My wife did the sea salt and water flush during the BBF. It didn't induce a BM until 12 hours later, HOWEVER within 30 minutes, she got strong pains in the stomach area, where her gall bladder used to be. Could it be related? What would cause this?

Additional Details: My wife and I are on Plan F, she was on day 3 of the bone broth (doing the broth just prior to starting PP). While not being backed up and wanting to avoid that, she did the Sea salt and water flush to see how it work. She got strong pains in the stomach area, like just below the chest, upper part of stomach that was described as a leg cramp/spasm kind of thing that lasted well over an hour. She had her gallbladder removed many years ago. The pain she got is where the gallbladder would be if she had one.

The salt flush experience did not come off with impeccable perfection, such are the rigors of biochemical individuality. The "whooshing" effect should occur within 30-40 minutes. With your wife's GI tract being fairly empty on the bone broth it should have worked very well. So one question to consider: how salty was the bone broth? That might be a factor. The 12-hour later BM was not due to the salt flush. Long before then, the water would have been absorbed and some of the salt as well. I don't see where her missing gall bladder was a factor. She reacted a bit adversely to having a quart of brine in the tummy and perhaps the flush is not quite her cup of tea. Or try it again and see. I've done probably 30 salt flushes and 27 of them were successful, leaving 3 of them that just did not perform. So it’s not failsafe. The body chemistry changes from day to day making matching the salt to blood-salt ratio a "best guestimate with a little Kentucky windage" endeavor.