Sure, there is but it sucks. This medication known as ursodeoxycholic acid (Actigall) is only useful for very small cholesterol gallstones. The medication tastes like crap and has to be taken for months or even several years to work. Actigall is made from bile acids obtained from a bear’s gallbladder. If you have been diagnosed with gallstones which do not bother you, leave them alone. If you have gallstones that have caused problems like pain and fever, then surgery may be a better option than Actigall. There are some reports where medications to dissolve gallstones have been inserted via a needle in the gallbladder. However, this is only an option for the very sick patient who is not able to tolerate surgery. All the currently available medications to dissolve gallstones only work on very small stones- for anything larger than 1 cm you will be wasting your time and money. Actigall has been around for more than 40 years and the reason people do not know about it is because it sucks.
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