Colonics Apointment - Afraid!

[RaWonderWoman5]

Good evening!

I have a colonics appointment scheduled for March 1st. It wasn't until today that I realized that March 1st is this Saturday. I am SO afraid to go through with this appointment!

So folks, I need some encouragement! I know that I have a lot of 'stuff' in my belly and that I'll feel like a million bucks after the appointment. However, the whole procedure/process scares the living daylights out of me! :o

[mel_s12]

There is absolutely NOTHING to be afraid of. I love colonics.. lol. You just have to get over the awkwardness. That's all. It does not hurt and most colon hydrotherapists are pretty informative and friendly. You're going to love it. It has really helped with my digestive issues a lot. :D

[Stina]

Take a heating pad and massager with you. PUt the heating pad on your abdomen and massage back and forth, especially along your sides where the intestines turn and anywhere you experience discomfort. If you experience any discomfort, it's as easy as turning the water the water off. More than likely, you'll be controlling it yourself. It's fun! If you're lucky, you'll see a worm shoot down the tube.

[tanishamarshall]

I haven't had a colonic myself, but I know you can do it, I bet you'll feel great afterwards. I can't wait to have one, I might make an appt for the end of March.

[RawLoveBaby]

I just finished a series of 13 colonics in three weeks. I love them and would like to do more. The only thing that can be uncomfortable physcially is if you have excessive gas. So don't eat anything that would give you excessive gas. Everyone is going to have some. The discomfort comes from the water trying to get around big air bubbles. It's fine though. And I don't know if you have more than one session booked, but it's not uncommon for not much or nothing to come out the first session. It doesn't mean it's not working. It means that the water is being used to soften up all the old stuck on stuff and will come out either on the toilet after and/or through several more colonics sessions. Many many colonic sessions are needed to be totally clean. Take a look at a book called Inside Poop. I don't remember the author's name but it's written by one of the top colon hygenists. Lots of good info.

[chinagirlkim]

Regarding your colonic treatment.....you will do fine. It is a bit un nerving the first time and awkward. I had one session on Tuesday and another on Wednesday. I took a day off and will do another one tomorrow. So far a lot of gas has been released and just a bit of feces. I am told that with each treatment the water begins the process of softening the impacted feces. I wouldn't say I felt better afterwards due to my nerves at first but did feel better soon after. I have other health issues that I am battling so this is just a step in the right direction to detoxify.
You can do it and if at anytime you feel uncomfortable turn the water off and ring the bell or whatever their system is.

Take care and congrats on your courage to get really clean.
Kim

[maui_butterfly]

you can do it! if you want to. if you don't want to, don't do it!

p.s. if you DO do it, get the wheatgrass implant! awesome! :)

[Ginger]

I'm so jealous! I am on day 17 fasting and I would LOVE to try a colonic or 10 lol :D

[nfracer]

I am in the middle of a series right now 3 down 9 to go! My advice is to drink plenty of fluids before and especially after....I made the mistake of NOT doing that out of pure stupidity and ended up dehydrated ultimately resulting in my current bout of influenza which I have not had in 10 years! I am certain "old toxins" got stirred up that I did not flush away and it caused me to succumb to this awful flu....me, who never gets sick! I am sure much of my current sickness is from not flushing out the "bad stuff"...also-I have a family of 7 and NO ONE else is sick (knock on wood) making me think it's more of a detox reaction than anything else. I go tomorrow for a session and I can't wait cuz I'm hoping to flush away the flu forever!!!!! I have been home from work all week which is not like me at all....so, lesson learned. DRINK UP!

[Cinammon]

Hey

Hope your colonic left you feeling great, if you went.

I've never had a colonic, so I can't really speak on it, but my instinct would be not to. a high raw diet is/should be enough to cleanse you. (Assuming there are no existing health problems.)

But I'm certainly no expert, and I'm not speaking from experience.

I'm sure the majority of colonics are nothing but beneficial.

