Thursday, June 3, 2010

Day Three(ish) Of the Flush

This flush thing isn't going so bad. I'm kind of surprised. In fact, everytime I drink another dose of the the oil and lemon I have less nausea with it. Now, if I could have less anxiety (totally self-inflicted) every time that would be great. The fear of gallbladder pain always haunts me, even though after seven doses of the flush I know it doesn't cause any.

Only side effect I'm noticing is that I feel mucousy. My throat feels like there is goop in it and my stomach feels pretty full. I was reading that mucous is usually flushed with it, so it makes sense. From all the yeasty overgrowth in my body from my sugar addiction (PS doing quite well on minimizing sugars!) I'm not surprised there is a bit of mucous working its way out. I'm adding back in a supplement I had stopped taking, called Mullzyme, that helps to clear out mucous. I use to take this back in the beginning days of my gallbladder treatment, but took it out when I started feeling better. I've also added back in my Mega Acid to help increase stomach acid for digestion after meals. Helps a lot, and is something I highly recommend anyone take who has acid reflux or gerd- it takes the burden off the stomach and cleans out the gunk in your gut that is causing the reflux. Don't believe me? Try it for two weeks and you will be amazed. I had a patient at my office who was complaining of GERD, and she took all the supplements I told her to take and within in three weeks the reflux was gone.

Anyway, I had taken a photo of the flush "juice" but haven't taken the pic off my camera yet, so I will post it next time. I'm giving myself at least one full week on the flush program, which puts me to Monday morning as my last dose before I decide what to do. I might do it for two weeks, just depends. I would have to imagine one week would be enough, but I'm not sure. It could be after one week I will take a few weeks off and then do a complete one-day flush sometime soon. Still can't imagine drinking a cup of olive oil in one sitting, but over the last three days I know I've already had that much, if not more, so it would just be drinking it all in one sitting instead of spreading it out!

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