I discovered this forum a few months ago and have been reading, but this is my first post.

Brief history... I was fine until Dec 2007 when I injured my back. The doctor put me on two pain killers. One caused stomach ulcers. The other apparently made my gallbladder stop functioning.

An ultrasound in March 2008 revealed that my gallbladder was filled with sludge and had “some” stones. I had reduced the fat in my diet because I was having problems digesting fat. The technician that did the ultrasound suggested that it might just be that the low-fat diet had left my gallbladder with nothing to do. The doctor admitted that mine was not a textbook case. I only had one episode that I would call a gallbladder attack. My main symptoms were the problems digesting fat and nausea. The doctor suggested removal of my gallbladder, even though he could not guarantee that it would relieve my symptoms. I declined that option, so now he doesn't want to hear from me. I have been researching alternatives which is how I arrived here.

I have slowly improved since then. The back's okay now, the ulcers are healed, the gallbladder's functioning again, but I still generally feel crummy. I still have bouts of nausea, weakness and dizziness, I'm tired all the time and recently have begun having unexplained anxiety attacks.

I think I need to do some liver/gallbladder cleansing, but think I might need to do some parasite and colon cleansing first. I have found a source in this country (UK) for the parasite cleanse, but I cannot find ornithine on its own... only in combination with arginine. As I understand it, I need the ornithine on its own to absorb any excess ammonia in my system to help me sleep during the cleansing process. I'm a little concerned about massive amounts of ammonia being dumped into my bloodstream without anything to counteract it. Is that dangerous?

And I've been reading about mental/emotional effects of the herbs, particularly wormwood. I'm already in a fairly precarious state emotionally due to all the illness and upsetting symptoms. I don't want to make matters worse! I admit that I'm pretty much a baby and don't feel like I can take much more... but I've got to do SOMETHING.

I'm planning to start with at least a couple of days of colon cleansing... have actually started that as of today... before starting the parasite cleanse and then do them both for two weeks, take a week off the parasite cleanse while continuing the colon cleanse, then another two weeks of both. Somewhere along the line I know I'm going to have to find the nerve to do a liver flush, but I'm not sure when I should do that and I'm hesitant to try it because I don't know how it's going to make me feel.

I am just so overwhelmed by all of this... like it's too much to tackle all at once, yet if I'm going to do this I want to do it right. I do feel like I need it because I have so many symptoms of parasitic infection and if I've got them I want them OUT.

This is a plea for help and encouragement, but please, be patient and be gentle with me.

Thanks,
B