hi Chris...I'm fairly new to this site. I wasn't around when you posted your post 7 months ago. What a story!! I'm glad to hear you're through the worst of it. That's terrible about the constant dull pain, though. Is there any way that you can revitalize your kidneys and your gallbladder. Like, concentrate on one of them at a time (not with vitamins, but with herbs?) for a few months...just making each one as healthy as it can be? I'm not sure about the kidneys (yet) but I know that to revitalize and regenerate the liver you could be taking a tincture of dandelion and milk thistle. (you're probably doing this already eh?) I think tincture form would be better that old pills... Anyway, I'd like to think that you can regenerate them, so you don't have to live with dull pain...and you can be superhealthy!! I'm sending healing energy your way...it's zipping and zapping to ya!