I'll tell mine,if you,ll tell yours.

[blessed]

:) My experience with detoxing was truly odd, i've had headaches, tingling in my feet and legs, hands and arms that drove me crazy. When you don't know why you think all kinds of things from an oncoming heart attack to having to only God knows what.
I've had a rash that covered my forehead and my neck to my chest area and my back where i could not sleep and i itched all day and almost all night.
My wonderful husband went to the store to get some anti-itch cream when oatmeal water didn't help, i couldn't stand it anymore. It felt like little needles sticking up through my skin, it went away in 3 days.
Let's not forget the dizzy spells where i thought i would pass out any minute and then the times when one minute i would be burning up and the next cold, real cold where i needed a blanket.
Then the emotional detox where i cried so loudly and so long my husband left to go set in the car then came back when the neighbors stopped to listen to me wailing.
After all of that i so glad to be RAW i feel so much better and would not go back to eat the way i use to, it's worth it.
Now let's hear from you all, what has you gone through.

Ann :D

[blessed]

:) I'm going through on a weekly basis some type of detox symptom but my husband who is eating raw also is not going through any detox.
Has anyone else experienced this in your family?

Ann

[lissomllama]

Lets see, I had bad breakouts on my face, sores in my mouth, bloating, gas, loose stools for a week, sore throat for a few days, body odor, loss of energy, Acrid smelling urine, blurred vision for a day, a little nausea, a Moldy taste in my mouth for a day and now the only detox symptom I have is a dull ache in my lower esophegus/stomach area. I think this may be a bad reaction to some pesticides in the few things I've had that weren't organic. My skin is looking very clear, I have no sores or pain or gastrointestinal disturbances and I've lost some weight and my bowel movements are frequent and regular and I'm starting to really feel wonderful.

[codajess]

:) I'm going through on a weekly basis some type of detox symptom but my husband who is eating raw also is not going through any detox.
Has anyone else experienced this in your family?

Ann


I don't know anyone else in real life who's raw; but I can speak for myself. I haven't had a single detox symptom. Nor improvement. Everything's exactly the same.

[Sharon in Colorado]

I have had some emotional detox that has practically scared me to death.

Once I was angry about something that dh did and I started getting too emotional - I ended up driving away for a long time. My mom was staying over and she said they were worried about me when I returned. I'd never done that before.

Another time, more recently, one of the kids missplaced my Lover Boy Greatest Hits CD and I was so ticked off...I don't know why that would have set me off. But I use that CD to work out to because it's so RAWKIN... anyway...

I was just so PO'd that I got on the bike without it and pumped away for 20 minutes straight with my eyes shut tight. My DH walked by and said he'd never seen such a nasty look on my face. I had every emotion imagineable pulsing through my head.

Later I broke down and cried and my DH talked to me and after a while I felt better. But yeesh, those emotional outbursts of mine just tend to sneak up on me, and usually after something small that bugs me...seems to set off a flood of emotional baggage.

So sometimes I wonder if it is some kind of precursor to menopause, like something hormonal or if it is indeed emotional detox.

[lissomllama]

Oh, I forgot to mention my emotional detox as well. I was an emotiona; BASKETCASE for a good month or so. I seriously thought I was losing it for a while there. Now though, I am feeling very good and emotionally balanced.

[blessed]

I've never cried so long and so hard, it scared me. I thought i was having a nervous breakdown.
By the next day i felt renewed sort of, like weights had been lifted that i had carried for a long time.
Now my arms ache and my legs felt weak when i first woke up this morning now they feel stronger.
Hope everyone feels better. :) :)

Ann

[berrymarymac]

I've been itchy and am just not the best person to be around these days. I forget things and have temper problems with my emotional detox! I am hot all the time and tend to freeze everyone in my house because I need the air super cold at night. I'm tired and sleep longer than normal! I have little to no energy and am just lazy! It's not fun. Oh and the headaches get me all the time!

[blessed]

And also very nervous, when i talk sometimes it seems my words get jumbled up and it's odd but it's like i can't get them out fast enough.
Some of the signs of detox are funny when you think about them, after they're over of course but when you are going through them they are not funny at all.
Just knowing that you are becoming the person you were meant to be makes it bareable.

Ann :)

[lissomllama]

mrandal, I too have been very forgetful lately. Simple things I should have no trouble remembering just go right out the proverbial window lately. I'm usually a VERY memorable person but I know that this is detox because it is getting better each day with 100% raw but it is interesting.

