What does detoxing actually FEEL like for you?

I think to "feel" the effects of detoxing you have to be really in tune with your body. It is not a huge magnificent feeling, that's for sure.

I think the more important feeling is.... if you don't do it. Then you feel stuff and it is not pleasant.

For me, I have been detoxing for so many years that I am sure if I quit, I would feel horrible.

We come in contact with toxins many times during the day, if we are out and about. For those that hang in the house with the computer all day long, probably not so much.

But, being in a car with the plastic, rugs, car fumes, and go shopping with the smells of everyone else, and the aisle with the cleaning products.... If you just walk down that aisle, you will need detoxing.....

Maybe you are like the majority of the people in this world that don't notice it, but it is having an effect on your body.

I live in the woods and believe me.... if you are within 100 feet of me and use Tide laundry soap, I get sick feeling and believe me .... you stink in my world.

So, to each his own and maybe you are not as sensitive as I am..... be grateful!!!

I live in a cursed world where I think so many people stink. If you are a smoker, of my gosh, I am the woman that goes to the other check out line at the grocery store.

I hope you don't need to detox. That would be ideal. I have not heard from anyone that doesn't detox. If you are lucky enough to not have to, gosh am I jealous!!!

Anyway, now you know why most of us do it. Too many toxins out there in the world and we absorb them. And ultimately we need to get them out of us.

Hence..... DETOX .... our only solution.

For me, my body doesnt detox well. I recently fount out I have the dreaded mthfr (sp?) Gene. So toxins really build up. I needed two full months off treatment to detox fully before I could start again.

That being said, I do notice certain methods do work for me at least somewhat.

Pinella and burbur within 30 minutes reduce brain herx. I now know if I start crying and getting confused and upset thats the one I go to first. After I use it I feel an overall sense of mental relief.

I use lemon water when I feel fluish and weak. Within 30 minutes I feel a pushing sensation through my body and symptoms start to lift, enough to make me join the living again. Meaning I find I will start interacting with the family again and concious of my surroundings instead of laying like a wet noodle staring into space.

Epsom baths make me so much worse. I avoid them.

I also do a specific detox protocol everyday now even before I feel a herx. All day long. Then I add in when a herx is upon me.

Oh I also eat broccoli when I feel like I cant get a handle on everything. No immediate relief but I always feel less body stress if I eat it. I guess the fiber helps but I notice it most with broccoli.

I think for me the trick is pulsing my meds and detox detox all day long and if a herx symptom crops up I have specific go tos that work.

Oh and when my babesia herx comes on I find apple cider vinegar calms it. I dont wait, at the first sign of heart palps and racing and skips or sweating at night I take it asap.

I dont know why I feel relief for specific symptoms with specific methods but im just going with it at this point.

Im very sensitive in feeling changes in my body though. Bad in that I feel every darn little discomfort. But darn it I feel a low blood sugar coming on 20 minutes before my blood glucose meter picks it up. And not the usual shakes and sweats that happen once a low hits but just an off gross feeling. Saves me every time. So yay for that right?

Couple of thoughts: if you detoxed every toxin out of your body at one time it would probably kill you. And, the more you detox the more you can detox.

The only time I had a direct immediate "it worked" effect from detox was when after a long day of strenuous house cleaning my feet, calves, thighs both legs were in spasm. I did not have muscle relaxants. I took a detox bath: Epsom salts, baking soda,copaiba,balsam fir, palo santo essential oils in very hot water in my cast iron bath tub for 40 minutes. No spasms during the bath or after. After the bath I could feel my thigh muscle relax.

Hi. I don't detox as of yet so I can't comment on Lyme symptoms.. But I'll start with the lemon water first and get back to you all on that...

The time I did notice detox was juice fasting... It's amazing how obvious.. After a day or few you get the headaches that go away quickly then after four days you are no longer super hungry... But then you herx and things come out ... Usually your most recent viruses sync that hadnt left your body yet or those stored in fat ...

Now that I think about it your most recent symptoms sometimes flare like a pain in elbow but they don't last long then the more you fast/ detox then further back you cleanse ... Sry if confusing.

At any rate I know bruhner has a book on fasting.

I did juice with master cleanse and a few smoothies as well as clay and salt water flushes. Felt great then. . Was infected just didn't know it. Thought I was a twitching hypochondriac at times. But yes can't wait to be able to add juice fasting into my life again.?

Thanks for all the responses, everybody. I will have to go through them some more to see what I can mine out for me. Certainly everyone is different, has different responses, etc. And I'm not one "in tune" with my body much!

Juice cleanses......I tried one of those once, felt like I might pass out by day 3. Don't know if it just wasn't enough calories (I'm not a small fry) or something else nutritional like that, or if it was actually some kind of cleanse effect.

Long story short for me, I just need to take some more time & attention on this whole 'health' thing.....