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does a low functioning gall bladder get better

Hi,

I have had a Hida scan that showed my ejection rate at 16%. I have a prescription for levsin which helps quite a bit. I am wondering if it is normal for the symptoms of pain and nausea to come and go. They are not as severe as they were a few weeks ago. I am attempting to follow a pretty bland diet which does help.

I am scheduled to have my gall bladder out on Nov. 29th. Is it possible that my gall bladder is getting better on its own and I don't need the surgery?

Thanks
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I've enjoyed reading the posts in this thread.  I had 3 random episodes of vomiting and diarrhea during September...on the 3rd, the 9th and the 24th but no pain other than sometimes feeling bloated in my upper abdomen.  My gallbladder ultrasound was fine...no stones...but it did show some fatty liver.  Hida scan showed 16% functioning and PCP recommended a surgical consult which is coming up this week.  I'm not eager to rush into surgery, even of the laparoscopic kind but will see what he recommends.  I've felt fine since 9/24.  I'm curious as to whether anyone had the surgery and now wishes that they hadn't done so.  I know my mother had lots of problems with diarrhea after her gall bladder was removed but that was years ago.
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Surgery was the best decision I ever made. No more problems. No more pain. No more issues at all!  Simple procedure and almost no recovery time. Do it! I am SO happy I did.
I just got mine out a week and a half ago. I have been sick for months and they couldn't find anything tested my gallbladder and it was only working at 18%. They did the surgery plus found and removed a lot of scare tissue I had organs attached to my adominal wall that they separated and fixed a few other things. I can tell you the shoulder pain nausea fevers everything is gone I'm glad I did it. Good luck
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I took every  test know to man all negative ! I  was felling fine and then I did a parasite cleanse the  Seven Forests Omphalia 11  I only took it for a few days I wish I hever had because I noticed on fourth day  my stomach on the right side and  liver  gallbladder began to burn for days  I wonder if this stuff is dangerous the  side effects I read it can be  toxic and I wonder if it just caused inflammation to my stomach and liver gallbladder  
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For gallbladder to return to normal you can work closely with and ND they can help but I do recall one day my ND saying that if an organ is truly diseased and is causing a cascade of effects on the body and you cannot bring it back it is best to consider removing it so the energy is freed up to completely heal the body to it normal healthy state. I was super sick everything pointed to by abdomen well had  tests and exploratory surgery everything was normal  I  changed dentist and went to a holistic dentist had him look at my root canals since rr I read they all leak infection and can weaken the a comprised person to point of death.I had both extracted one was  infected all the way into my jaw ...I had no real symptoms except when I got ill a few of my teeth became sensitive now all four mercury filling will all be replaced with porcelain, My intergrative MD is not ruling out that an infected root canal can effects other organs and  caused chronic appendicitis I have all the symptoms Dr Prices work in the 1930's was remarkable in making this point through his case studies
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Hi there,

I had a low functioning gallbladder (10%). I felt just awful for about 2 months straight. By the time I finally went to the doctor to take the test, I was actually starting to improve by then. But the doctor saw my 10% function and said my gallbladder needs to go. I told him that I was starting to feel better everyday and he laughed and said I would be back for that gallbladder surgery. By the way, what triggered that whole thing was my diet. I only ate pizza from a chain resteraunt for a month straight before the pain started. Looking back on that now...how stupid!  So I did end up having a full recovery (I think I just had alot of stones jammed in there or something). About 5 years went by perfectly fine. Then I did a parasite cleanse and my gallbladder problems all came back. But I think I just ticked off the parasites and they travelled/multiplied and made my problem worse. Where I scewed up here, was I was using the "Clarkia" parasite cleanse and was geting very great results. I thought I was being smart and went to the doctor for the medicine parasite killer to do the job faster. And that did absolutely nothing and then I made the parasites immune to the Clarkia tincture. Another mistake. Turns out that if you have many metal dental fillings, the parasites don't respond to the doctors parasite medicines. Wish he would have told me that :)
So I've done 6 liver/gallbladder flushes now looking for relief from the constant pain in my upper right abdomen. 1,000's of stones come out everytime. But there seems to be no end. I've read that the average person has to do at least 6 flushes and a badly congested person needs to do as many as 20, and then just do 1 a year as maintenence.  I've had 1 flush where nothing came out, but don't be fooled. Lots more came out on others even after that false one. So I'm continuing on and now am going to re-start the parasite detox again simultaneously while doing my monthly liver/gallbladder flush's. The Clarkia was terrific, but I'm going to buy the Hulda Clark one from her son this time just to see if it's even better. In the meantime, I also had all my metal dental fillings removed and replaced with PORCELAIN and have had a root canal removed. Root canals are very bad and cause a low grade infection in your body all the time. I had these unhealing red open sores on my shoulders and neck. They had been there for a decade and I never knew why. Within 1 day of having my root canal removed, they faded away. That was the cause all along!  And I'm doing a metal detox now too (detoxamin). I think you have a harder time gettting rid of parasites if you have metal dental fillings. They thrive off that. So I've heard that obese people and people with alot of dental fillings have heavy parasite loads more that others. Just wanted to mention that in case this will help someone. So now that my metal fillings are out, I'm going to do the parasite detox again, continue the flushes, and continue the metal detox. That's my story... Hope that info helps someone :)
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hey i agree it's not necessarily food for me anyways its more stress. i had another abdominal sono yesterday and they said other than lots of gas pockets all my organs look good no stones anywhere and then also had an h pylori test also negative.. wondering now if it's worth it to get HIDA scan or not.
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I have a friend who is 27 years old and she is having gall bladder apparently, but she says the doctor is recommending surgery because she is showing 19 percent funtion. But she also says he has not tried anything else at all. That seems absurd to me, I mean shouldn't there be other things ruled out and also can anyone tell me of an alternative that has worked for them before she goes under the knife or laser or whatever.
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