Your body needs time to rebuild your probiotics and balance your electrolytes between flushes. You really do need to space them out every 2-4 weeks. Also if you space them out farther, more sludge will have time to move down and be flushed out next time, so you'll be more productive if you use patience.
BELIEVE me, I understand the pain issues caused by a congested liver and gallbladder. If you go back and read my "R" posts, you will find me referring to "only hurting when i breathe" ... "feeling like I had a basketball stuffed inside my ribcage" ... "rubbing the tip of my breastbone until it was sore"
Things I did to cope naturally with this pain between flushes:
Lemons were probably my best friend back then ... still are today as a matter of fact ... they are liver food.
I kept organic lemons in my desk drawer at work and in my fridge at all times. I'd drink barely hot water with the juice of 1 lemon anytime that I got uncomfortable ... which was pretty much everyday, all day long.
Sometimes I'd drink the almost hot water with raw apple cidar vinegar ... sometimes this was added to my lemon water.
Sometimes I'd drink warm water with a pinch of epsom salts.
When nothing was working, I mixed all 3 together.
As you flush, you will see that the good days become more and the bad days become fewer and farther between. You'll start to see that the last few days before your next scheduled flush, your liver will be telling you IT'S TIME!!!!
Kim, I never got around to trying Dr Natura ... I tried fiber cleansers, they didn't work for me ... I tried oxygen cleansing, it worked as far as cleansing, but did NOTHING for rebuilding my digestive system. I read Dr Christopher's newsletter on colon health and read about his formula and just about immediately found the Ask Barefoot forum here ... MH makes Dr Christopher's formula more like the Dr Christopher than the company that is making his formulas today, so I went with that and have been on it for over a year now. My colon health is better today than ever in my life.
Probiotics are friendly bacteria that one gets from organic fruits and vegetables and grows in the digestive tract if one gives them the opportunity. I've never taken a single probiotic pill and I've gone from not digesting anything I ate to RARELY ever not digesting something I eat.
MH/barefoot had me go on a diet that I finally got over 50% raw fruit by explaining to me that fruit is the easiest food for the body to digest and he's right. I get my energy and my feelgood from fruit. I'm studying raw nutrition presently and have progressed enough in my healing that I've added greens, unsweet fruits and nuts to my diet and do fine as long as I don't allow cheating to overtake me! (Old habits die hard). Here's an example: it's halloween ... work threw us a party .. ice cream, cupcakes, candy (hello, my name is marilyn and I'm a chocoholic)!! Heck yeah, I had some of all of it!!!! At time to leave work tonight, I could not go get in the car and drive home ... my car wasn't in the ladies room!!!!!!!! Foods labeled mucus-forming make me poop mucus shortly after eating them now. My body doesn't want that garbage in there!!!! I'm not sick, no cramping or anything like that ... my body just purges it!!!!!
Let us know how you're doing and what helps you in particular as we all get through this together, ok?