really long post with several questions!

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Hi everyone, my name is Jen and I'm 26 years old. I believe this is my first

post. I've been reading posts and finally got into the files section of the

group, where I read " Journey to the Center of your Colon. " OMG! After reading

that I want to do a colon cleanse like NOW. I started having heartburn about 5

years ago, and getting it on a regular basis (3-5 times a week or more) probably

about a year ago; honestly I wasn't keeping track. Well, the end of April I

started having really bad abdominal pain which I thought was my gallbladder. My

mom had gallbladder problems and she said that my symptoms were pretty much

identical to hers. I finally couldn't take it anymore and ended up in the ER

one Sunday night. They couldn't figure anything out so they wrote an order for

a sonogram to be done the next day, which showed nothing. About a week later

they did a Hydascan (sp?). I don't know how many of you have had that

done...but what they do is inject you with radioactive

materials (yuck) so that your liver and gallbladder show up on this scan, and

then they inject you with some drug that forces your gallbladder to expel the

materials so they can see how well it's functioning. I was told it's the

equivalent of eating a really fatty meal. IT HURT. Not so bad that I couldn't

stand it but it hurt. My roommate was horrified when I told her that. She was

like " I don't have any pain when I eat something like that! " Well, once again

they found nothing wrong. So, they sent me to a Gastroenterologist who did an

Endoscopy. This was nearly 5 weeks after I first went to the doctor, mind you.

He found " mild stomach irritation. " Honestly, before I had that test done I

didn't know that they stomach is actually in the upper left of the abdomen, I

thought it was in the middle. So once I saw the diagram I realized that by that

point the pain was exactly where the diagram said my stomach was! In the

beginning it was from the right side of my back, around to

the front and across to my stomach. I missed so much work and was so miserable

for so long, and for them to find NOTHING. The Gastroenterologist said it was

probably stress. I hate to tell him, but I'm under less stress now than I have

been in the past. I'm only 26! All they told me was to keep taking Prilosec.

Yeah, that keeps the heartburn away, but way to mask the problem guys. I'm so

aggravated with doctors. That's why I joined this group. I wanted to see what

good doing a liver, gallbladder and colon cleanse would do. My questions are:

Have people done all 3 of those?

Can I do them all at once, or is that too much to put my body through?

HOW do I do it? I've seen bits and pieces but I'm the type of person who wants

complete step by step instructions (yeah, I know, I'm difficult! LOL).

How long does it take?

What can I expect during a cleanse?

How often do I have to do it?

Once I do it, how will I know that I'm fully cleansed?

Sorry if these questions seem at all ignorant...I just really don't know

anything about this and so far I haven't found any good reliable information

anywhere. If there are any good websites or books that people know of which will

answer these (and probably the other questions I have but don't remember at this

point) I would be VERY grateful. I want to get this all taken care of while I'm

young! I'm also on some prescription medications which I'm trying to slowly

wean myself off of so I can go completely to herbal remedies. I'm tired of

poisoning my body with all that crap. I'm hoping that once I get my body

cleansed it will work how it's supposed to and I won't even need the herbal

stuff. I think that's wishful thinking though. We shall see. Thank you all so

much!

Jen

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