Love

Cinammon x

[VeganGypsie]

Thanks Cinnamon, for this post. It always seemed to me that enemas and colonics were unnatural, and possibly dangerous, as well as other weird things like eating clay (P+B shakes). The master cleanse is the only colon cleansing regimen I'd consider doing myself, but a raw diet really should be enough.

[RaWonderWoman5]

Well, here's an update.

I wimped out. I decided not to go. I was still super afraid and I felt like I wasn't mentally prepared. I had myself convinced that my colon/intestines were going to burst. :o So, I'm going to wait until the Spring and, until then, do a little more research so that I feel a bit better about the process.

Thanks for the replies everyone!

[Cinammon]

Thanks, VeganGypsy. Your post really cheered me up!

Eating clay - you know something's gone a bit wrong with your diet when you feel the need to do that ...!?

RaWonderWoman - good for you for listening to your instincts, and not just rushing in there for fear of 'wimping out'. If a colonic is really right for you, you'll probably come to feel it ... (no pun intended!)

Wishing you well

God bless

Cinammon x

[River Mom]

I'm very new to this colonic? Only can judge by what I hear and I trust the people on this site very much. Have you ever heard that if you get this it takes out the good things with the bad and leaves you worse than when you started? I am considering one for my Husband. He does not eat raw 100% and has 54 years of sad in his guts. Now we are working through some stuff and I think this might be helpful, but I JUST DON'T KNOW.
Im open to more info if you have it.
River Mom ( and Wife )

[Rawkinlocs]

All I can say is, do you own due diligence on this as with anything else. Yeah, colonics and enemas aren't "natural" but a lot of what we do isn't. You being in front of this computer typing away isn't "natural" - talking on your cell phone isn't "natural" - living in your comfy house and sleeping in your comfy bed and using a blender or a food processor or eating with utensils or driving in your vehicle or sitting on a toilet...get my drift? If you get a gaping wound or break a limb...are you going to just let it be or are you going to get it at least stitched up/wrapped up? I'm gonna go a little deeper here...someone mentioned before about an entry not being an exit and all that...okay, how natural or unnatural is oral (you know what) and how many people DO that? Okay, that was way off topic but I'm sure the connection can be made if you really think about it.

So where do YOU draw the line? Cooking your food for all the years you cooked it until you came into the light of eating raw foods wasn't natural either and sometimes it takes using unnatural means to remedy problems brought on by doing other unnatural things. And who's to say that the CONCEPT behind colonics/enemas isn't (what we consider) natural. Not to get preachy as I know that's a no-no, but my "spiritual guide" tells me there is nothing new under the sun. So, I'm willing to bet that although it may not have been the exact method we use today, there was SOME form of this concept of flushing water into the bowels to clean them out around long before someone's "idea" of using the tube and all that came into play. Maybe our ancestors sat on a geyser-like thing to flush stuff up there...we don't know for sure.

As I've said MANY times on this forum...there is always going to be someone for or against something and they darned sure are gonna have documentation to back up their stance be it for or against. So, while some say colonics, etc. are oh so dangerous...another health expert is saying the complete opposite and they BOTH will have facts to back up what they are saying. Right? Right!

The only person who can judge if it's right or wrong, safe or not, beneficial or harmful is you. Have ONE done and see what your own body says to you. Don't go on what I might say in favor of or what someone else says against it. You can get the same results simply eating raw but it may (or may not) take longer. I'll tell someone in a minute that when I first went raw and had those awful headaches as my body went through detox, enemas were my best friend. Getting that crap out of me was the best thing I could have done as I was totally bound up prior to going raw anyway so that stuff would have been sitting in my system for a while had I waited for it to happen naturally. I helped it along and glad I did and would do it again in a heart beat! What would have been better...1. me being totally out of it and not able to function due to my massive headaches, 2. me taking meds or 3. me helping my body to eliminate?

