For whatever reason, I'd been having a hard time going to the bathroom. Maybe once every other day…read more For the record, I am an active runner, I walk my dog two hours a day, I'm not overweight, not sedentary, don't smoke or drink. I tried everything you can think of: warm lemon water with honey and ginger, warm prune juice, cold prune juice, room temperature prune juice, prunes (anywhere between 6 and 20 YES TWENTY), ginger, asparagus, apples, bananas, gummy probiotics, smooth move tea, milk of magnesia. Nothing worked except for once when I had TWO smooth move tea bags in one cup I did go quite a bit the next morning, but I really didn't want to have to rely on having two smooth move tea bags every day.
So I felt a bit desperate coming to Pure Colonics for the first time, which I honestly just found on Yelp. I was nervous it wouldn't work just like all the other things that hadn't.
I met with Gayatri who was so nice, calming, and easy-going. I'd had colonics before where they just leave you in the room alone to fend for yourself but this is not like that. Gayatri was with me the whole time, massaging my stomach and giving me all sorts of great advice on nutrition, diet, mental health, even finance. She gave me book recommendations, acted almost like a therapist (in a good way that was welcoming), and I left there with a bunch of good info. Obviously it's more expensive than smooth move tea, but I think it was a good bang for my buck.
In the five days since my colonic, I've gone once OR TWICE (!) a day, which is crazy for me. I'm down two pounds. I feel lighter. The only thing I've changed about my diet is that I've upped my fruit intake during the early part of the day, but other than that, I think it was the colonic that got things moving again.
This is a nice, clean, well-run place where I can tell they truly care. And IT WORKS. Thank you Pure Colonics, and thank you everyone for reading this long post about my pooping.