--- In gallstones@y..., Tishri7@a... wrote:
<< Good, luck Gina, with your op. I believe they always do the
keyhole
surgery now, which is
a lot easier to recover from. >>
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Hello,
glad to find out that you're doing better. I have tried not to write
about
this, but here it goes.
No! GB surgery does not always help at all, and the so-
called "keyhole"
surgery is not always easy. I did a survey of friends when I first
started
having this problem with my GB to find out the pros and cons of GB
surgery.
Here's the scoop.

I just recently called a good friend of mine who I worked at the
hospital
with for 8 1/2 years. She had GB surgery after putting it off for a
long
time. She just didn't wish to have surgery and tried a healthy diet
and
never even heard of the cleanse. If she had heard of it at that
time, I'm
100 percent sure she would have tried it. Anyway, she started off by
saying
her digestion is just terrible. She can't even eat the foods that
she loves
anymore like lettuce, she can't handle it. So now salads are out.
It messes
up her digestion horribly. Also, she still has pain and she has
diarrhea all
the time now. Always has the runs after everything she eats, even
just
snacks.

Plus, she couldn't have the keyhole surgery, but had to have the
major one.
Then she went on to tell me about her 30-year-old daughter who had GB
surgery
not too long after her. Her daughter had the keyhole surgery, and
after the
surgery while she was at home recovering, just kept getting sicker
and
sicker. She had started leaking bile into her abdomen and it was
making her
very ill and turning yellow from the bile. Well, they had to
careflight her
to a major hospital in a big city, I won't say which. Then she had
to stay
in ICU for several weeks to get her better before they could do a
second
surgery on her to find the leaking.
Yes, she's out and fine now after a very long illness, and it took
her time
to build up any strength. She really was fortunate they could find
the leak
and fix it.

Then I've talked to a lady at the health food store that I frequently
go to.
She had GB surgery several years ago. Her exact words to me
are: "If I had
just known what I now know, I would never, never have had the
surgery, ever!"

See, she's all messed up. She can't eat so many things now it's
unreal and
still has pain. She drinks 1 pint or more of aleo vera juice every
day cuz
of her stomach and the immense about of acid in it since the
surgery. She
can't eat wheat, lettuce and many other things. I'll ask her how
something
is, she says, "Oh, I can't have that either!" She said to me, do
what you
can to avoid the surgery.

This is just a couple of people. My husband actually has talked to
one
person who is glad they had the GB surgery. I haven't talked to
anyone who
is glad. I'm sure there are some people who are glad, just I haven't
talked
to them.

I will also say that in Dr. Cabot's books, she explains that those
who must
have GB surgery have an extremely difficult time with their livers,
having
fatty livers. It is just almost something that is going to happen to
you if
you have your GB removed. Then you MUST always be on a special diet
to fight
that. This is something that modern-day medicine -- if one wishes to
call it
medicine -- doesn't tell you. So be prepared.

Sorry to put this on anyone who is having surgery. It's something to
think
about, and I would be prepared. There is no such thing as "an easy
surgery,"
never. All surgery is hard on your system. I know, I've had surgery
several
times in the past. Nothing is ever the same again, so weigh
everything
before you do it, please.

I have a friend who is probably in his 60s now. He had a severe gall
bladder
attack over 10 years ago. This is the first person that I ever heard
about
the cleanse from and it stuck in my mind. I talked to him back in
about
July, and he's still doing his cleanses every year. Sometimes he has
to do
it twice, but he hasn't had anymore attacks.
Take care,
Susie
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