[blessed]

:) I picked up a vegetable and looked at it and my mind drew a blank, i could not think what the name of the vegetable was.
Believe it or not i had to go to the net and look up names of vegetables, it was parnips i couldn't believe i could not remember the name of the veggie.
That's why i started this post because it's helpful to know that we are not alone and that others may have had the same symptoms as we are having. It's great to share our experiences, we help each other in doing so.

Ann

[dogmd]

I have had this urine that smelled like rotten eggs on a few occasions. Sort of sulfur smelling. It was also cloudy at the same time. I drank a extra liter of fluid and that helped, but it sort of scared me. I thought I might have a UTI!

[greeninlosangeles]

Being cold, headaches, sores in the mouth(always the third day - since I started three times), a little ear ache, small red rash on my torso(that one happened when I stopped using salt, oil and dehydrated stuff two weeks ago, and it is still there), spinning sensation - when the room spins around me-that one happened just twice - the first time I got scared and ate cooked to stop it, second time I stuck it out and it never came back. Oh, yes, emotional detox - the first week I am mad and everything bothers me, when usually I am very patient person.

[Pierre]

One day I went home from work with borborygmus and exploded on the toilet. Since then I haven't had any tatters of lettuce leaf come out :)

I currently have a coated tongue (it's getting better) and a striped tongue (it looks like it's going to shed the stripes).

I've had gowly eyes without any apparent infection.

That's about it for detox - I kept my insides pretty clean, so there's not much to get rid of except fat.

[rawnpawgirl]

a horrible headache for 3 days straight, nausea, breakouts, sore throat/flu like feeling, joint pain, fatigue, two yeast infections, loose bowels that just crept up on me out of nowhere usually at the worst times like at a store. Then, all the emotional detox- needy and weepy, then-- not wanting to be around "stimuli". For 2 weeks, I was in my own little zone, did not want any sex, did not want to be touched or talked to. Poor hubby.

[learningrawways]

OOOOOOO someone else who has had problems with anger.......

I see it at work, not with my co-workers, but with ppl I have to talk to on the phone and it's scary because I never would get upset, but I have really gotten angry over the phone and then afterwards I feel so ashamed of myself.

I also get headaches, bad ones (sinus headaches that are starting to go to my ear) on both sides, I've had individual itchy bumps, though I had those even before I started raw, my left eye gets something (I can see gunk at the outside corner) that I never had before, and I've sometimes smelled something acrid from me. The coating on my tongue I've had for a couple of years but I see it's almost gone, but still there.

[vgloveforlife]

Horrible PMS, coldness, headaches, earache and itchy ear, tiny rashes.

I've had emotional detox too. Usually it's for one day. Everytime I cheat and then go back to raw almost 100% memories of my childhood will just start flooding back one after another. It's weird because this is stuff I never think of.

[Naiad]

The first week or two I was constantly in the bathroom with loose bowels. I had some sores in my mouth that went away in a day. However, I had lots of energy and went to the gym for the first time in roughly 6 months.

The third week, I got a UTI or UTI like symptoms and went back to eating some cooked food like a jerk. After a week of that, I celebrated going back onto raw with a lovely dinner at Quintessence and have been raw since then.

Going back, I guess I didn't have too much to detox, except, my skin started to break out. It's finally started to get better now that I started using a better facial scrub and using hydro gloves on my body :)

**Edited

Bleah, Friday I was out with my mother (who went raw with me in June) and we were starved and not thinking, so, we went to Zen Palate for lunch. I had a portabella burger with tempura yam fries. So good, and, if I had a dehydrator, probably 100% easy to replicate raw. I didn't eat when I got home, overate salad yesterday morning and felt wretched the whole day. I went to bed after only a few hours awake and slept till 6 this morning.

I just had some water and champagne grapes and I'm feeling much better now!

