[Trilby]

I need to have a cholecystectomy but I'd rather not. I was up this morning from 12:30-4:00 am. with the wonderfully painful sensation of a gall bladder attack--I think a stone must have gotten into the common bile duct and worked its way down and, GAWD, it hurt. Then, I threw up. I googled a bit and found that some people do what is known as a gall bladder cleanse and they swear it got rid of their stones. One calls for a pint of olive oil, some lemon juice and V8. You're supposed to drink the olive oil two tablespoons at a time along with a tablespoon of lemon juice--the V8 is to sip if you think you're going to blow chunks. you do this until the olive oil/lemon is gone--about 4-4 1/2 hoursz. Then you go to sleep on your right side. In the morning you're supposed to have passed the stones! Does this seem nuts? I'm desperate to avoid that pain again.