Re: Re:Gall Bladder good bye

[Guest guest]

I don't have a gall bladder anymore, mine was removed while I lived in

the mold apt, and it was majorly screwed up .. It was not diseased

before I moved in there.. my health was good before I moved into that

apartment.. That was just one of many things that literally fell apart

on me there..

Look, I'm not a doctor, but Cholestyramine sure as hell helps

ME..After I figured out what was making me sick, and after I had been

taking cholestyramine for a while and was clearly on teh road to

recovery, as part of my collecting my medical records, I touched base

with all of the doctors I had seen back then, including the surgeon

who had removed by gallbladder (and commented that it was one of the

more diseased and clogged up gallbladders that he had ever seen.. (He

was/is a very good surgeon, in general, my doctors were pretty good

with only two exceptions.. he is a distinguished professor of

surgery..)

So, when I was getting my records, we exchanged some email about my

discovery of mold in the building and apartment, and how I had gotten

really sick again, and how we had tried endlessly to get it fixed and

eventually had had to move, and how I had found cholestyramine to help

a lot. I explained the whole enterohepatic recirculation thing to

him, and included a PDF of the preprint of the time-series paper from

the Toxicological Sciences journal..

He wrote me back thanking me and he said that it was really

interesting and that he would be following the issue closely.. (,

he didn't say anything like what your PCP said, IMO, he implied quite

the opposite..)

So, here is what MY (I'm NOT a doctor- be aware of that..) current

thinking is on this.. the gallbladder, because its where bile is

stored, is perhaps ONE OF THE PARTS OF YOUR BODY THAT IS MOST LIKELY

TO BE HURT BY MOLD...

If your gallbladder is now gone, that seems to me to indicate that it

was removed BECAUSE it - and you, were ill, SO - you had problems

there..

SUCH as cholestasis.. (which according to Dr. S and many others,

including much vet research, can be caused by MYCOTOXIN OVERLOAD)

But of course, nobody sees that connection.. its TOO obvious..

[Guest guest]

Jill, you need to ask your DOCTOR... YOU NEED TO ASK YOUR DOCTOR..

In my case, the thing I could not ignore was the SUDDEN transition of

inflammation to *Excruciating Pain*

Pain so intense that I was literally going out of my mind and when I

called my doctor, they said, " you have to check into the emergency

room " , " I am calling them now to tell them to expect you " .

Luckily, I lived just a few blocks away from a hospital, but I was in

no shape to walk so I had to call a taxi..

The whole next week was a blur..

I have a very high pain tolerance, I have suffered a lot in various

ways in my life so I tend to suffer in silence. also at the time I had

a job that was pretty demanding and they did not know how to run

things without me..that was clear...I did not want to miss work, for

several years at the time I had not missed practically any work, but

there was no way I could ignore that..

I don't know if you have ever had any pain like that.. I certainly had

never up to that point..

So now I don't have a gall bladder..