Detox Symptoms: Don't hate em. They're Milestones

[hattitude]

Sounds like your body is ready for food and it's break-fasting time!

[Eva]

Yup

How do you know if you are detoxifying? Or rather how does the person thinking that they are not detoxiying know they don't?

[ashi]

Hi all! I am starting the mc tomorrow and I have a particular fear about my detox. I read in the "loose weight, have more enengy..." book that if you took diet pills in the past, it can impact the detox process. I took diet pills on and off for the past 10 years (and plan never to take them again after this cleanse). Have any of you experienced detoxing after diet pill use? If so, what symptoms/effects do you feel you had? Thanks for the help!

[alheim]

Everything I have read points to detoxification going on somewhere between day 3-4 which includes nausia, headaches, odd oders, white tounge, etc.

Over the entire 8.5 days, the only symptom I seemed to have suffered from is cravings (which was made better with more leamonade). I've felt great all week. I assume this could only mean:

1) I really AM in perfect health (like my doctor has told me in the past) and have no toxins to eliminate - even though I in NO WAY eat a balanced or healthy diet, I just apparently have great genes.

2) The toxins are so deeply routed, they have not been realeased even after 8 days of adhearing to the strict rules of the cleanse.

Even if one is in good health - should there be SOME detoxifying going on on the 3rd or 4th day? Why have I not experienced anything besides an obviously cleaned out intestinal tract? ???

.. what a great post - Thanks, 'guest'! Haha, maybe you are in perfect health!

But seriously, folks, what happened with this guy? Why didn't get detox?

[cindyloowho]

Okay I'm on day 2 and I have one annoying symptom- MAJOR lower back pain! Anyone know why this is, how long it lasts... I can't get comfortable.

[Bebe]

I have been reading stuff on curezone.com (Peter suggested looking there in one of his posts-unrelated to my questions) about Parasites, and Liver and Kidney cleanses after MC.

Q1: Does the MC cleanse Parasites out or do I need to do something else for that? Has anyone here done a Parasite cleanse?
Q2: Do I need to do a Liver and Kidney cleanse after the MC?

Haven't started yet...waiting on supply shipment and books, but have been voraciously reading everything posted here over the past 3 days. Just trying to get the most info accumulated to prepare and gear myself up for this. The Parasite thing has me a bit concerned.

[kellyh704]

Okay you guys, I just had the worst day of my life, last night in bed I just felt awful, felt like I was going to throw up and I had the worst headache, today after I drank the SWF I threw up, spent the whole day in bed with the headache that finally went away at about 6pm tonight, I am lucky I have off four days from work right now otherwise I would be in trouble! Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do to stop this headache? Help!

[peanutterb]

Sorry you feel so badly Kelly. Check out the General Help for Newbies thread - it has natural, cleanse safe headache remedies.

Bebe - the mc doesn't get parasites, well maybe but not in the way that cleanses that specifically go after parasites do. you don't have to flush your kidneys and liver after, but you can if you want to.

[ivorybow]

Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do to stop this headache? Help!

Lay on your back and stiffen your fingers and dig them into your abdomen. Follow your intestines and colon direction in circular massage motions clockwise. Start on lower right, move up, then across, then down, following the structure of your colon. Likely you will find sore spots and what feels like blockages. Massage them out in the direction of elimination. This helps me tremendously.

[Sami84]

I lasted 6 days on the MC....I know...not enough...(lost 8.5lbs...but 40lbs overweight)....but it felt like I had the flu...my body was very weak....lower back pain....headaches....chills....and I was wondering if it's because I only did the salt water flush every other day because of my schedule? Also, my last day was Dec. 10....how long do I have to wait before I start another one? I do believe that my body has been better since.....I don't have a craving for as much junk food as I used too....and I would like to try again. Thanks!!