Master Cleanse - Day 4 - A Few Questions

[Eatrawordie]

Hey guys,

I have 3 questions/slight concerns about the Master Cleanse.

1. I'm having tight chest and lung pains along with rapid/irregular heartbeat. I'm assuming this is a detox symptom. What does it mean though?

2. My throat feels like it's swelling up sometimes. What does that mean exactly? I understand they're detox symptoms but what does this symptom mean exactly?

3. My bowel movements with the sea salt flush started off great! BUT the last 2 days have been very watery with tiny bits of stool and gas. Why is this? I'm starting to feel a bit discouraged with this constant butt pee. Though I do remember getting colonics (45min sessions) and sometimes it would take forever for stool to come through and when it did, it was crazy like a huge fountain of it. I'm wondering if that's going to happen with the salt water flushes.


Thanks in advance

[MysticTree]

Hi,

I can't help you with your first two questions but the third one seems fairly straight forward. You are taking in only liquids. You will expel only liquids after the first two days along with the odd bit of solid which had been previously delayed. This is especially so if you were eating raw, vegan in the days before you switched to the master cleanse.

I'm really not convinced by the whole master cleanse thing but I know lots of people swear by it.

[Amii]

Hey guys,

I have 3 questions/slight concerns about the Master Cleanse.

1. I'm having tight chest and lung pains along with rapid/irregular heartbeat. I'm assuming this is a detox symptom. What does it mean though?

2. My throat feels like it's swelling up sometimes. What does that mean exactly? I understand they're detox symptoms but what does this symptom mean exactly?

3. My bowel movements with the sea salt flush started off great! BUT the last 2 days have been very watery with tiny bits of stool and gas. Why is this? I'm starting to feel a bit discouraged with this constant butt pee. Though I do remember getting colonics (45min sessions) and sometimes it would take forever for stool to come through and when it did, it was crazy like a huge fountain of it. I'm wondering if that's going to happen with the salt water flushes.


Thanks in advance

The first two do NOT sound like detox symptoms to me - get yourself checked out by a doctor ASAP and you should stop the cleanse for the timebeing.

Also make sure you're not taking in any protein supplements whilst cleansing as that can actually kill you.

[siennagray]

I agree, # 1 doesn't sound like a detox symptom to me.

Think carefully about the way # 2 feels. If it is actually your throat swelling, that is dangerous, and not detox. There are lymph nodes and glands right alongside the outer back of your throat. If these are what's actually swelling, your body is likely fighting off infection and the inflamed glands are putting pressure on your throat. You could try doing a lot of bouncing - (rebounder/trampoline/jumprope) to make sure that your lymph system keeps moving well.

#3 - butt pee is absolutely normal. The amount of solid waste after the first couple days is very minimal for most people. Some people experience scattered days of solid waste several days into the cleanse.

[Eatrawordie]

The first two do NOT sound like detox symptoms to me - get yourself checked out by a doctor ASAP and you should stop the cleanse for the timebeing.

Also make sure you're not taking in any protein supplements whilst cleansing as that can actually kill you.

I'm not taking any supplements. I'm only doing the Master Cleanse.

[Eatrawordie]

I agree, # 1 doesn't sound like a detox symptom to me.

Think carefully about the way # 2 feels. If it is actually your throat swelling, that is dangerous, and not detox. There are lymph nodes and glands right alongside the outer back of your throat. If these are what's actually swelling, your body is likely fighting off infection and the inflamed glands are putting pressure on your throat. You could try doing a lot of bouncing - (rebounder/trampoline/jumprope) to make sure that your lymph system keeps moving well.

#3 - butt pee is absolutely normal. The amount of solid waste after the first couple days is very minimal for most people. Some people experience scattered days of solid waste several days into the cleanse.


I googled my question on throat and chest and I found others that have the same problem but their doesn't seem to be much of an answer. Just to add I have never smoked in my life, I know one of these members mentions being a previous smoker.

[climbing]

I have done the master cleanse for a few days in the midst of juice fasting... I liked it, but it's nowhere near as awesome as juice fasting is... I felt much yuckier from the master cleanse mixture... not sure if that's because it's more detoxifying, or because it's just yucky.

But I'm just on a juice fast and I experienced your #1 symptom all of yesterday. It sounds like anxiety (in my case because I'm still recovering from some trauma that occured) but it could be a lot of things. I agree with the others that if it doesn't go away soon you might want to see someone, just on the odd chance you could be having heart problems or something. :\ Hopefully it isn't that though, not trying to scare you or anything. It's just that my father in law had a heart attack that began with symptoms like that, and his wife tried to shrug it off as nothing, and my boyfriend happened to be there visiting them at the time and he didn't feel right about it and called an ambulence. By the time the ambulence got there he was barely breathing and they said had he not called when he did his father would have died. :( So that made me think twice about stuff like that....

Your #2 question almost makes me wonder if you could be allergic to the lemons or the syrup... have you eaten much of them before?

#3... expect only liquids. What else would come out?

[Eatrawordie]

I have done the master cleanse for a few days in the midst of juice fasting... I liked it, but it's nowhere near as awesome as juice fasting is... I felt much yuckier from the master cleanse mixture... not sure if that's because it's more detoxifying, or because it's just yucky.

But I'm just on a juice fast and I experienced your #1 symptom all of yesterday. It sounds like anxiety (in my case because I'm still recovering from some trauma that occured) but it could be a lot of things. I agree with the others that if it doesn't go away soon you might want to see someone, just on the odd chance you could be having heart problems or something. :\ Hopefully it isn't that though, not trying to scare you or anything. It's just that my father in law had a heart attack that began with symptoms like that, and his wife tried to shrug it off as nothing, and my boyfriend happened to be there visiting them at the time and he didn't feel right about it and called an ambulence. By the time the ambulence got there he was barely breathing and they said had he not called when he did his father would have died. :( So that made me think twice about stuff like that....

Your #2 question almost makes me wonder if you could be allergic to the lemons or the syrup... have you eaten much of them before?

#3... expect only liquids. What else would come out?

Thanks for your response.

I expected the salt to break up old fecal matter and flush it out. When I would get colonics done so much waste would come gushing out, old and new.