Cleanse question...?

August 8, 2004

I am doing the cleanse. I am really glad because I do believe it will help me.

I have a couple of questions for those of you who have done one.

1. BACKGROUND: Since I started intestinal cleanse #2 a couple of days ago, I woke up after the first day of #2 with a feeling of a bruise on my arm. It has stayed there the entire time, and it seems to be just as sore as it was the first day. I don't know, maybe my husband hit me with his elbow while sleeping, but other than that, I don't know where it could have come from. Also, I fell in the tub about a week ago and bashed the middle of my leg bone, about half way down my calf. It swelled a lot, but I iced it and it seemed to take care of the swelling but not the pain. I spent the day yesterday walking. I have a huge bruise under neath the inside of the foot just below my ankle bone. QUESTION: Could these bruises possibly be from the cleanse?

2. BACKGROUND: The day after I started cleanse #2, I began to get some phlegm coming up from my lungs. I believe my stepson, although he has been asked not to smoke in the house, has. When I am around cigarette smoke, I get a lot of phlegm in my lungs and headaches. However, I don't smell the smoke (and I usually can). Last time he used a room deodorizer, and I could not smell it. What I have seems like it is when you are just about over some kind of cough sickness as the body has basically gotten it in line and you have just a little left over that you have to get out yet. It isn't bothering me or making me feel bad (maybe a little achy in the chest area), but it is strange to me since I have not been sick. I have had breathing problems (which I forgot to mention to Doc during my interview), for a while now. I was told I likely had exercise induced asthma, however, it has gotten worse over the last 10 years, and I am beginning to have breathing problems more often now. I have occasionally used an inhaler because I feel like my lungs and bronchials are swollen smaller. QUESTION: Is this phlegm something to be concerned about? Should I do something for it?

3. BACKGROUND: The second day of the cleanse, I got a massive headache. I got somehow totally out of order on taking the things I was to take, and the order I did things was catawampus. I was actually burping Total Tonic. Although I don't hate TT, I would rather not take it and then get it back for a couple of hours. That was a little much.

That night, I had such a headache that I felt like I was getting a migraine (which I have had many of). I lay in bed for 2 hours with the headache. I don't have the courage to take cayenne--I don't like hot stuff. So the next day, I got off the cleanse and felt pretty good after about 4 hours of eating other things and not cleansing and having some caffeine. Truthfully, I thought I was having some type of crisis as my head hurt soooo bad! I got back on today (which will be the third day I have done it skipping yesterday), and I just feel almost like I am going to get another headache. QUESTION: Was that because I got off schedule or was it a healing crisis?

Thanks for any thoughts you can give me.

I don't know that I am receiving all emails so it would be great if you could email me privately and/or to the list.

Thanks again.

Kay