do you flush more often than every 2-3 weeks??
I've read that flushing any more then that can irritate the liver.

Other than that, I wouldn't know but would love to find out :)

I have felt that my liver struggled a time or two between flushes. The flush purged any number of things including sludge, stones, chaff and toxins. The purge is dramatic with a flush and could cause a "shock" to the organ.

My question would be, what is your diet like? Do you eat foods that feed and nourish your body or stress and deplete the body; alcohol, soda, sweetened fruit juices, energy drinks, processed and\or microwaved foods etc. etc.? The more foods and drink you ingest that stress the body and deplete it, the more likely you are to have problems before, during and after a flush, most specifically following a flush.

The other dietary component to this is minerals... whenever we cleanse we deplete our bodies of minerals and MUST eat\drink a mineral rich diet. I believe that magnesium is essential for healthy liver\kidney function; do a search and read up on magnesium. WOmen usually take calcium like crazy causing a great magnesium imbalance.

While we do use Epsom Salts in the flush, this type of magnesium is (so I am told) poorly absorbed for use by the body. Since we are megadosing on it, I am sure, for a few days anyway we may get what we need... Be sure to get plenty of fresh leafy greens and green juices in your diet.

grz

Yes; n my experience and in other people that have posted here.

The reasoning is that congestion in the liver which can be quite toxic has been disturbed by the flush. This temporarily contaminates parts of the liver for a short while until the body can neutralise the infection.

The inflammation clears within a week and in 2 to 3 weeks you are in a condition to flush again.

Congratulations on your first flush, princessjade! It's the scariest one, since, no matter how much you might have read up on it, you really don't know how your body is going to handle it. Now you know!

Telman's response sounds right.

Another point to consider: With all sorts of matter suddenly being ejected through the bilary tubes, including semi-hard stones, the tubes themselves are likely to be irritated. Imagine rubbing something against your wrist, hard and fast. It will get red. If you keep doing that for 20 minutes (the length of time it takes for the initial release of stones, toxins and other materials) it will get red and inflamed. I would imagine something like that is happening throughout the bilary tubes in the liver.

What can you do about it? I've found two things which work well to help the liver heal. A liver cleanse complex (with a large collection of liver-friendly herbs) and milk thistle (usually one of the herbs included in the complex). I take the cleanse complex as recommended on the bottle, and take milk thistle in addition to that when I feel twinging in the main bile duct area. While I don't actually feel pain, I do feel twinges and a sensation like a knitting needle jammed where it has no rightful business being - under the right forward edge of my rib cage. These supplements have been very helpful in reducing and eliminating the twinges.

Good luck on your next flush!