Also, as an aside, I do know two people who naturally got rid of their gallstone issues. It is, most definitely, possible.
I understand things a bit better now. The operation yesterday was aborted. They did not take out any part of my gall bladder. The reason was two fold. The gallbladder was too inflamed. There was too much scarring. They could not remove the gall bladder laparoscopically. They would have had to make a large incision and cut some stomach muscles to do that. I did not give them permission to do that.
So today they installed a drain for the gall bladder. I’ll do antibiotics for two weeks and leave the drain in for six to eight weeks. The hope is that my gallbladder will be healed and the bile duct will drain properly. There is an 80% chance of that happening. At that point I have two options. I can either have the gallbladder removed laparoscopically — or I can change my diet to minimize the chances of gallstones. There is a 20% chance that they can’t remove the gall bladder laparoscopically. Then they would do the more invasive surgery.
The formal name for my gall bladder issue is cholecystitis. The recommended treatment for it is gall bladder removal followed by a keto diet. If my gall bladder is healed— i do have the option of not removing gall bladder. But the it I’m told that to minimize the chances of a recurrence— I need to minimize all oils in my diet—not just bad oils. That means I’d have to cut back on olive oil and coconut oil ghee and grab fed butter and grass fed sometimes unpasteurized whole milk
I’ll have to do more research on this. Please do post whatever info you run across. Tia.