Tracey
Hey Brad! Keep a hold of your gallbladder! (that's why you're here, right?)
The softer (not calcified) stones don't turn up on the ultrasound - if you're really lucky and no calcified ones showed up on your ultrasound...and you just have stagnant bile sludge and some softer stones...you are super in luck! You should be able to get them out, easy.
But you say you've tried one flush and didn't get one stone? That has happened. Did you follow the recipe exactly...especially not having one iota of fat on the day of the flush?
What is the colour of your bm's? If they are light in colour, that would mean that your bile really isn't flowing, something is blocking it.
Click on 'recommended messages' and read some of the posts (maybe you've already done this)...many people get piles of dark green sludge out! Hopefully that will happen on your 2nd flush.
One thing...you said you had pain on your left side? The gallbladder/liver is on the right! ?? Do you feel pain after you eat fatty meals? (right side...or radiating up the back, shoulder pain?) You might need a
Bowel Cleanse if you have pain on your left. But definitely get flushing first so you can see if you've got stones.
But...I wonder why your doctor thought you needed to get your gallbladder out if your pain was on the left? hmmmmm...
Talk to you again...
Tracey