After sharing this with thousands of patients and physicians:
"It makes me angry. The lack of advice and concern. If it isn't curable by the pharmaceutical industry there's no profit, therefore no interest."
I understand that anger.
But here's what I need you to hear:
It wasn't your fault.
"I have always suspected my liver was struggling but what do I know, am not a doctor, just someone who lives with this and would have continued to be in the dark."
That is exactly what this is. Information you should have been given and weren't.
Your doctor wasn't wrong to monitor. They just weren't trained to address hepatic lymphatic congestion or bile quality restoration after cholecystectomy. Medical school teaches post-cholecystectomy management, dietary advice, monitoring protocols, referral pathways.
The hepatic bile quality deterioration and drainage failure that follows gallbladder removal barely appears in standard gastroenterology training.
They weren't looking in the wrong place out of negligence. They just weren't looking there at all.
The problem was never just the liver struggling.
It was being asked to do a job it was never designed to do, and the drainage system backing up under that compensatory load.
That's why the prescription medications didn't help.
That's why this does.