Just to keep you all informed.

On the 12th December I was still passing a few small white pieces of sludge and some mucus. It was the day I returned to my Doctor to discuss the results of the blood test and ultra-sound. The blood tests were normal but my cholesterol level had dropped from 7.1 mmol (274 mg/dl) to 5.7 mmol (220 mg/dl). He reiterated what the radiologist told me at the hospital, that my gall bladder was full of sludge and that they could not confirm the existence of stones. I said that I think the stones might be coming out on their own as I was noticing some green and white ones in the stools. He didn’t have a clue what they were so I didn’t’ say anything more. The whole flushing thing would have blown his mind and I would have been carried away in a padded truck. We agreed to wait and if the gall bladder attacks reoccurred he would schedule another ultra-sound.

I think that two important lessons can be learned from this:

1. Flushing lowered my cholesterol by 20%.
2. The ultra-sound did not detect stones that I expelled a week 2 weeks later even though 9 of them were greater than 1 cm diameter.