Dont have the surgery.
I have had severe GB trouble most of my life.
When you travel take some Epsom Salts with you and take a table spoon or a little more if you feel an attack. Also try and stay oiled with some good natural oils like olive. Check out Andres Mortiz site on here and search epsom salt. Wish I had known about ES years sooner.It saved me. Have a nice trip.

Hi. I had a stone in my bile duct and had the surgery Dec. 30, 2004. I didn't try cleansing. I was breastfeeding at the time and wasn't sure it would work. I feel okay without my gb and don't have any complications. I was scared to do the surgery, especially after reading some experiences on this site, but it turned out okay. Of course some people would say I could have complications down the road, I don't know. But I wouldn't rush into it. I probably would have tried the cleansing if I wasn't breastfeeding. The whole concept of cleansing was new to me at the time of my surgery and I didn't know anyone who did it. I wouldn't say I regret my surgery, at least now I don't.

Good luck with your decision.

Kim

Don't.

Ok, first let me be frank and say you need to rethink what your priorities are.

Your health should always be number one.

You can’t do anyone any good, much less your family if you have health problems.

Removing your GB is NOT a healthy thing to do.

You have so much info to try to breakdown within an unreasonably short time I’ll give you “my” condensed version.

1. You could die from the surgery. (Why this is overlooked by most beats me)

2. In my opinion there are 3 main categories of problems.
a. All your problems stem from congestion within the GB.
b. The congestion is within the liver.
c. The person has both conditions with varying degrees of congestion.

This is why some people have the same problems after GB surgery.
It was their liver or combination of both. Removing the GB didn’t clear up all the problems.

Best case with having the GB removed is you having to be careful with what and the amounts you eat.

As the problem has been presented to you as solely due to the 1.3cm stone, you might want to rethink this.

Perhaps you might want to review posts by hanna.

She has a 2.5cm stone and thanks to Liver-Flush she has enough overhead that this large stone now has no effect on her.

Meaning that the Doctor might have been right or might have been wrong about what is really causing you problem.

How would you feel having your GB removed only to find out it’s a congested liver?

Doctors can only “see” hard calcified stones.

It’s then a short jump to the conclusion that the GB needs to be removed.

But there may be sufficient overhead in the GB like hanna’s so your true problem is within the liver.

Start doing LF’s and follow 64369’s advice about ES is your best shot.

IMHO

Savagegrace

I will tell you from my experience that I tried everything under the sun from remedies to drinking recommendations from others. Nothing worked and in the end I had my gallbladder removed in December. But don't let that discourage you if you don't want the surgery, what didn't work for me might work for you.

If you have tried everything and the pain is keeping you awake or prevents you from functioning like it did me then you might need to look into the surgery option. I can say this, since it was removed I have been able to go back to the life I had before the attacks started happening 3 years ago. My gallbladder was full of stones which I passed and they came back over and over again.

I also did the Liver-Flush after I went to the ER 3 years ago and was told it was all in my head and it wasn't my gallbladder by the doctor there (he recommended the LF, believe it or not). I know my body though and after the Liver-Flush I had stones removed. But they came back and after 2 and a half years of trying to fix the problem was when I had the surgery.