Gallbladder no longer functioning. Time for a cleanse?

MA10 said...
I was told last week that my gallbladder is functioning at 16% Is it time for a cleanse?

* Are you experiencing digestive issues? Is that why you had your gallbladder checked?
* What's your diet look like? What foods are you eating most of the time?

MA10 said...
My doctor has been telling me to do a liver and gallbladder cleanse for years, but I never listened.

Is this a medical doctor??? I think you were right to be wary of such "cleanses," because, as you noted, you could end up in emergency surgery having your gallbladder removed.

I'm not here to scare you, but I'm also not here to encourage you. I respect your right to do what you want. I'm just hoping you've done good research and looked beyond this forum and health "experts" on YouTube.

Please forgive me, if this seems a bit harsh. I'm not trying to be mean. If my best friend came to me with this idea, I'd say the same thing...and much more!

Either way, I wish you the best of luck.

Thanks for the detailed reply, MA10.

Albeit a different issue, I wasn't aware you'd had a concussion. Good grief. I'm sorry to hear that, amigo. As if you didn't have enough to handle. I hope there are no lasting effects from the injury.

As for your liver and gallbladder, I'm glad you're consulting with both an MD and an ND. After the things I've read, regarding liver/gallbladder flushes, I'm surprised an MD would recommend one. Then again, I'm not the one who went to medical school. Your doctor must have successfully guided enough others through the procedure and has enough clinical or anecdotal information to make the recommendation.

Once again, I'm sorry for my alarmist tone in the prior post. This is not something to be taken lightly and I can see that you have some hesitations of your own. So, I'm glad you're getting a second opinion.

Did your doctor have anything else to report from your HIDA scan, other than mentioning your gallbladder functioning at 16% of normal?

auzzie, that's the one I was going to follow. Except I haven't done a ton of parasite treatment this week. I've had one homeopathic for parasites going, but I haven't been super consistent with taking it. That's why I was afraid that I would kill too much and herx awfully. Thanks for sharing this info. I am wondering if I need to backup and focus on killing the liver flukes before attempting a cleanse. I think that my end goal is to help the gallbladder, and killing the flukes would also help the gallbladder. What parasite remedy did you use for flukes?

MA10 I just used the Dr Hulda Clarke remedy - (out of necessity) the others I got an allergic reaction to. I bought Parafight from iHerb by Eclectic Institute. It is a good price and it works.
You are right back up and take it one step at a time. Think of a herx as a sure sign you are on your way.
Dude - I was first diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome and I was told to take a parasite remedy as a precaution every year. No tests in those days, it was 15 years ago and I had untreated lyme so parasites became a recurring issue. I saw parasites in my stools with taking the remedy. Then I just assumed a regular dose was clearing me of parasites. It doesn't.
A kinesiologist said I had liver parasites. I went to my GP for confirmation and his test was negative. I tried to get a specialist to help but he wouldnt get on board I cant remember why. But, he was a CFS specialist you would think they would be better informed.
A Naturopath said she would just bypass the testing and give me the remedy to try - apparently they only test for a couple of dozen known parasites and it was gong to cost $200. I am in Australia and this was more than a decade ago it might be different elsewhere. So with a history of taking a remedy and seeing the parasites after 6 days for myself I took the remedy and I could recognise the adult liver flukes from pictures on the internet. There were hundreds of them I was horrified. It took about 10 months to be clear by then I knew I had lyme and I was treating for that too.
These days I get bioresonance tests about once a year the naturopath I go to has an Assyra machine and it gives me some idea what is happening with my health. I used it first to see if I had lyme disease and it has worked as a guide for telling me my primary issues, but it is a bit limited by my naturopaths' interpretation. He doesn't understand about lyme. It is hard to get a LLMD here when I enquired I had to wait 6-8 months for a Doctor who would want to do super-expensive overseas testing to prove what I already knew. Plus by this time I was getting allergic to everything food, electromagnetic radiation and herbs and supplements just finding something I could take was become an ordeal. I am heaps better and can put in a whole day on a good day. No parasites these days but I am prone to them. Lots of allergies still. I am self treating. So this is what worked for me. We eat so much imported food these days - one bioresonance tests I did came up with the name of a parasite that is only in the ocean waters of the Atlantic sea. I traced it to the canned Sardines I was buying. I dont think a doctor's test would pick up that particular parasite. The liver flukes I had were from shellfish imported from Thailand. My thinking is that the tests of today in our individual countries have not caught up with the exposure we have to the parasites that are being introduced into our food supply.

Dude - thank you I appreciate everything you said.
Loved the insight on de-worming our pets.
I have low stomach acid too. I dont think you can get rid of parasites until you address this issue too. I have tried the usual remedies and get improvements maybe thats all you can expect.
Good luck with all your work on the forum. You are right we have to advocate for ourselves and in doing so we help others. Keep up the good work.

Dude, in response to:
Did your doctor have anything else to report from your HIDA scan, other than mentioning your gallbladder functioning at 16% of normal?

No. They didn’t find stones or anything else out of norm.

MA10 - I thought you were working thats why you are shy of the herxing.
I buy the remedy from iHerb. When I do take it I take it at full dose 10 days on 5 days off, 10 days on 5 days off, and so on. That was the advice I had. The first 4 days I noticed hardly any change and the the following week was the hardest and after that the herx is there but in the back ground. For me it was tolerable. It took months before it went completely. You are healthier than me so you may not even notice much. Coffee enemas with the parasite remedy in them are good. If you are doing it properly it will reach the gall bladder and kill liver flukes there, it wont reach the liver so it is just something that speeds up the process you can do them on the 5 days off so the bugs dont get any kind of an advantage in your gall bladder , plus you wont herx this way., and you are still doing considerable damage. You will see dead flukes everywhere.
Dr Hulda Clarke says not to do liver flushe (the olive oil and grapefruit) when you have parasites and a lyme infection so I have always waited.
There are other liver and gall bladder cleanses that work just fine without any pain and suffering. Chanca Piedra and apple cider vinegar go a long way to breaking down gallstones and clearing them. I tried a product called Gallcleanse - I dont know if it is still available and that worked all gall bladder pain went in 8 weeks. Herbal liver cleanses will also support your gall bladder. Anything with milk thistle and dendelion root will help. Just put liver cleanse in the search feature for Iherb and read the reviews on the products that come up. It is different now they have different products . R- Alpha lipoic acid and inositol are supplements I have taken in rotation to support the liver. Hit this thing from all sides and you will be OK. Like Buhner says you need a number of fire trucks to put out this fire. There needs to be something to drive down the infection, something that offers organ support so the organ can get back to normal function and something that supports a detox.
The Oil and grapefruit cleanse can be for later doing it now with an active infection in your liver is too risky in my view. When I did finally do it had been doing herbal cleanses. At the time I saw hardly any stones just chaff, and a tonne of mucous from the infections in my bile duct and maybe from gut. I know is was clearing the bile duct because the pain there gradually abated. IAs a side effect it made all the intestinal plaque come away from the gut wall. So my thinking was that it was doing more than a liver cleanse but was cleaning up my gut at that stage and I am very grateful because I felt awesome 8 flushes. After that I wasnt seeing more rubbish at all so I stopped them.