day 7: colonic

today was the first day i managed to drink 3 litres of juice and plenty of water, too. possibly because i got up so damned early :(

i made 2 litres of green-based juices as soon as i got up and a pineapple juice treat in the afternoon. because i was still hungry (i woke up starving today) i made another juice in the evening, while everyone else was tucking in to thai takeaway. didn't appeal, luckily.

but i'm sure many of you will be itching for gory details of my first foray into the land of colonics. i know i scoured every blog to find out if it was right, appropriate and sufferable for me, so if you're new to the game, here's my first impressions.

the therapist was lovely. very gentle and smiley. i had to fill out a lengthy medical history and diet form so i 'fessed up right there to my raw leanings and current juicefeasting. when she started flicking through the completed form and asking for more detail, she was very impressed with my juicefeasting and supplements, raw diet etc. she was totally cool and i didn't have to convince her. she didn't even bat an eyelid at the 92 day aspect. she knew what i'd be going through at each stage, with a great grasp of detox and i was highly commended for doing enemas at home, too. i felt like teacher's pet ;)

so... if you're of a sensitive disposition you might want to skip this paragraph... the icky bit of putting the pipes in was over in an instant and then for what seemed like a reeeally long time there was nothing but clear water coming out the pipe. i did get the odd spasm and the therapist tried to relax me so i didn't resist 'evacuation' as she called it. for those who don't knkow this bit - like me earlier today - the water flows in and out, it doesn't just constantly fill you up, and she said it was going along my colon one inch at a time. 

so we chatted for a while and she taught me all about the digestive system and she rubbed my belly and it was all fine. then stuff started coming out. morbid fascination got the better of me and i watched every little pellet of years- or even decades-old gunk flow out. then it was time to flush the last of it away and i was ushered to the loo to spend some quality time on my own. you know, considering there was nothing in the last bit (as in nearest to the exit) of my colon because between the juices and the home-administered enemas there was nothing left to shift, it's really quite astonishing how much stuff came out during the colonic and immediately afterward. i'm so glad to have got rid of it all. ewww. who wants that inside their body? no thank you.

afterwards i felt noticeably lighter and like there was space in my torso for things to move around a bit. i'm not sure how to describe it. there were no awful after-effects, i felt a light headache starting but that disappeared almost instantly, but that was the only negative thing. i couldn't get quite as excited as some people - not to name any names... oh ok then, like suki ;) - but it was the right thing to do and i'm glad i've got a shiny colon now :D

are you still with me? blimey. last thing. today i felt a sudden flare up of thrush which lasted about 5 minutes, followed, an hour or so later by a cough. now get this. just over two years ago i had a nasty chest infection, lots of antibiotics to treat it and ended up, as women often do, with thrush because of the antibiotics. now go with the 3 days of juice equals a year back in your body's history and what do you get? i just finally cleared out my chest infection and its after-effects. fantastic :D