I'm the world's champion chicken, Sandover. I always look ten times before I buy, and, if I decide to try something, I start very, very small...and gingerly.

I agree with you...something interesting is going on...several somethings.

It is quite wonderful to see.

Thanks for the heads up.

My best wishes,

Fledgling

I sure hope so! It is so full that I think I can no longer save documents I write. Waiting for a nice computer guy to show up...one who will stay for a week and show me the management stuff that others don't know how to teach...or that they don't really want to teach.

Wonder how much room is taken up by all these 'updates' from certain 'free' programs, or if they are just 'reading'.

But, I have them fooled. It is impossible for them to make sense out of what I write and 'search', and no one selling what I might buy.

For everyone becoming 'senior', soon you can just tell advertisers that you are 'broke'...and be believed! Gets you off 'lists' something wonderful!

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WT, there is something about me and peppermint, etc. I get a little headache that sometimes feels like a plate standing on edge in my head. Back right of my neck, back right corner of my jaw, behind a certain place in my right eyebrow, and so on.

I'm watching about a half dozen possible 'causes'. One might be that I have been addicted to mentholated tobacco. I have even thought that the peppermint may have actually been needed.

Changes are taking place daily, and that headache may have lightened permanently in the past few days.

Don't know if it is just because I am timid, but I try things quite gingerly, and tend to drop them for a while, and take them up again when I feel inclined. Somehow I feel I am learning a little about what is needed, when.

As for the 'stones', I seem to be able to tell which are larger, which are smaller, and generally where they move...when they do. I appreciate when I feel one 'scoot' from the gallbladder toward the stomach area, or part-way.

I've taken a small pinch of Epsom Salts in a little warm water, with food, a few times, but not experimented further.

I'll do that more earnestly when I next try my preferred herbal liver cleanse tea...which will likely be soon.

The first time on the tea was wildly successful in dropping about five stones from the liver to the gallbladder, but continued use did not move them out of the gallbladder.

I thought something was moving on out, a while later, but I saw no definite signs...such as changes in BM's, as I did with the very first major stone that left spontaneously with only dietary changes and a bumpy car ride.

I am getting much healthier, I can FEEL it.

I lost a friend to pancreatic cancer. One thing that she mentioned was major pain behind her collarbone...on one side, I believe.

Yesterday I read that oral gum disease is related to pancreas problems. Didn't read anything more than that.

You mention..."When the flow of bile is obstructed by a tumor, bile salts may be deposited in your skin, leading to intense itching."

Have you read anything about WHERE the itching/pruritis may occur? A few years ago I began having tiny, fiercely-itching blisters on my hands and feet, occasionally. This turned out to be a response to eating plants of the nightshade family...white potatoes, tomatoes, sweet peppers, eggplant, and, of course, tobacco.

I had one period of major itching rashes that seemed related to these foods, some penicillin-like substance, sand flies, and cat fleas. A cough happened, too, and some kind of dengue-like condition. I was not a happy camper, but I got on top of it by returning home and leaving off those foods for a while.

I can now eat a little tomato, peppers, and potatoes, fairly often, with no reactions. Tobacco is another story, and may be at the bottom of the whole problem.

Interestingly, my attraction to tobacco is far less intense in the past week, since energy work with a kinesiologist, and a modest increase in consumption of dried kelp.

I also finished a Humaworm cleanse December 15th. Amazing relief from ammonia was the only definitive reaction to this, except that it seems to keep on giving even this long after.

The repetitive low-grade headache keeps me from the 'in-between' herbals, except tiny pinches, sometimes.

I never feel any kind of 'ailment', just that my path to vibrant well-being is slow, winding, and very instructive to me.

Thank you very much for discussing this with me, White Tiger.

Oh yes, thank you for the diagram. I've also seen at least one that shows the common bile duct and the pancreatic duct entering the small intestine separately. Curious.

Fledgling