pollen allergy or cleanse????? [Archive] - The Master Cleanse / Raw Food Bulletin Board

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February 18th, 2006, 01:01 AM

Is this spring pollen allergy that hit today...all the typical symptoms
and a little bit early in the season, but we have had a MILD winter.
OR....are all these symptoms of the cleanse? I have begun sneezing,
teeth hurting, sinus pain, neck pain and all the similar allergy to tree
pollen reaction. Today is day 2 and the questions is.....Pollen or
lemonade?

Anyone have this happen on about day 1.5? I have followed the program exactly....all the water, SWF, and lemonade....Haachooooooo

Please advise before I have a total allergy arrest.

What is advised about taking allergy arrest herbs when things are full blown allergy attacks and heading into a sinus infection if no intervention?

Talk fast....please!

sopheetsa

February 18th, 2006, 03:02 PM

Dear lemonade lady!

Unfortunately, no one can advise you on what to do, because nobody knows your body and your circumstances better than you do! What I can tell you is what I went through, and what I decided to do, but think for yourself what's best for you!

I started this cleanse in a deep allergic reaction because my house boiler had backed up. If I weren't extremely chemically sensitive, we would have all been dead due to carbon monoxide poisoning (which is odorless) but all the other chemicals that were spewing out of the thing (which clogged up the pipe for going on a month) had made me feel awful for over month, and the day the pipe completely clogged up-- I was lucky to be able to tell the difference, and realize there was a problem. The whole month prior I thought I was just sick-- becaause I also was getting sick. That night, it was a good thing I didn't dose myself with NYQUIL-- which I had been doing...

Subsequent to that (it happened on the day before Thanksgiving) I couldn't get through the night without dosing myself with anti-histamines. Now it sounds like you're way better than me because you're on "allergy arrest herbs" and not prescription antihistamines-- by which I don't mean you're in better shape-- but you're doing better wholistically speaking! The part about "full blown allergy attacks and heading into a sinus infection if no intervention" SOUNDS REALLY SCARY! :)-- and I wouldn't want to advise you to do something and then be WRONG!

What I decided to do-- was first of all to TRUST the Cleanse, which includes not take ANYTHING ELSE, ie in my case to go cold turkey on the antihistamines and then, when I was waking up night after night after night (on the Cleanse) with my nose running so that I had longer than foot long phlegm coming out of me-- hangin from my nose-- I decided to THINK IT WAS A DETOX SYMPTOM and that my BODY NEEDED TO DO THIS IN ORDER TO CLEANSE!

It got to the point where I actually got to sleep the whole night through, for which I was profoundly grateful.

On the other hand, I've recently started having "allergy/detox" symptoms all over again. Somewhat of a long story to tell right now.

What I would suggest if you want to go this route-- is to keep plenty HYDRATED & to maintain physical activity to help *let the FLOW happen so that it doesn't get stopped up and trapped and turn into a "sinus infection".

Finally: part of why I undertook the Cleanse in the first place, was to GET RID of my allergies, and because I had heard, even from conventional sources, that fasting can "re-set the immune system" and heal allergic conditions. I also knew that part of why allergies happen is that they are an indication of a "system in toxic overload" and what the Cleanse is all about is DETOXING the system. On the other hand, people who are "highly toxic" have a harder time of it. Usually we develop various coping mechanisms-- because things are so hard! I hope that you can find that you can trust the Cleanse to help you detox your allergies away! But I can't promise it will do that. I can only say that I think it is helping with mine!

Best of luck on your healing journey, keep posting! You might want to try going on the "2006 What day are you on and how are you doing? " under the "The Master Cleanse Board" where there are generally more people!

Sophie