There are natural colon buster diets you can find on the internet that seem to work very well. I will try to find some links.

And from what I've read, the "high colonic" may use caffeine, so what you experience as great high or wonderful feeling upon being cleansed is just a nice buzz.

Go to Trader Joe's and buy some dried fruit, be good to you body, and stick around!

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.....hugging bunnies since 1969
www.daphneszoo.com

I agree with Mother, never cleanse the colon while sitting on a fence. That would be an offence. Okay, I thought it was funny.
My take on colonic cleansing is from a historical view - quarks have been pushing it as a necessary remedy for years. The problem with frequent enemas is that your body comes to depend upon them. Same with laxatives. If it were so necessary, docs would be encouraging the use of colonic cleansing. Instead increase your intake of fiber. Its better for you.

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"Vini, Vidi, Vomiti" (we came, we saw, we got sick on the plane")

Quacks not quarks. I suck at typing while riding the fence during a colonic cleanse cycle.

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"Vini, Vidi, Vomiti" (we came, we saw, we got sick on the plane")

I agree that quacks have been recommending it for years, but I would not agree with the idea that something is not necessary just because doctors don't recommend it. I do not trust the esbablishment medical mainstream. They are too tied up in big pharma, insurance companies and narrow thinking.

Mary Mary was going to a place that blew water up her ass. She like it fine for a while, but one day they turned the water up too hot and burned the inside of her tuckus. She has never gone back.
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Sir SamDamnit!
The Emir of Crapistan

The only one I've had any real results with is this one www.drnatura.com. It's a little pricey and tedious, but it works well.

I think this colonic irrigation fad is mad, unless you have a real problem. Why hose out your good bacteria?

Another colonic input I read of recently was of an American alcoholic whose stomach couldn`t cope with the alcohol anymore without great pain. He started to feed his addiction by pouring the booze into himself via a funnel and rubber tube through his asshole into his rectum/colon. He died soon after of an overdose after he requested his wife to pour a couple of bottles of strong sherry through his sorry bung.

Nothing gets it done like Fleet's Phospho Soda. I once took two full bottles of the stuff (which tastes a lot like diarrhea) and within about 15 minutes, I had a turbo shit unlike anything I have experienced before or since. I don't know exactly what the Fleet's did in my bowels, but it sent about five pounds of liquified dook blasting out of my ass and into (and onto) the toilet at around 50 PSI. A huge amount of turd actually splashed back onto my ass and sent a spray of brown across the back of the toilet seat as the jet of doo hit the water. These bursts of diarrheal mayhem went on for about three or four minutes, and left me utterly exhausted once the chaos had subsided. I wound up having to make four or five more mad dashes to the restroom before the Fleet's finally wore off, and let me tell you, I was shitting WATER by the time it was over.

It was the ultimate colonic.

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"...human shit has more of an almond, or perhaps a macadamia flavor to it. I hope you will all take my advice and really consider tasting your poop some time, as I have. It's really quite an experience." - Ratz

Use nitrocellulose. Its explosive action will blow the shit right out, and it has a high fiber content as well.

I suffered from IBS-C for 17 years. I started using Dr. Natura in 2/2006, I have had minimal IBS symptoms all year. But the Dr. Natura is a very redundant and time consuming cleanser. Another favorite cleaner of mine is Sonee # 7. If you decide to use this, mix it with fruitjuce (if taken straight, it tastes like a mouthfull of mud), also, you need to drink lots and lots of water while using Sonnee # 7. If you don't, you can become impacted. Ultimatlety, it all comes down to which method works best for the individual.

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Jammin' lo'flo's since 1977.

I did a colon cleansing routine last year, with a product that I saw in a tv infomercial. I started writing a PR about it, but never finished.

My friend makes a colon cleanse she says helps a lot of folks with IBS. http://1meta-colon-cleanse.com/
I've used it a couple of times. It gives you those nice big fluffy poops that make you feel like you've really accomplished something.

I am going to try the ultimate colon cleansing product. This site is awesome. I may even buy a poop t-shirt!

Years ago, before actually getting my hands dirty in patient care, I got my feet wet by working in medical records.

I have read countless surgical reports relating to all different kinds of procedures.

