which decides to solidify. Reducing your

cholesterol intake is no guarantee that stones won't form. Various

studies have shown that people who consume no cholesterol at all -- no

meat, no dairy products, no eggs -- can still end up with a high

cholesterol count and -- yes -- with gallstones. Cholesterol is a

vital substance. If your body does not get it from the food you eat,

your liver produces it.

Faute de mieux, I recommend that people plagued with gallstones

worry less about their cholesterol intake -- a moderate intake of

cholesterol is probably best -- than about things that can be counted

on to keep cholesterol mobile -- lecithin, garlic, good vegetable oil,

extra fiber and exercise. Beans, peas and lentils are good food

sources of lecithin. You can, moreover, buy lecithin granules at your

health food store. Garlic is best taken raw but garlic pearls are a

good second best. You need not avoid eggs unless you are allergic to

them. Though the egg yolk contains much cholesterol, it also contains

lecithin, the substance that keeps cholesterol " honest. " As for good

oil -- GOOD means cold-pressed; it means that the oil comes in bottles

made of dark glass or, better yet, in opaque metal or plastic bottles;

it means that the oil should be fresh, preferably no more than a few

months old. A diet high in fiber can be counted on to afford

protection against gallstones. In societies where people consume a

lot of fiber, gallstones are virtually unknown. Exercise, apart from

whatever else it does for you, helps to keep cholesterol mobile.

If X-rays show no gallstones, the attack may indeed be due to

allergenic foods. In this case, prevention would focus first on

identifying the offensive foods and then on avoiding them. At the

beginning of an attack, start a fast. Fast for two days and then break

your fast with one food. If that one food triggers another attack,

you mark that food as offensive. Continue this procedure as long as

you can take it or till you run out of troublesome foods.

Here are two short lists of foods, one of foods that are least

likely to be allergens -- rye, beef, soybeans, rice, spinach, yogurt;

and a second one of foods that are most likely to be allergenic

offenders -- wheat, pork, eggs, milk, coffee, oranges, corn. If you

want quick relief from an attack without having to fast, reach for

foods in the first list. If you are prepared to go all the way, fast

for a couple of days and then test the potential offenders in the

second list one by one. If, after having determined which foods you

are sensitive to, you avoid those foods, you may never have another

gallbladder colic.

 

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On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:12 AM,

PurpleDiamond<abigpurplediamond wrote:

> Leif,

>  You say this started 18 months ago & you're too cheap to go to the doctor? Do

you realize this can lead to pancreatitis? Which if your pancreas fails you

DIE!! Do go to the doctor & see how bad this has gotten before you try to fix it

yourself. It could be something totally different. A friend of mine just died

yesterday, he had Pneumonia & didn't want to spend the money to go see the doc,

his body shut down & he had a heart attack a few hours after he finally gave in

& went to the hospital, he was only 50. I'm all for doing things yourself & not

taking medications but once in awhile you need to see the doc to find out what

IS wrong with you. Another friend had similar symptons as you & she has

pancreatic cancer, they have given her little hope for recovery, she has opted

for Chemo.

>  Stop eating all whole foods & start juicing fruits & veggies or use a blender

& DRINK all raw food this way your body doesn't have to do much for digestion.

Then try searching the messages here for " gallstones " to see what people have

posted before on this topic.

>

>

>

> , " groupleif " <groupleif

wrote:

>>

>> About 18 months ago i got a severe stabbing pain in my upper-right side

(right around where the liver and gallbladder are located). It felt like someone

stabbed a knife into my back, twisted it, and held it there for 30 minutes.

Every day since then i feel like constant crap. My abdomen has a constant

feeling of discomfort. Every time i eat something (no matter what i eat) i get

abdominal pain and/or my body becomes overheated (starting at the stomach). The

more i eat, the more pain i get and/or overheated i become, so i try to eat

small meals. >

>> Leif