I strike a blow to the dastardly gallstones!
8:56PM, July 17, 2004 - [ Permalink]
Success!
A few days ago, a friend of mine dropped off some stuff he had come across on gallstones, and a possible method of getting them out.
It involves drinking a fair amount of epson salts in water, followed a few hours later by olive oil and grapfruit juice, sleep, more water with epson salts.
Both the epson salt water and the olive oil are rather unpleasant going down.
I slept reasonably well, and this morning awoke and had two more glasses of epson salt water, two hours apart.
Low and behold, I went to the washroom (really nasty on the way out) and when I looked, there were a great number of little green bits in the toilet - most likely gallstones. I stopped counting at 50. I would estimate that there would likely be at least ten times that many in the bowl. And that was the first run to the washroom (really, a run). ;-) There were several more runs to the washroom throughout the day, each less intense than the last.
I think I will try this again next weekend and see what happens.
I was tempted to try having pancakes tomorrow at brunch, but after thinking about it a bit, I will wait until after I have seen the specialist on Monday (fingers crossed).
Anyways, I feel reasonably well now, and my spirits are certainly up.