Any time there was mention of the intestines in a surgical report that did not involve a bowel obstruction or impaction to begin with, there was no mention of abnormal build-up of fecal matter in the nooks and crannies of any of these patients-- other than in cases of appendicitis, where some shit that took a wrong turn can become trapped and cause the infection to fester which results in the attack.

As a rule, any time a surgeon has you opened up for surgery and something abnormal is found during the procedure, it will be addressed at that time if possible.

If necessary, a follow-up procedure to tend to the newly found affliction will be scheduled or at least discussed with the patient and noted in the chart somewhere.

I have never seen a medical record that indicated the discovery of an accumulation of muck in the pipes requiring immediate cleaning, or even a recommendation for the patient to use a colon cleansing product as part of any post-operative instructions.

I have also read many autopsy reports. Pretty much everything gets mentioned in this report from hair and eye color, height and weight, appearance and weight of each organ, stomach contents, genitalia, skin condition, etc.

If there is nothing abnormal found in any of these things, it is usually just noted as "unremarkable".

Never have I read an autopsy report that stated something along the lines of "and there was 10 pounds of fecal matter adhered to the intestinal lumen--possibly accumulated over the last 25 years of life"...

I honestly believe that if you were to empty the contents of one of these colon cleansing products that claim to make you shit out what appears to be your entire gastrointestinal tract and all kinds of oddly shaped parasites, eggs and any extraterrestrial inhabitants you may be harboring into a bucket of water, put a lid on it for 24 hours and go back and check it, my guess is that there would be a bucket full of that stringy, gloppy, intestine-like shit that would come out of your ass if you consume that crap.

But that is just my humble opinion. I am not a doctor or anything as you well know.
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Always looking out for number two!

I actually had a job for about six months doing autopsies. My job involved removing the internal organs, the brain, and the spinal cord for presentation to the pathologists. One of the less tasty parts of the job was having to empty out the entire g.i. tract. Not once, out of about 100 autopsies, did I see anything remotely resembling the stuff that these colon cleansing folks want you to believe is building up in your bowels.
The hospital I worked in was a teaching hospital that took in quite a few unusual cases. It was uncommon for the doctors to seek permission to autopsy the patients who died of relatively mundane illnesses or disease. So, I got to see a good number of cases involving patients who had endured prolonged hospitalization or complex surgery. One would have expected to see some bizarre accumulations in some of their intestines, like those long, stringy things, or those tarry laminations, or any of the other stuff that some would have you believe are lurking within the walls of our bowels and dragging down our health. The worst I might have seen were some near-rock hard turds and maybe some evidence of g.i. blood, but nothing that would have driven me to hosing out the works as a preventative measure.
Regardless, I have occasionally used psyllium husk colon cleansers, because they seem to produce impressive ropes of smooth-sliding turd. Otherwise, a decent amount of fiber and water in my diet and I'm "good to go".

I recently had to go in for some medical tests. One of which was called an intravenous pyeologram(sp.). Basically during the test they inject you with a contrast material, then take a series of pictures as your body disposes of the contrast. As prep for this I had to go get a "Fleet pack" and not eat for 24 hours.

Basically what a fleet pack is is 3 different kinds of laxatives. When I saw this I was upset but atleast it wasn't "the dreaded contraption"(enema).

About two hours into the fleet pack I was on the toilet literally every 10 minutes for the rest of the 24 hour period. My point is, you want to get your colon cleansed, that's fine, I just don't think you should even consider the possibility that it might be a pleasant experience.

There are indeed some harsh colon cleansers out there. My recommendation would be to try P&B shakes instead.. hint: make your own using Psyllium Husk and Bentonite Clay you can buy from your nearby health store... they're better than buying a commercial product

I hear Bentonite Clay is not good so read up before using.

A colon cleanse would be definitely be beneficial for you. However, check with your doctor before you use an over the counter solution.

I had a colonoscopy last year and was able to watch the procedure on the monitor, a scenic trip up the old asshole. I had a
laxative to prepare me for the procedure and noticed nothing unusual coming out.
My gut looked healthy and I saw no poop
residue that colon cleansing is purported to remove.

I eat a diet high in fiber, low in red meat,
high in fish and high in booze. This seems to work for me.

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Eat chilies and feel the burn!!