Knowing for 24 yrs that I had gallbladder problems and not knowing what to do about it besides surgery, led to some unpleasant experiences in life!

Last spring, things got bad! The bloated tight feeling, feeling like I was dying from eating some of my favorite foods/cheddar cheese!!!! By fall, I knew I had to do something, since I had no health insurance, I began looking at cleansing. I opted for Clark's method and on New Years Eve weekend, my quest to take my health back began.

I didn't have anybody to lead me in this, I had no idea about healing crises, but this day! at the end of my 6th cleanse, I'm gonna make it!!!

Probably here, I heard someone refer to liver/gallbladder cleansing being like peeling an onion, and it is exactly that.

People here want descriptions on what it's like. No 2 have been even vaguely similar for me:

First cleanse, I passed olive green stones from the size of a baby pea to bigger than 50cents pieces (around 300 total) and an amazing amount of creamy white chaff.

Second cleanse, it was most pea colored and sized stones, around 200 of them.

Thrid cleanse, must have been unremarkable cuz I have no idea what was different.

Fourth cleanse, I sat here 24 hours later wondering if I was headed for the hospital after all my effort. I had suddenly stopped passing anything, no tapering off, it just stopped, and the familiar dull ache was WORSE!!!! I had added gold coin grass to my efforts, how could something big enough to get stuck be there?? I do my ES and evoo/grapefruit juice on Friday nights, so I'm purging on Saturday. Sunday night was when I felt that I was in trouble. I was able to go to work on Monday, but I was miserable! I planned to get thru the week and do another flush over the weekend (I'd been cleansing every 4th week). Tuesday morning as I sat playing backgammon online, I heard that familiar sound from under my ribs and new to be heading for the bathroom. I had taken nothing additional, but i passed a black stone the size of a large grape! Just a few minutes later, I passed another one like that and a heap of black sand. I can only think that a clump(?) of old stuff had gotten caught coming out and stopped my cleansing on Saturday, then finished breaking up from the GCG and there was enough pressure behind it from the cleansing pressure to purge. I can tell you I had OH SWEET RELIEF! I felt better than I had felt in months, maybe even years. A few days of soreness was the only pain left.

I reckon I got cocky!!! I'd been eating organic all year. I felt so good that I decided I'd have a hotdog, chili and all, and an order of fries, 3 weeks later. People, I thought I was going to die! I spent the next 5 weeks as sick with my gall bladder as I'd ever been! This isn't taking a pill and feeling better, this is a life style, one that I am now commited to!

Fifth cleanse was coming up. The very thought of the ES made me feel nausious for days before hand. I knew I'd probably be getting to more large stones and needed my bile ducts to be open as they could be. I had seen people talking about apple juice, so i decided to mix the ES in apple juice instead of water. Not so bad! Not something I'd recommend with dinner, but sure does taste better than ES and water! I had to pick daughter and grandson up on Friday night after midnight, so I also changed the timing of my drinks so i could take the EOO and go to bed immediately. It was the gentlest cleanse I've had and still got out close to 200 stones.

Sixth cleanse started with eating a huge bowl of fruit all day thurs (sheesh, talk about starting clean!) I drank almost a gallon of organic apple juice Thurs and Fri (friend at work made the mistake of offering me a piece of her apple as we worked...if looks could kill...) I used the apple juice for the ES and will most likely continue to do so. All of this to say this: I'd seen 1200 Gallstones until today, yet, this was very different. Todays stones were the tan ones, only saw maybe one green one. There weren't so many actual stones like before, but what seemed like pounds of sand. Today, there were loads of chaff again (hadn't seen it like that since the first flush), but instead of the creams white, it was a dark tan. I don't know if this is old chaff that was deep inside or if the apple juice colored it (BUT it was darker than the juice). I'd like to hear y'alls' ideas on this.

I've seen people here talk about being frightened by this procedure and want to say this: I have experienced NOTHING cleasing that comes anywhere close to the pain of a sick gallbladder! Using the ES, you're only aware of the stones moving if you're very still and "listening" to your body. A hotdawg and french fries hurt me much worse than epsome salts and olive oil!!!!

I first knew I had Gallstones when I was 28. At 52, I don't expect them to just disappear (would be nice tho :D) I'm in this for the long haul, I've seen here that some of you have done 20 of these puppies!! IF THAT'S WHAT IT TAKES!!!!