I decided I was going to try that master cleanse today and couldnt get through a cup of the salt water flush. I went ahead and mixed the lemonade drink and couldnt get past 2 sips. That is some very nasty stuff. Anyone who tried it have the same problems???

Did you buy the books or are you just going off information from the web sites? My husband is not doing the salt water flush or the laxative tea. Right now he is just monitoring how many BM's he is having and going with that. There is no way he could drink that much salt water. Did you buy the special salt? I bought some of the laxative tea and I tried a sip and it was nasty. It made me feel quite nauseated. There are Senekot tabs that you can buy, it is the same stuff as in the tea.

Yes the lemonade drink is not great, it is the cayenne pepper that does me in. I tried it as well. The book suggests a couple of things. Make sure you have mild cayenne. Apparently cayenne can be very powerful or mild. Also don't mix it up ahead of time and let it sit as this just makes it hotter. Some people do a cayenne pepper shooter where they mix the pepper with a bit of maple syrup and water and just gulp it down like a tequila shooter.

My husband is doing really well, he has stuck with it. This is day 5 for him. He is really hungry though. His problem is that he was never one for drinking a lot to begin with and to get rid of the hunger you have to drink all of the lemonade drink plus water and he can't or won't do that so he's hungry.

hi
First thing is I too have done the Master Cleanse, was recommend by a doctor not for weight lose but as a cleanse only. I was alot thinner then and tell you what i felt good after doing it. I have a problem now with boils and liver problems so will soon again do the cleanse.

I HAVE DONE IT AND WILL DO IT AGAIN!!!!

Jen - glad your husband is doing OK with it! I definitely want to do it one day. I just want to get my weight down some more, and wait until work becomes a little less stressful.

I got the recipes from the web. I thought I would try it as a cleanse and for weight loss. I just want to loss those 10lbs I put on after bingeing. Im in a weight loss contest on the radio and we have 2 weeks left now. I had been in 3rd place but after the binge I dropped further down. I started back on my metabolism diet and hopefully I can stick with it.

As soon as I mixed the lemonade I tried to drink it. I think I got regular cheyenne pepper and yes that did make it hot. Im also not one to drink something warm and the recipe said hte water needed to be room temp.

Do you recommend any other cleanses?

I can't say that I have any info on any other cleanses. We just found out about this one from a co-worker of my husband's, he and his wife had done it after seeing a naturopath. Even if you put the lemonade in the fridge it will still be spicy from the cayenne. I had it for one day just to try it out, I drank tons of the lemonade and tons of water and wasn't really hungry at all. That night though I got a horrible migraine (I don't think it was related to doing the cleanse as I am prone to migraines) and was so sick the next day I couldn't face drinking that. I think I might like to try it out sometime for the whole 10 days.

The latest posts are in 07. Someone was going to start it and report her success. Are you still out there? Did it work for you?

I don't see how there could be anything "magical" about drinking spicy lemonade.

I tried the Master Cleanse about a year ago, because I was feeling horrible, and was suffering from some very serious allergy/immune/inflammation issues which the doctors couldn't pinpoint.

I will say it was terrible drinking the lemonade and doing the cleanse!--but, I ended up feeling super. My skin cleared up (rosacea), and my allergy symptoms did not surface while on it. I tried to add back in foods one by one so I could try and isolate the problem. Never found out what it was, exactly, but was able to link some things to an increased chance of problems.

Having said that, since eating much healthier and cleaner on my current plan, I feel just as good, and the allergy issues and rosacea have decreased (but not gone away completely).

I don't think I'd do the cleanse again for various reasons.

A lot of people use the cleanse as a way to lose weight. It is a really, really bad idea to do that.

Hi,
I found this thread when lookinf for information on the cleanse. I am currently on the cleanse for detox reasons. This is the beginning of day 5 for me; things are going well. I do the laxitive tea at night saltwater in the morning, and lemonade during the day. I take a shot of 1 tsp. cayenne before each lemonade. I have actually grown to like the cayenne, it gives you a warm feeling for several hours. The whole thing is hard to do at first but by day 3 even drinking the salt water is easy.

Since I am near the beginning of the cleanse I have only seen intestinal cleansing type benefits so far. I am positve food is now gone from my system but with every dose of salt water, I get more cleaning. I am doing it with several friends who have seen some neat benefits. A lady who has eye irritation and vision problems due to a prescriprion medication went through a peroiod of blood shot eyes while on the fast the all of the previous drug side effects went away. Another guy who is a machinist and works in solvents and such had rash surface on his skin where these chemicals frequently come into contact with his body. They say the toxins will most likely leave by the same means they entered. By what I have seen this is true.

I say go for it if want to improve you health, but not for weight loss. It is a great way to make a lifestyle change. If nothing else I have already improved my self-control a great deal.

there are forums out there dedicated to this cleanse and have lots of answers. just google it if you are interested.

Jen, I just found this thread today and I wanted to share my experience with problems after gallbladder surgery. I had my gallbladder removed about 7 years ago after losing a lot of weight which led to gallstones (have since gained it back and more ). I never really noticed any problems until the fall last year. I was taking zoloft for anxiety but had to stop taking it for a sleep study. As soon as I stopped my digestive track went crazy and it was terrible. I started taking zoloft again for my anxiety and my digestive problems pretty much went away but I didn't think there was a connection.
I was sent to the gastroenterologist for low iron levels and they ran all kinds of tests and everything was fine. I had told them about my digestive syptoms but by the time the tests where done I was pretty much back to normal. So I told them about starting zoloft again. Turns out zoloft is prescriped for IBS also so that is what I was they think I have.
Since then I have heard of two other people I know that have IBS since their gallbladder was removed. Including my sister.

Thanks so much for that info. My husband has had so many problems since his gallbladder was removed, he is on a couple of anti-depressants that I think have helped overall. It is very frustrating for him and me as well when he has test after test and everything is negative for any particular condition. I think right now he is just accepting that things are about as good as they are going to get which really is too bad. He is not much into alternative methods of medicine. I was amazed when he agreed to try the cleanse!

I personally feel the human body is an amazing thing, and it gets rid of toxins in its own way, no need to fiddle about with all these products.

One thing "they" never tell you about is that after gallbladder removal surgery your body cannot handle some foods the same way. There is something called "dumping syndrome" which means if you eat certain things (especially greasy food) you will have an IMMEDIATE need to get to the bathroom. It takes at least a year and sometimes longer than that for your body to readjust and some people never do. Tell you husband to keep an eye on what types of food give him trouble. I had my gallbladder out years ago and there are things I just won't eat because of this and that they give me heartburn now as well.

Paula, I appreciate and respect your opinion but as someone who has done this cleanse I know how well it can work. I'm not sure that the human body does do it's job as well as it can because of the way we routinely abuse it the way most people do. I'm not talking about drugs exactly but that certainly is a factor for some people. There's also alcohol and cigarettes and even if you don't use those you probably injest more chemicals in the food you eat and lead a more sedentary lifestyle. If you think back except for the past century or so the human body was eating chemical free foods and was used to a lot of hard work everyday for survival. I think we need things like cleanses or whatever works for you because our bodies are not really doing the job they were meant to do. While the human spirit is adaptable our bodies are essentially unchanged. Or I could just say don't knock it until you've tried it. There's a lot of stuff people do that I don't necessarily believe in and wouldn't try myself but if it works for them then I say more power to them.