Question: I have severe inner abdominal itching which is intermittent. My gallbladder was removed 4 years ago. It was so huge that it had grown in to three pools of gallbladder holding the sand. A blockage of the common duct was opening and closing like a lever, said the surgeon, and she removed the blockage. I am 68 years old, and have had multiple hernia operations from lifting patients of my own as an RN/BSN. I have dry skin. At 60 a PE did severe damage to my lungs--I lived--All factors for clotting are low, so I'll never be off the xarelto, since two cousins, maternal side dropped dead with a year are so. Right knee replacement, compression of L5 --has led to chronic pain in my lower back--Thus it is crescendo, decrecendo--You are fat at the 300 mark which I've gained from inability to exercise in addition to tachycardia, heart failure since the PE--I wish to scream, for the intra-abdominal itching when it acts up goes on night and day, and I say that it should not be intermittent, since I've been on opiates for years.
It is your obesity; your out of shape; Look at that weight--"Scream; I'm just easing out of one of the longest and worst periods of itching. I am at my wits end with the whole issue. I used to do every crazy diet which came along--This is related to that nasty scar where the itching is most severe at times. Now, your turn.

Could you also send the follow up answer to my internal medicine physician in San Francisco, for I will see him on July, 5, and I'd like for him to see the collaborative information.