I think my gallstone problem was caused by wheat not pregnancy. I'm better now.

2007- 1 hour attack, went to urgent care, trigger rapid weight loss postpartum

2009- 24 hour attack, ultrasound revealed gallbladder that looked like a bag of marbles, the stones moved freely, gallbladder hurt for one month. trigger rapid weight loss postpartum

2010- chronic gallbladder pain started, occasional gallbladder attacks about 1-3 hours, triggers mainly hydrogenated fats which I ate very rarely, but always reacted to.

May 2011- 30 hour attack, trigger red food dye in devils food cake-LOTS of it (don't eat that stuff folks!), ultrasound showed a large hollow gallbladder with a pile of calcified stones at the bottom, the calcified stones would not move (indicating the gallbladder was not hollow but actually congested with uncalcified stones as well as the calcified ones, there was nowhere for the calcified stones to move.) Gallbladder hurt for one year, right side of abdomen swollen for a year.

August 2011, purchased Andreas Moritz "Liver and Gallbladder Flush", I flushed once a month for seven months. The first month didn't produce many stones. the second through fifth flush had a lot of liver stones , but nothing calcified. the sixth flush was almost all calcified stones. The seventh flush didn't produce many stones and then I got pregnant and quit flushing.
I continued to have chronic gallbladder pain, but much less often, less severe and no more attacks!

March 2012, Not related to gallbladder at all, I identified an intolerance to wheat and stopped eating it. Within two weeks I was off Sugar (I've been trying to do this for years and going off wheat seemed to take away the cravings, so it was easy to quit Sugar too.)

about a month later I realized that my gallbladder inflammation was gone, had been gone for awhile! My right abdomen had been swollen for a year and was back to normal. My gallbladder didn't feel like a big rock sitting under my ribcage anymore, I couldn't even find it! It didn't seem to matter what I ate anymore, even bad fats (not that I recommend them!) After three months of no wheat I started wondering if not eating wheat was just me following a fad, so I started eating wheat again, immediately my gallbladder pain/inflammation flared up. I quit wheat and the gallbladder issue disappeared too. I hope a combination of wheat free and flushing will keep me gallbladder pain free for life. (Wheat free is helping with other health issues too, this was an unexpected side benefit)

I was young, thin, and ate the ideal gallbladder friendly diet, so why did I have such serious gallbladder disease?

My first attack happened in my early thirties, I've never gained a pound in my life, I'm mostly a vegetarian, I've always eaten whole grains, I drink green smoothies everyday, I wondered why I was walking around with gallbladder disease. My only risk factor was that I've had several babies and at first my attacks always happened during the rapid weight-loss post partum. I read one theory that gallbladder problems can be triggered by food allergies such as eggs and pork. I watched and watched, but I don't think anything on the allergy list including eggs or pork was my problem. I decided my best bet was to reduce Sugar intake so my body would have less chance to form cholesterol and therefore fewer stones (yes there is Science to that). Unfortunately I craved sugar incessantly and even if I quit sugar, I didn't know how to get my gallbladder healthy again. I'm convinced now that in my case it was the wheat. My best guess is that my gallbladder didn't pump right when I was reacting to wheat, so sludge sat there and stones formed. The combination of flushing and no wheat seems to be helping tremendously. Also, I am currently pregnant which has always exacerbated the gallbladder problem in the past (couldn't eat fats), but it doesn't feel like a problem at all this time around.


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