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When I began having pain in my right upper abdomen, I assumed it was gas. I soon experienced it so frequently that I had to visit the doctor, who determined that I had gallstones. These eventually ended with my gallbladder being removed in an emergency surgery, but when I was trying to manage the condition on my own, I tried a few things. It was the recommendation of a pharmacist I knew that led me to trying out nature’s Bounty Milk Thistle. In addition to being a treatment for the liver and gallbladder, it also had the potential to lower blood sugar. Since I am a diabetic, this could be a particularly valuable side effect. I started taking the milk thistle, 1000mg twice a day, with meals.
I did have a
few side effects. The first obvious side effect was nausea. It was difficult to determine if it was really the milk thistle causing the nausea, or if it was actually the gallbladder condition itself. Since I took the product with food to reduce the chance of nausea, and food can
also trigger a gallbladder attack, it was impossible to know if the gallbladder was acting up because I ate something, or if the perfect timing was because I had taken the product with the meal.
After a few experiments of not taking the product with food, it was pretty clear that it was the milk thistle, and I never took it without food again! There were a couple of occasions where I had some diarrhea as well, but I cannot ...