Update

I hadn't had a gallbladder attack since before I wrote my last article. However, about three weeks ago I had another one. The pain started just under the lower ribs on my right hand side and then moved to the center. This became severe pain that felt like it was in my stomach and made it hard to breathe. Classic symptoms for me with a gallbladder attack. I hadn't been taking the vinegar and hadn't had an attack in nearly two years (which matches what my mom had said in my last article). So the next day I got back on it. I started with two Tbs of vinegar and took it four times that first day. I cut back to one Tbs three times a day for the next few days. I also took some peppermint to help make certain that the bile acids would circulate. I often just use a starlight mint candy in hot tea, hot chocolate or cappuncino. However, this time I bought a bottle of Creme De Minth and put a spoonful of this in my capucino. It seems like if you take it everyday you can often get by with just a single dose. This would be typical for me:

I use a measuring glass that looks like an oversized shot glass. Full to nearly the top it would hold half a cup. This is 4 ounces or 8 tablespoons.

I start with one tablespoon of vinegar.

Here I added two more tablespoons of orange juice to make three tablespoons altogether.

Someone has asked me to give links to the studies I found when I was trying to figure out how vinegar could have any effect at all on gallstones. This is one:

British Journal of Nutrition, 2006.
In the present study, we explored the efficacy of vinegar for prevention of hyperlipidaemia and examined whether a diet containing 0·3% acetic acid, a concentration corresponding to that in sushi, a traditional Japanese food, would affect lipid metabolism in rats fed a cholesterol-rich diet.

In conclusion, dietary acetic acid reduced serum total cholesterol and triacylglycerol: first due to the inhibition of lipogenesis in liver; second due to the increment in faecal bile acid excretion in rats fed a diet containing cholesterol.