Let me try to answer you. I have been here since 2003 and have done more than 60+ flushes. Since my stone is 2.8 cm what you have is small to me.
I have still my stone but my health has improved, of course I also have improved my eating habits etc.

I have done a lot of reading and based on a study in China stones smaller than 1 cm might come out.
I have read also a lot of people that had bigger stones but noone had ever checked if it was a calcified stone.

Since I am against anesthesia I never wanted surgery, actually I am more scared of that. May be if I could have gotten an epidural might have considered surgery, on the other hand I don't really have problems.

Search under the name Fernando, he started somewhere in my time and he had many stones, like you, but never had surgery either.

So I would suggest based on my personal experience and reading to do the flushes. Also you can check the Truth on Medicine forum. This forum is not for flushing but you could add that system to the flushing and see what happens.

Surgery gives other problems and I always feel every organ we have is there for a reason.

BTW I never worried about the stone getting stuck, actually the reason I had problems was because it was stuck in the gallbladderneck and it became free floating because of the flushes and it healed the inflammation and symptoms.

The average bile duct is about 6mm measured at rest, that is without the gallbladder being contracted. Because the common bile is sealed at one end by a circular muscle when the gallbladder contracts the diameter of the bile duct expands a little. The circular muscle called the sphincter of oddi relaxes and tightens allowing the bile to spurt into the duodenum. When you take a strong solution of Epsom Salts it relaxes this muscle allowing he passage of particles including calcified gallstones.

People with Gallstones often (but not always) a larger than normal bile duct diameter usually around 8mm and up to 16mm. Common bile duct diameter measurements are sometimes used for diagnosis of non-opaque Gallstones (those that don't show on ultra-sound)

Calcified cholesterol Gallstones (the most common type) are usually grow to about 10mm in diameter. The existence of gallstones often reduce how much the gallbladder contracts and the stones are often laying in the sticky bile at the walls of the gallbladder. Consequently, it is unlikely that you will expel the gallstones with a single even a few liver-flushes. Despite this you should still see the green/yellow stones that are so common. Hidden among debris may be one or more of your calcified gallstones. Even so they are not hard like a true stone and may be crushed with force of a finger and thumb.

Here is the link to the Chinese article:

http://www.itmonline.org/arts/gallstones.htm


You may also be interested to know that in a little publicised article; a study carried out in 1989 had a 70% success rate in expelling gallstones using ear point acupuncture along with eating a lard fried egg each day to stimulate the gallbladder. I only give this as example to illustrate that gallstones can be passed.

""When is better to do a surgery instead of a flush/cleanse?""

The straight answer to that is Never!
Unless your into helping a sergeon with his or her big morgage.

Go to the Ask Dr Sutter forum.
Its discussed in length about "not getting anything stuck during a flush".
The short story to that is to drink a quart of apple juice for three days prior to a flush and adding some ultrafos to the juice.
The malic acid in the apple juice softens the stones and the ultrafos also does the same.
If you add that to your flush along with the Epsom Salt you will be in the optimum position for a 100% stuck free flush and tell the physicion - good luck with the morgage.

In one of my early flushes I did have some very large gall stones which wouldn't come out, they were more than 1" although irregular in form. I massaged my bile duct - about an inch under the sternum and a little to the right side, and was able to get them moving. I could feel a popping sensation when they passed out into the intestine. They tended to hang up also in the small intestine so I kept massaging (gently!) until they passed through the small intestine into the large intestine. This only happened once but the hanging up in the small intestine happens whenever I pass large stones. I have Celiac Disease and a damaged small intestine so this may not happen to you.

I think it depends how bad your symptoms are whether you can take the time to use the apple juice or Dr. Hulda Clark 's Kidney Cleanse. Both are ways to dissolve the harder calcium stones which are more likely to jam and not come out. So if your Dr. told you you need the surgery now Clark advises you just to do the liver cleanse immediatly even though you may feel ill. If your Dr. told you that you needed to have surgery soon you may have time to do some preperation and have an easier time of it. Clark wrote that you could do the cleanses every two weeks but I have found that I can do them 3 times every other day. I'm still getting out many stones after 20 years of cleanses.

Sorry to hear that buddy. Right now the only way to do that is by removing the gall bladder entirely.

But check this, there is a new concept that will only remove the gallstone only. Nothing to lose here. Just check this site and see the detailed user experience. http://whatisgallstone.com/