Re: New At This

[Guest guest]

Dear Collen,

Wellcome to the group. I hope that you will find some helpful

information here to follow your pathway to health.

Please go to the groups bookmark pages for various links. There are

also many cleansing recipe links and an FAQ link that may already

answer some of your questions.

It sounds as if you are on the right track to relieving your

gallbladder problems. I would like to add, however, not to expect an

overnight cure. It took a long time to make your stone and may take

a long time to disintegrate it.

When looking at the various flushes, you will notice that some of

them have Epsom Salts added todrinks before and after the flush.

These are to relax the bile ducts to inhibit stones from getting

stuck. If you decide to do this, I would highly recommend using pure

red grapefruit juice in place of the water. It really masks the

taste of the Epsom Salts.

So.....look through the bookmark links, question the archives (ex.

Gold Coin Grass is in there) and good luck!

Suzanne

> Hello. I have just joined this group. Yesterday I was informed,

after an ultrasound, that I have a large gallstone in my gallbladder.

I was told it is 2.3 cm. The doctor of course, told me the only

treatment is removal of the gallbladder.......

[Guest guest]

Colleen, There are cholesterol and calcium stones. I have passed what

I believe was a cholesterol stone that was just over an inch in size

which is about 2.5 cm. Go back a few days in messages and read Dale's

story. He has overcome gallstones and is living well today. If your

diet is poor at all, change it immediately. Do not eat any white

flour products or sugar. No hydrogenated fats in anything. I read on

www.curezone.com/gallstones that stones can reform in as little as

three days, which may be why as we continue to cleanse, we continue

to have them coming out. The Gold Coin Grass is a good idea. I am

going to start that myself next week. You can cleanse every two

weeks. I have done 11 cleanses and not had a problem with a stone

getting stuck, although I have heard of this happening but not to

anyone I know. I figured I would either have surgery or emergency

surgery, there was not much of a difference to me. Either way, it was

coming out. But I have been living this way for six months. I get

attacks when I eat something bad, usually something very greasy or

very fatty. I have no problem eating natural fats and don't

understand why, but I eat plenty of them as well as nuts and seeds. I

am now determined not to put anything unhealthy in my mouth as long

as it takes and have not had an attack in over two weeks. True

confessions I actually ate three cookies yesterday fully expecting an

attack and did not have one. I felt like that was progress. I made

the cookies with butter and whole grain flour. I am back on the

program today. Made my hubby take them to work. Dawn

PS. The Epsom salts help dilate the bile ducts and help the stones

pass.

Has anyone passed a stone this large? Does anyone have any

suggestions as to what I should do next, beyond what I am already

doing? I have no intentions of having the surgery, though I am a bit

concerned that the stone could become lodged in a duct or something

and I would find myself in some sort of emergency surgery situation.

>

>

> Thank you,

> Colleen

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Hi,

Anyone know how a calcium stone would form?

----- Original Message -----

From: " azdmarie " <nortons@...>

<gallstones >

Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 2:45 PM

Subject: Re: New At This

> Colleen, There are cholesterol and calcium stones. I have passed what

> I believe was a cholesterol stone that was just over an inch in size

> which is about 2.5 cm. Go back a few days in messages and read Dale's

> story. He has overcome gallstones and is living well today. If your

> diet is poor at all, change it immediately. Do not eat any white

> flour products or sugar. No hydrogenated fats in anything. I read on

> www.curezone.com/gallstones that stones can reform in as little as

> three days, which may be why as we continue to cleanse, we continue

> to have them coming out. The Gold Coin Grass is a good idea. I am

> going to start that myself next week. You can cleanse every two

> weeks. I have done 11 cleanses and not had a problem with a stone

> getting stuck, although I have heard of this happening but not to

> anyone I know. I figured I would either have surgery or emergency

> surgery, there was not much of a difference to me. Either way, it was

> coming out. But I have been living this way for six months. I get

> attacks when I eat something bad, usually something very greasy or

> very fatty. I have no problem eating natural fats and don't

> understand why, but I eat plenty of them as well as nuts and seeds. I

> am now determined not to put anything unhealthy in my mouth as long

> as it takes and have not had an attack in over two weeks. True

> confessions I actually ate three cookies yesterday fully expecting an

> attack and did not have one. I felt like that was progress. I made

> the cookies with butter and whole grain flour. I am back on the

> program today. Made my hubby take them to work. Dawn

>

> PS. The Epsom salts help dilate the bile ducts and help the stones

> pass.

>

> Has anyone passed a stone this large? Does anyone have any

> suggestions as to what I should do next, beyond what I am already

> doing? I have no intentions of having the surgery, though I am a bit

> concerned that the stone could become lodged in a duct or something

> and I would find myself in some sort of emergency surgery situation.

> >

> >

> > Thank you,

> > Colleen

> >

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

Welcome, Jillian!

Sorry that you have RA, especially in your youth. Do you have an

excellent rheumatologist? What medications do you take?

We'll try to help you any way we can.

I'll tell you where to go!

Mayo Clinic in Rochester

http://www.mayoclinic.org/rochester

s Hopkins Medicine

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org

[ ] New at this

Hi Everyone~

My name is Jillian and I am a 22 year old suffering with Rheumatoid

Arthritis. I was diagnosed at 16 and have been battling this " wonderful "

disease. My friend told me to join a support group to see if this might

help me get thru things that my friends can't help me with. I guess I

really don't know where to go from here. I am just trying to figure my

life out and trying to manage RA all in the same time. I guess just

knowing that other people are out there with the same problem is

reassuring. Dealing with this disease is not easy alone, so i figure

maybe talking to people might help.

Have a wonderful day and I will hopefully talk to someone soon.

Jillian

[Guest guest]

Thanks for the email. I know that there are many new breakthroughs and so I am

hoping with going to see the rhuematologist, for the 1st time since i was 16, I

am hoping that things will begin to turn around. So we will see what happens. I

am nervous, but at the same time I am excited because i need to change things in

my life and they need to start now. But i have to study. I hope that you have a

wonderful night and I will hopefully email and talk to you soon.

mormar46 <mormar46@...> wrote:Hi Jillian,

Welcome to this group, but sorry you had to start at such a young

age. On the plus side, however, there are many new breakthroughs

happening every day, and with your youth you may see something great

happen!

Support groups are the best thing that could ever happen for someone

with any sort of health challenge, and your friends were right to

encourage you to find one to help you with your RA. Friends and

family are wonderful, but unless you can talk with someone who knows

exactly how you are feeling, they just don't understand it

completely. and a are wonderful with tons of information,

and everyone else is very supportive and friendly and helpful, not to

mention sometimes downright funny at times.

Peace,

Judi