Hmmm...I'll take number 3 "Johnny"! My advice, listen to those who've actually tried them and listen for favorable as well as unfavorable results from them rather than someone's theory who very may have never tried it a day in their lives.

Rivergirl...you're probably referring to it removing helpful as well as harmful flora (bacteria, etc.) from your bowels...a good Colonic Hydrotherapist will tell you this and let you know to do a pro-biotic afterwards. Same if you went to the doctor and was prescribed antibiotics which would also kill beneficial bacteria as well as bad bacteria, you would take pro-biotics after your treatment was over to restore the healthy flora to your gut. Most doctors won't tell you this, unfortunately.

[Rawkinlocs]

Just to be fair...I'm going to go ahead and repost the link to Roger Haske's "article" against colonics, enemas and colon cleanses: http://rogerhaeske.com/?p=161

BUT, I'm also gonna list some information in favor of them...

Gerson Therapy - a well-known therapy (using juicing and coffee enemas) that has both case and scientific studies of people being cured from various types of cancer through this treatment: http://www.gerson.org/g_therapy/default.asp (look in the right-hand side bar for the links to the studies)

Medical Journalist Report
Value of Colon Hydrotherapy Verified by Medical Professionals (I know that this may not matter to some...but to some, it does)
http://www.tldp.com/issue/11_00/mjr.htm

Now, in Haske's article, it was mentioned that people have died as a direct result of colonics. Okay...so what is Dr. Graham's or Roger Haske's response to the stories of children or people period dying "from a raw food diet"? That they "didn't do it correctly" or that they "didn't eat the proper raw food diet"? So, just as people have reportedly died in hospitals, fasting clinics and due to their raw diet...can't it stand to reason that perhaps (very unfortunately) they got a bad colonic hydrotherapist who did not know what they were doing OR...perhaps that person had something going on within and were already on the brink of death and it was a coincidence that they died after having had a colonic?

Also, it was mentioned about not finding gorillas (or whatever example they used) in nature putting water up where the sun doesn't shine. Nope, they probably don't but they also (as I mentioned before) don't sit in front of computers or cook their food or drive cars rather than walk or go to the grocery store to BUY their food, and a whole HOST of other unnatural things that WE, humans do.

The point is, once again, there are pros and cons to just about everything we do. I, personally, found colon cleansing via enemas quite helpful and have not died (apparently) nor lost my ability to "go" on my own as a result. Everyone and their experiences are different.

[girl81]

Col. is almost 100 dollars per session here; same elsewhere?

[chinagirlkim]

Raw Friends,
I do think it's a very personal decision and not one made easily. During my third colonic is when things started to really "rock n' roll" and I was so amazed and grossed out at the same time. The stuff that moved was not the leftovers from my one month on a raw food diet. It was black and well formed sorry for the detail but i think it's important to realize that it's never possible to be 100% totally clean....unless one has been raw for a good amount of time. So, I decided to do this in order to give myself the best advantage in my raw journey. Try to move out the old stuff and thus have a better chance for my body to heal from some of it's issues. Not sure if this helps anyone but hope so.
It's a personal choice.
Kim:)

[River Mom]

Rivergirl...you're probably referring to it removing helpful as well as harmful flora (bacteria, etc.) from your bowels...a good Colonic Hydrotherapist will tell you this and let you know to do a pro-biotic afterwards. Same if you went to the doctor and was prescribed antibiotics which would also kill beneficial bacteria as well as bad bacteria, you would take pro-biotics after your treatment was over to restore the healthy flora to your gut. Most doctors won't tell you this, unfortunately.

Ya, that was it. Thank you for this information and personal opinion. That means so much to me. Like I said I have come to trust this site and rely on the experiences of others to teach me.

Thanks
RM

[RaWonderWoman5]

Hi everyone.

Over the past week, I've only had a minute here and a minute there to check the board. Just wanted to say thanks to all who responded and provided a great deal of insight.

I think I'm going to aim for April to reschedule my appointment. By then, I should feel much more comfortable.