TLDR: Take Bile Pills with meals. This post is a modified version of my entirely positive review of a specific brand of bile acid caplets.
Several years ago, I’m not even sure how many, I developed chronic cholecystitis. The negative impact on my life had been hard to articulate. I had no insurance. I had no recourse but to completely wrap my eating choices around what would not cause me excruciating pain. (Rice became a dear and lifelong friend.) The ER simply gives you pain meds and sends you home, everything else gets treated like recreational surgery. Thus I was stuck with truly unfair levels of fear and pain.
I came to literally fear and obsess over food. Then came Obamacare and finally surgery was possible for a serf like me. But that too terrified me due to potential complications and the one way nature of the solution. My aunt for example got the surgery and it did not cure her symptoms and wished she could undo the procedure.
I searched for alternate treatments and read every wiki relevant to the organ and its products. This is where I discovered that bile is 97% water, and the rest bile salts. I searched and hoped humanity would sell me these salts because I figured if I preload my system with the salts my need to make my own bile would be diminished and as a result I would not get attacks.
This. Proved. True.
Over the past several days (at the time of the original review) I have thoroughly tested my body with foods I know for a fact to be fool proof triggers for gal attacks. Not only do I feel no pain in the organ, I feel no tension, or anything else. It is as if the organ has been completely repaired.
I am metabolizing my food better. It takes less to fill me and I have more energy. And ZERO pain!
One tablet before any intake that I know comes with fat and I am so far 100% certain to not have gal tension, much less an ache or a full blown attack.
I’m confident with proper diet this substance will allow my gal bladder to recover. But even if it doesn’t, my situation is wildly improved.
Update: Three months in, still no attacks. I’ve found it’s good to try and take it in the middle of the meal. It still works either way but if you take it early you can get cramping etc similar to gastric dumping, and if you take it at the end you’ll taste it and might still get tension.
I wish I could have twice as many caplets at half the volume for the same price. Still, I’d give ten stars if I could. I can eat again.
Update 2015-06-28 0105 AM: Six months in and things are even better than before. By taking the load off my gal bladder it would appear I’m allowing it to heal and shrinking my own stones. I now have to buy the salts even less frequently as my normal tolerance for foods return. Still very much a 10 star product in my view, and a clear reason for me to never fully trust or rely the FDA and medical establishment again. Why? Because finding/deducing this cure myself and on amazon and not because of a doctor’s advice speaks volumes about how badly the system is broken.
I take this personally because this is a life changing substance for me and I can’t possibly be alone. It literally saved an organ, and I suspect if it were more widely known lives would be saved because sometimes people die during gal bladder removal surgery, and that surgery might have been avoided by simply taking one of these 22cent caplets with every extremely fatty meal.
My required intake has dropped significantly because the load taken off my organs has it would seem allowed them to recover to a noticeable degree. I only really need one every other day on average now. It is hard to articulate the degree of positive impact this has had on my life.
The risks of gal bladder surgery are real and serious. And there’s no going back once it’s done. Doctors should be recommending this before surgery, and only considering surgery if this doesn’t work or something.
Update 2016-01-16 0929 AM: I suspect this will be my last update because things are unchanged and that is magnificent. I don’t get gal aches anymore unless I truly over indulge. And if I do get them I can just take one of these and basically give it a little time. This stuff changed my life. I just can’t say enough good things.
