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Is this as beneficial as they say it is?

i’m due to see my colonic specialist :o) Bev, but I really don’t enjoy these things. i’ll keep pondering over this one… Bev is great though, she has me cracking up the entire time!

I hear that these things are really good to do. I plan on doing this sometime this year. I suspect it’ll be slightly embarassing and gross. I’ll spare you the details though since you sorta get the picture. My sister in law is a nurse and I’ll probably go with her (obviously not in the same room – that would be weird). I’d feel safer if someone who knows how to save a life was around ….

I still have 3 more colonics left in the series and each time I have one I’m learning more and more about the impact that food has on my system. None of the things I’m learning are rocket science but when you become more mindful of how your body processes food, it makes you examine your eating habits. Here are the big changes I’ve made as a result of this:

• I’m drinking a lot more water
• I have reduced my daily vanilla coke habit to 2 a week (and in fact only 1 this week)
• I eat at least 2 pieces of fruit a day
• I am more aware of buying unprocessed food or food with no chemicals in it
• I have cut down the amount of sugary foods I eat

This has been a great experience and while it’s not over I’m not sure there’s too much more to share. Hope it’s helped anyone who is mildly curious about it!

You have been warned! Those are the risks you take when you read a post on Get a Colonic…

A couple of significant things have happened since my colonic last week:
a) This has done so much to change the way I eat and what I drink. I am eating more fruit and vegetables, drinking more water and eating a lot more unprocessed food.
b) I am showing an unusual interest in my poo.
I have started eating yoghurt (not the flavoured stuff, the real stuff) and since I’m not a big dairy eater the consequence of that has been extremely regular and pale coloured motions. So at the start of my second colonic I was not suprised to see lots of pale coloured debris. However, as the colonic progressed and we were flushing further up the intestine, stuff that was a whole different colour came out. And lots of it. This signalled to me that there was a whole lot of accumulated fecal matter that has been stuck there for ages.

I still have no idea if doing this is “good for me” but I do know one thing – I am starting to eat in a completely different way so I can help my tired little colon. At long last I’m more mindful of the food choices I’m making and what the impact of this will be (ok so it’s mainly what the impact of this will be on my poo but still!!). Yay Yay Yay!!

If you are even mildly curious about what a colonic entails read on for full details. However if you are about to eat dinner or don’t want to read about bums or poos, go and find a nice post to read and cheer.

Okay here goes! The therapist was really lovely and made me feel very relaxed. We started off by talking a lot about what I was about to experience and what I wanted out of the experience. She explained to me about how the digestive system works and how things can go wrong – by not drinking enough water (check), not including enough fibre in your diet (check), eating too many processed foods (check), not eating enough fruit and vegetables (check) and not enough exercise on a regular basis (check). By the end of that conversation I was feeling like I had been treating my poor little colon like a piece of…oh well, you get the picture.

I went into the other room and removed my clothing from the waist down and lay down on a massage table. I had to turn onto my side so that the therapist could apply a little lubricant and insert the speculum. It was not painful or uncomfortable. The weird thing is that while I knew there was water being flushed in and out of my bowel, nothing (of the brown variety) came out for ages. Which of course suggests that things are not exactly free flowing in that department and I need to do all those things that make a colon happy. My particular diet meant that I didn’t have many nice compacted motions and that there’s probably quite a bit of unreleased build up. Every now and then I felt a little rumble or like I need to go but it wasn’t painful or uncomfortable at all – until right at the end when I REALLY needed to go and not through a plastic tube either! I gave enough warning and so everything was removed and cleared so that I could race to the toilet and GO! That’s when things got messy. I guess so much waste had been loosened that there was a bit of build up. Better in than out though right?!

All in all I had a very good experience. Best of all I feel really inspired to finally start cracking on my whole foods unprocessed diet. The therapist gave me lots of great ideas for meals and best of all lots of motivation. I’m booked in for my second treatment next week so it will be interesting to see if my new diet has an impact on what happens next time. Would it be gross to keep posting about this? I guess it’s something that I’d be curious about so might as well go the whole way and let you know what happens over time!!

I’ll be about to have my first colonic ever!! Am I nervous? Yep. Am I worried that I’m wasting (no pun intended) my money when the colon does this job naturally? Yep. Am I worried that it will be a highly embarrassing procedure? Oh yes!!

So why am I even doing this? Well the psychologist I see at the Eating Disorders Clinic told me that bulimics traditionally have digestion and bowel issues as a result of their behaviours. And that is very true for me – sorry for crossing the “too much information” boundary. I did some research into the benefits and have decided that I’m interested enough and my colon is sluggish enough (yeah you know what I mean) to give it a go. Full details here tomorrow. Ok maybe with a bit of censorship.

that i don’t really want to do this that much. I just need to eat better

Because I only did one session. I don’t care to ever do it again. It wasn’t painful, per say, but the discomfort was nearly intolerable and I wanted to throw up. A friend discribed is a s being similar to labor pains (I don’t know, as I haven’t given birth.) I literaly felt like my colon was going to pop like a water balloon. At one point when I said it was really uncofortable and felt like I wanted to sit on the toliet and let go, the woman told me to just relax and release. When I did, it came out all over the little diaper pad, not through the tube. I felt like the woman was angry about that, and she made me feel ashamed. When I was in the the bathroom I heard her mention that it better not smell when her next client arrived. I thought it was unprofessional. I have a hard time believing that’s never happened before. I only did what I was told to do by her. I purchased the at home “colon cleanse” supplements and fiber, and I will use them at home. However I think that continuing to eat my healthy diet, and drinking the kombucha and organic apple cidar vinegar is enough cleansing for me.

I’m nervous. It’s kinda embarrassing, even if the people Do do it for a living.