If you have taken benzo drugs and other psycotropic drugs for any length of time, your liver is probably in tough shape. You'll probably be starting with the liver flushes like I had to do. The liver flushes of course are detoxifying. They, in themselves, will detox the benzo.

My experience is important to the rest of you.

When I came to the colon cleanse, essentially I spread it out over a 3 year period. Even that may be too fast a detox because the stuff is concentrated in the junk on your colon wall and all thru your abdomen. *See post above on that. You may have to spread the colon cleanse over even more time than I did. I took the benzo klonopin for 5.5 years at 2 mg/day. Then about 6 years ago, I was overloaded with them in the hospital because they were giving them to me for back pain. This was valium. I should have had a good chiropractor who could work on the disc that was hurting me so much instead of going to the hosptial for back pain from injury.

I wasn't able to wake up enough to know what they were doing to me, but I almost stopped breathing from them until they stopped them prior to my going home. At this point in time, my liver and colon both were in tough shape as it was about 3 years before I found Doc's program.

Then the detox symptoms started all over again once they pulled the drug when I was to be discharged. I had detoxed from klonopin 6 years before that. The doctor who prescribed them for me in the hospital knew I was a "recovering benzo addict". I feel it's necessary to give details. You all need to know how this happened. Doctors do NOT CARE if you are a recovering benzo addict or not. They will still give them to you.

You CAN'T detox a benzo too fast or your body will not be able to handle the symptoms. It is all through the CNS, too, and that affects every single system of your body. Both sympathetic and parasympathetic. The only thing I know how to do is add the charcoal that will adsorb the stuff in the intestines and abdominal cavity right now.

So, in conclusion, if you're in bad shape with the colon and liver when you start this program, you HAVE to do the liver flushes, but when it comes to the colon, monitor your benzo detox symptoms and take whatever time it takes to clean out the colon and keep the detox symptoms to where you can handle them. The reason being your body is very intelligent and doesn't want these drugs in it, so when the cellular detox comes into play--AFTER your colon and liver are clean--it will want to get rid of the drugs ASAP. You may find this too much to deal with. Right now I am doing 3 tspoonfulls of charcoal a day in water, divided a way away from food. I'm just able to deal with the detox of these awful drugs. It is VERY debilitating and something you do NOT want to go thru once you know how to avoid it.

Please take heed. These drugs are quite different from other drugs and cause very bad detox symptoms. They are made in a laboratory and are not like the natural opiates to detox off of. To my knowledge there is no antidote for the drugs. In the hospital they give you Depakote to stop seizures when they pull the drug. We do not take any drugs with this program. The detox symptoms can be life threatening, if the drug comes out too fast.

No one had paved the way before my experience with this to tell me what would happen. So, if you find yourself in this category, be very careful of how fast you detox your colon before the WHOLE BODY, CELLULAR detox off the benzos start. In my best judgment, get the activated chacoal in place when you start this program. You may not be able to percieve the fact that your detox symptoms are benzo realted for quite a while into this program. Be mindful of this and monitor yourself for them and do the colon cleanse at a pace that will keep this under control.

Right now I know of no other way to deal with this problem while doing the program here. Doc Sutter has been alerted of this problem and is doing some research on it.

A little more about drugs. I've noticed that every drug ever given to anybody wil cover up the sympoms of that particular problem and accentuate or rapidly increase the time it takes you to develop any problem that may be associated with your condition. A good example of this would be: cholesterol lowering drugs help you acquire heart problems a lot sooner than you would have if you hadn't taken them. Certain drugs destroy the pancreas. Zyprexa comes to mind. There are collective lawsuits going on all the time in relation to the terrible effects the drugs cause. All drugs destroy the liver and give you one condition right on top of another that the doctors will tell you it's YOUR body causing the problems when in fact it's all the drugs doing this. That gives them a chance to pile on more and more drugs until your liver and whole body start to shut down from the poisons.

Getting back to the benzo detox, make sure you are doing this to body tolerance when you start this program if you are one who has been very benzo poisoned in the past. You can't overdose on charcoal; you can take too little in certain circumstances needed to get the poisons out in an emergency situation. But when you're cleaning out your body you can push the whole body detox too fast. YOu've lived with these poisons in you for a long time, so this isn't an emergency situation of getting them out so fast, UNLESS they enter the bloodstream and start causing seizures. Seizures can happen if these drugs come out of the CNS too fast. So my recommendations is to do charcal to body tolerance with all the toxins that are in the system.

I have no idea of why the initial benzo detox symptoms stop and you dont really feel them for years after you think you have detoxed off them. The only thing I can think of is that the liver and colon is in too bad of a shape for the detox to go on at any rate of speed. The body does detox these very slowly and almost imperceptably over time if you're not cleaning out. But they are still concentrated in every cell in your body and will cause your body to eventually shut down. That was what almost happened to me at the beginning of this program.

Another one of my experiennces thru this is that I got knocked out cold for 3 days when I got rid of 10# of colon junk in one week. That's the result of the benzo toxins leaving too fast, hence the reason for using the charcoal and getting the level down in the body as your body can tolerate over time. It's a good indication of how much was concentrated in the colon junk I had.

These poisons are very, very sneaky. Be careful and do everything to body tolerance in getting out the poisons.

I've tried to think this out and hope all information I am giving is correct. It seems to me to be what happens over a period of time while going thru this program and also what happens at the end with the too fast, cellular detox off these drugs.

Another thought. Do the charcoal around the liver flushes. Do NOT allow the poisons of these drugs coming out of the liver to re-circulate. The body will have a very difficult time dealing with it. They will be added to the poisons of these drugs you already have concentrated in the colon wall junk. These are my findings. I believe them to be correct.

EDIT: Personally, I don't dislike doctors as people, I just think they all should be working in natural healing and helping people get well instead of poisoning them.