Juicing Forum

I am on day four of a juice fast and I have been feeling fantastic! This isn't the first juice fast I've done, but the others that I've done included store-bought organic juices rather than home-juiced juices. I am following the 7-day plan that is provided on this website. (Which makes it so much less overwhelming that it was before I found it...the grocery list is so much help!)

I have developed a sore throat. Not the scratchy kind of sore throat, but the kind where one of my glands is swollen and it feels bruised on that side of my neck. I am not going to go to the doctor. Generally, when I feel something like this I eat garlic and drink water and it nearly always goes away. So, this morning I made a garlic/garlic/tomato/celery juice and chugged it down. I'm certain my co-workers are glad I am not leaving my desk much.

Do you have any other advice or has this happened to you before? I wondered if it may just be really overworked from all the cleansing?

Thank you!

Corina

I will definitely try that! Just to be clear, I feel like a million bucks other than the sore throat. I have lost nine pounds of unwanted waste and have more energy than I have had in years. I am sure that this little ailment will dissolve as quickly as it came about.

I will let you know what works!

The sore throat subsided before I could even get home and juice anything to try to clear it up. So, it must have been one of two things: a cold that attempted to get past my super-immunity and failed or a cold that got knocked out by my garlic/garlic/tomato juice blend from the morning. Either way, I am doing fine!

Just to chime in here...for years I was confusing sore throats and mouth sores as illness and canker-sores. When I was doing a 3 week smoothie regime, I realized that it was a mild allergy to bananas! Could you have juiced something that caused a reaction? Like I said, I went through this for about 30 years and it wasn't until I was drinking 4 smoothies a day for 3 weeks and ended up visiting the doctor twice in that time to be tested for strep throat that I finally made the connection. Now I am more aware and have discovered an aversion/mild allergy to kiwi and shrimp as well. After doing the 7 day juice cleanse, I have been super aware of my bodies reactions to the foods I am reintroducing!