88809, I don't know about the others, but I'm sure glad you're here! Apparently someone else is also from the RRR this post got!!
My mother had gallbladder surgery before I became ill with my liver. I'd seen gallstones straight out of a gallbladder ... huge ones, over 1" in diameter. Flushing, I saw that I had ones just like that as well as the pea green, pea-size ones.
I tumbled out of my attic 13 months ago yesterday and found gallstones in my toilet within 12 hours ... NO OLIVE OIL OR GRAPEFRUIT JUICE ... I KNOCKED those suckers out in the fall!!!!
I had help in formulating a gentle liver flush that I call the Plzchuckle Hot Lemonade Flush. ! tablespoon of evoo and 1 lemon and I've passed very old stones that I had felt moving down throw my liver for elimination.
Need I say that I'm fed up with the soap-stones theory?
Now ...
A hobby researcher challenges the PRO to do some study of your own. Multivitamins ... I want you to take a long hard look at "isolates" when it comes to vitamins and what you're doing to your body.
Do we need vitamins? ab so lute ly !! raw fresh organic foods, wholefood supplements, superfoods ONLY if you want it to work and do no damage.
You can use the search function on the right corner and find the Plzchuckle Hot Lemonade Flush. Dennis Hardy ND at the forum of the same name was my buddy before he ever came here. He fussed at me for all the flushing I was doing, and that was only every 4th week (I had suffered malnutrition from not digesting food for months before I started this and my body couldn't take 2 week flushes ... messed with my electrolytes would be my guess, I didn't have much in reserve). I kept flushing anyway ... pain will make you ignore good intension.
Dennis had posted the 8 oz orange juice, 1 table spoon of evoo and pre-flush steps etc on his forum. I was already drinking the hot lemonade in the evening to soothe my liver and to get off the 5 pots of coffee a day habit that I'd had for years. I asked him if he thought hot lemonade would work just a well, he told me to go for it, it was citrus. I'd had my first stone free flush and didn't see any stones in the next 4 or 5. In late summer, I felt that old familiar pinching in my liver that I recognized as a stone moving and sure enough, the next day I began passing stones again ... only maybe 5 or 6 and not all at once like doing a HC flush, but come out they did and w/o a bit of problem. Dennis recommends cayenne as the dialative instead of epsom and one doesn't go through the buttpee (as I affectionately call that stage of liver flushing).
I recommend that everybody do HC flushes to start with to get a good visual on what they are accomplishing with flushing. Anybody that absolutely can't take it can use the gentler flushes, but need to know they are in for a long haul, even with corrected diet and good supplementation ... gentle flushes are just that ... GENTLE ... HC protocol is rugged by comparison, but definitely worth the results!
I'm taking MHs plant iodine/potassium tincture presently ... my glands under my chin have gone down noticibly, my sleep time has increased to a minimum of 5 straight hours (I have fibro and could fall asleep anywhere and anytime, but get in bed at night, I might be awake in 45 mins and every 45 mins all night long) ... somedays, my energy level is real good (other days, not so much so, but with the liver pain gone and it healing, I'm now aware of how seriously ill my right kidney is ... sometimes it seems to take the wind out of my sails) ... my bowel movements have darkened perceptively, but I'm having a bit of trouble with very mild constipation, nothing like in my lifetime past, don't know if this is the iodine, the kidney or my lousy diet for the last 4 months ... I thought I'd gone pain free with FCBD until I started taking the iodine, this is what breast are suppose to feel like! a total unawareness of them.
Hanna tells people "wait til plz gets here, she'll tell you about food" ... "let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food" that and Genesis 1:29. Food can cure you or kill you and it's certainly your choice. I mostly eat raw, organic fruit and veggies ... green smoothie does a body good!!! Unlike milk. Unfined, cold-pressed oils are a must to be healthy. I distill my own water, I don't drink a whole lot of plain water ... hot lemon or limeade ... organic juices ... herbal teas ... falling off my wagon has me drinking a bit, maybe 2 cups of coffee a day right now ... I will be starting a juice fast next tues so I'll be back to NO coffee. My one dealy sin is ciggies and I'm going for quitting to fast this year.
My longest fast to date has been 4 days and I quit because I planned to do a 4 day fast, not because of any problems. I'm going for a minimum of 7 days this time on OJ ... a healing fast ... IF I've made a turn around and seriously starting to feel good, I will extend it ... I will be paying close attention to this right kidney, it will let me know stop or go.