Hello! I'm on day 15 of my fast and feeling on top of the world energy wise. Prior to the fast I ate a lot of juicy fruits and also incorporated some coconut oil and hemp oil, which I normally never do. I had read that this would help the body quickly enter ketosis. Also, the first 5 days of the fast were dry as I just drink to thirst and I wasn't thirsty. Well, I started vomiting and having bowel movements on day 6 and 7. I didn't know if this was a good sign, detoxing, as this happened once before on a previous fast. This time I couldn't stop trembling, especially my lower jaw, my teeth were chattering but I had no fever and wasn't cold. I alarmed me and I asked my husband to get some gatorade, since drinking water just wasn't helping. I finished the bottle of gatorade and switched to distilled water which I have been drinking since. I suppose I am questioning if I should have incorporated the oils in my diet prior to the fast and also if this was detox should I have rode it out. Any thoughts would be appreciated as to what this was and if my course of action was wise as this this something I had never experienced on prior fasts.
Ketosis begins in earnest when the stores of glycogen and glucose are almost depleted, so consuming hemp and cocunut oils to bring this on more quickly is an old wives tale as it were.
Vomiting and BM's can occur to anyone at any stage of a fast and where the former is considered to be a crisis of sorts. Vomiting usually lasts not more than a day or two and where much mucus and bile are thrown out. It is a cleaning-out process.
Shelton comments that he does not regard vomiting as a danger signal, but as a cleansing process.
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"As vomiting is merely part of the elimination that fasting encourages, most often due to overactivity of the liver with regurgitation of bile into the stomach, it needs only to be let alone. It may develop early or late in the fast, but it constitutes no danger, so far as my own experience and observations go".
Efforts to break a fast while the patient is vomiting are futile, even harmful. "Only God could break a fast," wrote Dr. Dewey, in a personal letter to Hereward Carrington, dated March 26, 1903, "where there is a sick stomach and there is no time to let nature perform the task". http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020127shelton.III/020127.ch28.htm
The trembling you speak of is the result of nervous prostration/exhaustion caused by the energy needed by the body to vomit, but should pass in a short while if you rest: but you MUST rest.
The oils were of no benefit for the fast, and indeed may have contributed to the cause of your vomiting by stimulating the Liver and Gallbladder in releasing more bile: the usual constituent of vomit on a fast.
You should really have "ridden it out" as breaking a fast under these circumstances can be decidedly harmful and sometimes has been known to be fatal.
Please please take advice before deciding to break a fast.
Since no one else replied I am appreciative you took the time to do so. It dissappoints me I did such a disservive to my body by not letting it do what it needed to do. I did not realize the harm I could have done by interruping that process. I had always fasted with little discomfort and believe I grew a quite cavalier with my approach to fasting. I'm glad I did not pay an extreme price. The reading you provided was quite informative. I have been resting as you advised,which I was not doing,and will heed your advice on using the utmost care upon breaking the fast. Fasting is a serious undertaking and I believe I've had an awakening to that fact. Sometimes a scare makes you open your eyes a little wider. Thanks again.
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