Please go through this ! Its is for folks who have less Gallbladder function

These notes are copied from a research on how ursodeoxycholic acid or a mixture of chenodeoxycholic acid can help with GB function to normal. Any one who want to remove the GB, should try this for 5 to 6 months and decide if you want to remove gb or not .

Research results:

In total, 275 patients received DISIDA scans from March 2012 to May 2016. Seven patients were excluded because they were less than 18 years old. Four patients were excluded from the analysis because of poor medical records. Another 192 patients were excluded because they had an organic cause for the symptoms or abnormal laboratory test results. The organic causes included gallstones, sludge in the GB, GB polyps, GB adenomyomatosis, malignancy of the GB or bile duct, cholecystitis or cholangitis, pancreatitis, peptic ulcer disease, and reflux esophagitis. Fifty-three patients were excluded because their symptoms were acute or episodic, in the right upper quadrant or other abdominal locations, or they had symptoms inappropriate for FD. Another one patient was excluded due to insufficient symptom duration (<2 months) for the Rome IV criteria, although other conditions met the criteria (Fig. 2).[Figure 2]Figure 2

Finally, 18 patients had symptoms compatible with the Rome IV criteria for diagnosing FD and all corresponded to RFD (Table 1). Of these, 10 had epigastric pain syndrome (EPS, a subgroup of FD; epigastric pain, and/or epigastric burning), 3 had postprandial distress syndrome (PDS, the other subgroup of FD; postprandial fullness and/or early satiation), and the other 5 had both epigastric pain and postprandial fullness (overlap). Three of these patients did not revisit our hospital after undergoing the initial DISIDA scan (lost to follow-up); 2 of those had normal GB function and the other had GB dyskinesia. Of the remaining 15 patients whose symptoms met the FD criteria, 8 had normal GB function according to the initial DISIDA scan, so no follow-up DISIDA scan was performed. GB dyskinesia was demonstrated on the initial DISIDA scan in the other 7 patients. We prescribed 1 or 2 choleretic and litholytic drugs, such as ursodeoxycholic acid, Rowachol (terpene mixture), or a mixture of chenodeoxycholic acid and ursodeoxycholic acid for all 7 patients with GB dyskinesia. Mean duration from the initial DISIDA scan to the follow-up DISIDA scan was 5.6 months. The symptoms of 4 of these 7 patients disappeared after GB function normalized at the follow-up DISIDA scan. The symptoms of 1 of them disappeared despite persistent GB dyskinesia at the follow-up DISIDA scan. Symptoms and GB dyskinesia persisted at the follow-up DISIDA scan in another one patient. None of the patients had persistent symptoms despite normalization of GB dyskinesia at the follow-up DISIDA scan. The other one patient in whom the symptoms disappeared refused to undergo a follow-up DISIDA scan, so GB function when symptoms disappeared was unknown. Hence, FD symptoms were demonstrated to be caused by GB dyskinesia in 4 of 18 patients (Fig. 3).

Interesting to read.  I will check about the medications for dissolving gallstones but I read they needed to be small?   None of the doctors have discussed it & I wonder if it's even done in Canada?!  

Please give a try before removing gallbladder.Its available in all countries.

Keren  My biggest gall stone was 17mm but I don't know if you read my previous postings and I don't know the size of the other 4 stones. I do know that after a maximum of a year the biggest was then 10mm.

So if I had taken another 6 months to a year of Ursodioxycholic acid I feel confident the two that are left would have been dissolved or would have been small enough for them to be 'passed' into the system.

I took it upon myself to stop the Urso because I had an episode of taking a couple of months at least strong antibiotics so I had plenty to think about and my doctors did not give any advice re taking both and because I did not have any symptoms and knew that my gall bladder was working OK I did what I though best and it proved to be right.

I am appauled by the lack of exactness and expertise by so called experts on the subject of the gall bladder or any other organ of the body in this scientific age. It seems that the specializing of all branches of care of the human body seems to have gone downhill when it should have gone in  the opposite direction.  There have been plenty of wonderful improvements in health but there is much room still for improvement. This is confirmed by the fact that the claims on the NHS for a year amount I believe to about £8 million!   Somebody somewhere is not doing what they should do are they?

My experiences for decades as a patient have been excellent to abysmal and when the care was abysmal I took to getting antibiotics to cure myself & I thought at the time that should never happen.

I live in the UK but ordered tablets off the net and was promptly questioned by a doctor in the USA.

She was very nice and said she thought that the antibiotics I'd orderes were very necessary for me and my symptoms yet I was flatly refused by a male GP and then a lady GP for a prophylacic course of tablets.  On top of getting better I was rebuked for what I did merely because they were sweeping the problem they had created under the carpet.

Shame on them and any doctor of their ilk and those who lack expertise.