You know there exists medication that can help the gall bladder work better, and maybe even dissolve gallstones? (If they're the cholesterol type and not the calcium-deposit type). Ursodeoxycholic acid. It's one of the natural bile acids that your body should be producing anyway. People with gallstones generally don't produce enough of it, which is how the stones build up.
I've been taking it for several years, and my last ultrasound showed that the stones had virtually gone. Started off on 450 mg per night, now on 150 mg and going to drop that to 75 mg soon.
Also, the rather cheap antispasmodic Buscopan, sold for IBS, is not bad at fending off gall bladder attacks if you know that you've eaten too much fat in a meal. The drug in it is hyoscine-N-butylbromide.
I get annoyed with surgeons who see everything as a surgical problem.
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Date: 2009-06-29 05:36 pm (UTC)I've been taking it for several years, and my last ultrasound showed that the stones had virtually gone. Started off on 450 mg per night, now on 150 mg and going to drop that to 75 mg soon.
Also, the rather cheap antispasmodic Buscopan, sold for IBS, is not bad at fending off gall bladder attacks if you know that you've eaten too much fat in a meal. The drug in it is hyoscine-N-butylbromide.
I get annoyed with surgeons who see everything as a surgical problem.