6th March 2007
The medical establishment seems to love taking out gallbladders the way they used to love taking out tonsils the way they used to love leeches and bloodletting and lobotomies and Lord knows what else.
My former pastor was a young man. He started feeling run down, etc. What's the first thing they did? Take out his gallbladder. What was really going on? Acute Myelocyitic Leukemia.
I had (though drinking no grapefruit juice) assembled dietary components that created a synthetic grapefruit juice effect that caused me to have a chronic overdose of my cholesterol drug, Lescol, even though it clears the body through three metabolic pathways and thus shouldn't be as likely to be problematic when the patient drinks grapefruit juice. The lemon/lime sparkling water I was drinking blocked all three, and when I added OJ on occasion, the chronic OD became a much higher OD and resulted in acute health problems. Where did they manifest themselves? In the gallbladder (I felt like I had the flu and started passing black pigment stones). I never went to the doctor while this was going on (though I was close to needing the E.R.), or they would surely have yanked it out.
I don't think it's a disaster to have your gallbladder out, I just think doctors are like five-year-olds with hammers they get shiny quarters for using, and everything looks like a nail to them.
Long-term antibiotics could be one answer.
But there could be other answers too.
If you picked this up early while you were on vacation, it's possible the things you were doing were protective, and once they were withdrawn the symptoms struck in force.
My former pastor was a young man. He started feeling run down, etc. What's the first thing they did? Take out his gallbladder. What was really going on? Acute Myelocyitic Leukemia.
I had (though drinking no grapefruit juice) assembled dietary components that created a synthetic grapefruit juice effect that caused me to have a chronic overdose of my cholesterol drug, Lescol, even though it clears the body through three metabolic pathways and thus shouldn't be as likely to be problematic when the patient drinks grapefruit juice. The lemon/lime sparkling water I was drinking blocked all three, and when I added OJ on occasion, the chronic OD became a much higher OD and resulted in acute health problems. Where did they manifest themselves? In the gallbladder (I felt like I had the flu and started passing black pigment stones). I never went to the doctor while this was going on (though I was close to needing the E.R.), or they would surely have yanked it out.
I don't think it's a disaster to have your gallbladder out, I just think doctors are like five-year-olds with hammers they get shiny quarters for using, and everything looks like a nail to them.
Long-term antibiotics could be one answer.
But there could be other answers too.
If you picked this up early while you were on vacation, it's possible the things you were doing were protective, and once they were withdrawn the symptoms struck in force.