Hi Everyone,
Firstly, let me apologize for my absence. Car trouble, car fix, detox reaction, more car trouble, car trade-off, more detox reaction... It all added up to exhaustion and no time to report. So, please accept my apologies.
As for my report, I must confess that I've added Foot Detox Pads (the ultra grapefruit ones) purely out of curiosity. I hadn't ever had a detox reaction that others were reporting, so I figured my system must just be *stuck.* With that in mind, I set out to get a detox reaction. Now that I'm nearing the end of it, I wish that I had been a little more patient with myself. ::grins::
So, the first week I got the detox pads, I wore one per night, as instructed. My Hemp Oil Pulling was still going along nicely. My green finger cuticles were still in place. This was also my feminine cycle week.
The second week, I increased to two detox foot pads, as instructed. My Hemp OPing still doing wonderful things that I've already reported. My green finger cuticles were beginning to turn normal color by the end of the week.
The third week, I increased to three detox foot pads, as instructed. Hemp OPing still doing marvelous (I really enjoy the results of this oil). However, toward the end of the week, I began feeling ..not ill, exactly, but not well, either. I was tired and no amount of OPing helped it. No amount of my Alive! vitamins helped. On Friday, my sinuses filled up and I got a blistering headache that remained with me for the next 6 days. My emotions were just unstable. My stomach wanted nothing. Salt water started to taste sweet. I was breaking out with large acne spots all over my face, under the hair on my head, and all along my neck. I was dealing with my car's second breakdown on Saturday. :( It was extremely stressful.
The fourth week, this week, I have dropped back down to one foot pad each night. Yesterday, the stress, headache, and misery culminated into a cry-session for a half hour. I figured for sure I'd be all puffy this morning and not able to breath at all (sinus "infection" + crying = worse sinus "infection"). However, this morning upon awakening, I poured the Hemp Oil into my mouth to start swishing. 30-60 seconds later, I've got to blow my nose - and blow, and blow, and blow, and blow....! While swishing, my poor nose really took a "blowing." At the end of the pull, when I spit it out, I discovered that - for the first time (!) - the Hemp Oil was very nearly white and frothy. My head feels MUCH better today.
I guess sometimes a lady just needs a good cry and her Hemp Oil to take care of things.
::grins::
~FS
PS - this is in addition to my original post:
Just this morning, I took an Alive! pill. I hadn't noticed, but my urine hasn't been flourescent yellow for the last three weeks (weeks 2-4 of foot detox pads). This morning, I only noticed my urine because it *was* bright yellow.
Hmm.
I'm sure I'm not allergic and I think, from what Molly has said, she's not either. Each of us got a reaction from too many foot pads on at one time. The detox reaction subsided as soon as we backed off with them. For myself, I was up to 6 (!) each night - three on each foot, and got the reaction I described in my first post. I backed down to just one on each foot, and the reaction is subsiding. The OPing seems to aid the subsiding reactions, as it's cleaning up the aftermath quite nicely.
My foot pads are still coming back EWWW (dark brown, slimey, smelly) each morning. Even the reaction I had to my process (2 each night for a week, followed by 4 each night for a week, followed by 6 each night for a week) took 2 weeks and 5 days before I had a reaction. So, I don't think it's an allergic reaction to the foot pads - just to the toxins released into the blood stream that I requested of my body by using the foot pads.
~FS
Hi Molly,
Congratulations on taking the Hemp Oil plunge! I'm so glad that you tried it and are getting some of the same results I had/have! The Hemp Oil was like fast-tracking the OPing experience. Since I had been using Olive Oil before (3x in the morning, each 20 minutes) and not getting the same kinds of reactions I was reading about here, I tried the Hemp and got some reaction, but still nothing like a few of the people experience here.
Even the foot detox pads took nearly three weeks and a tremendous amount of stress/irritation/upset before they really worked. I'm beginning to wonder if I need to *consciously* set aside time to cry or "act out" my bottled up emotions so I can get unstuck.
I've had a habit, learned from a self-demanding Father whom I wanted to be *just like* when I grew up, of bottling any emotion up and sticking it on an imaginary shelf in my head. I was getting a detox reaction for six days and it remained the same for the six days, until that sixth night, I cut loose and had a good cry. After that, I've felt tremendously better. It leads me to wonder if, while we're OPing, we need to think about and *consciously* release into the oil all the negative emotions we've got for the previous day. The cry I had was very humiliating to me (a learned thing from Pa) and my brother (!) was there to witness my weakness. Surprisingly, my brother was very concerned about my cry and offered to do *something* to help.
I don't really know how to explain the correlation with the emotional overflow. It was like my emotion bucket got full and the overpouring was cleaned up by the oil. Maybe those who can get the green oils to go white and frothy are really very good/comfortable at releasing their negative emotions?
Apricot oil sounds interesting and delicious! I need to go find your posts about the results of it. Have you tried it all by itself or only in conjunction with the Hemp Oil?
Happy swishing,
~FS