Hi Sue,
I’ve waited for your last appt. and am like you not surprised that it didn’t change anything. If her next suggestion is reflexology and your money’s getting tight, I’d recommend trying all kinds of self-applied treatments using youtube videos or your acupressure book.
I must say I never took acupressure or other self-applied treatments seriously, but now I didn’t have any choice trying it was a revelation. It’s so low barrier and cheap that it’s well worth considering. And getting to know our own bodies in this way is self-empowering and self-sufficient.
After learning and applying acupressure myself I hadn’t heard of self-applied reflexology yet. The ear acupressure my acupressurist was doing at the start of the manual session was reflexological, and as she helped me a lot I do think that must have been part of it, altho I’m not sure, praps just placebo, plus this coincidentally pointing her to ideas that she then treated further with body acupressure and other methods. I don’t care: it helped get my local pains down. She did show me a few reflexological and other acupressure tricks, but not much, so I was surprised how easy and effective acupressure is turning out for me.
So once again I consulted youtube for self reflexology, and sure enough here is an easy example massaging feet (with CBD oil) for foot and back pain (and that would mean it’s meant direct for the feet, but reflexological on the back too):
and this is the other end: I think pretty much the whole foot and up the leg two in 15 minutes, this is one I’m gonna start using some time:
Hand reflexology might be easier to try:
In contrast Bob & Brad’s self foot massage doesn’t try to be reflexological.
As regards Berg’s gall bladder hypothesis: I had another look for you and at the end Berg (a DC) does actually like I suspected mention that these ideas of his also apply to people without gall bladder. I think the reasoning is that a missing gall bladder is no different to a weak gall blddder and the liver needs all the more support: He there specifically for missing gall bladder recommends “purified bile salts” to replace the missing bile to break down the fats.
Aside from that he recommends acid cider vinegar for the malic acid in it, intermittent fasting instead of frequent meals, a keto diet to “adjust the fats to your tolerance”, plus cholin, esp. for a fatty liver. I think the only thing that wouldn’t apply to you would be avoiding low-fat diets.
If your time is short you can have a quick look in the video description for a list of what to avoid and what to do in his experience.
It seems to me to be very worth considering, precisely because it caused so much pain and removing it would be the traditional way of treatment, but of course causes new problems.