[Veganforlife]

I am so fortunate that I have not had any detox symptoms. Prior to going raw five weeks ago, I was Vegan. Prior to that for the last 28+ years I was Vegetarian. I feel my body did not have a lot of toxins to get rid of. I'm very lucky.
My body is now transforming. Each day I wake up (and I thank God for allowing me another day of this big circle of life), I wake up totally refreshed and ready to face the day.
My appetite has certainly decreased and my tastebuds have increased.
I'm seeing and feeling muscle and bone where there was fat before.
It's a wonderful metamorphasis (sp?).
I'm happy! :D

[blessed]

:) I was vegetarian for 16 years and then vegan for 1 and half years now raw, i'm feeling better than i've felt in years.
I's also great to see your body changing, it's a very slow process for me but when i think back to all the harmful diets and diet pills i used the wait is worth it.
I'm learning to just let it happen natually. It can be difficult wanting everything to happen overnight but we can't have everything we want.
Going RAW taught me that, it takes time to get to where you want to be. :D

Ann

[vgloveforlife]

I am so fortunate that I have not had any detox symptoms. Prior to going raw five weeks ago, I was Vegan. Prior to that for the last 28+ years I was Vegetarian. I feel my body did not have a lot of toxins to get rid of. I'm very lucky.

No fair. I've been vegetarian my whole life (I've never eaten meat) and I converted to veganism about 4 yrs ago and I still did get a considerable amount of detox...maybe not as severe as others.
My mother cooked A LOT with cheese growing up and we'd have a glass of goats milk from our pet goats every single night. I wish my mom hadn't fed us so much dairy growing up.

[rawpriestess]

Wow, I can't even begin to list all of them, but here are the ones I remember

anger/rage (many times-- I think it was also because I'm going through menopause)
crying fits (same as above)
severe abdominal pain
yeast infection
sleeping at odd hours during the day
very tired
weakness
itching -- palms, bottom of feet, under arms etc.
constipation/loose stools-- one or the other
bloating
gas
cold sores
light sensativity in eyes
runny nose
itchy ears
itchy throat

now please understand that I had alot of these types of symptoms before raw, but they were every day, once I went raw, I didn't have these, then when they came, they came once, and once only, but severe, then never again. how odd!!!

But it is worth it, as I have discovered so many things that are a benefit because of raw, I have a few skin tags, moles and warts, that are dissapearing, I thought it was my imagination, but they are getting smaller, and going away, very flat now, and almost gone, some have dissapeared entirely. YIPPEE!

also, my skin is so much smoother, I've lost alot of weight, I feel great, and my hair is shinier and thicker, much more so than before.

I also have no body odor and tons of energy.

So, life is good. :o)

[pomegranatebliss]

Most of my physical detox did not happen until I was high-raw for two months.

It was the emotional that was the major factor for me, and continues to happen, though not as often. For my first six weeks, I was an emotional roller coaster. Very fragile and sensitive. I'd be doing nothing in particular, then be in heavy tears two seconds later. Old memories and events came back, but this time I didn't squash them back down, so they released. I was lucky that I was job hunting during this time so I could let everything happen freely at home.

I have practiced meditation as part of my yoga for ten years, so the emotional detox actually could have thrown me for an even bigger loop than it did. I've become very good at sitting with all my emotions and letting them pass without judgment. Being raw just brought so many of them to the surface. Just before going raw, I participated in a rose ceremony at my Radha Yoga Centre, where each person released a list of resentments that they no longer wanted to be powerful in their lives. Then when I went raw, each one of them came up in even more vivid detail than they probably would have.

The emotional detox is hard, but I do actually love it. I am so much lighter spiritually now that so much has finally been fully processed and released. This is my favorite part of the raw transition - the spiritual clarity. I had ten years of counseling for eating disorder and abuse issues, ending in 1997. Raw in 2006 has taken it to that last step I needed to let things go.

Physically, I had a blinding headache and crawly skin for my first two days, then the rest of the detox didn't catch up until I finished my second month high-raw. It started with blurred vision and headaches. I thought maybe I needed new glasses or something. Then I went into the washroom and had a moment like Graciebeliever described yesterday with her detox. A big rush. I felt instantly lighter afterward. It wasn't a BM though. My intuition said "gallstones," so I went online and checked that out. There were photos that looked just like what I passed (about 75 of them in three different trips that day) and stories just like mine (except those people were purposely trying to flush them). After the stones passed, I got stuffy in my nose for a couple of days, sore in my kidney area and lower back, and temporarily bloated in my abdominal area. I've been told by doctors for years that I have a fatty liver so that stuff needs to come out!

I kept wondering why I didn't have any big physical detox. Then it came all at once! I didn't know that apple cider vinegar is excellent for flushing the system. I was just eating at least a cup of the non-pasteurized stuff each day for two months on my two big salads and sliced cucumber snacks.

I'm at 76 days high-raw today...wondering what's next. It's too soon to be done. :rolleyes: