What is getting a colonic like?

I felt slightly uncomfortable during the colonic, mostly because it feels exactly like going to the bathroom, and it felt "wrong" to be laying a table and not sitting on a toilet. A few times during the colonic, I got a bloated feeling and felt flushed, much like one does while passing a large stool on the toilet.

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Because the writer's job is to write about what he or she knows, it's sometimes necessary in this profession to experience something you probably wouldn't do in your personal life in order to write an accurate story. For example, in 1959, John Howard Griffin ingested large doses of an anti-vitiligo drug and spent days under an ultraviolet light to darken his skin tone so he could write the highly acclaimed book "Black Like Me." In late 2007, Current TV journalist Kaj Larsen volunteered to be water-boarded to help viewers understand the controversial torture technique.

And today, in order to write this article, I got a colonic.

Colonics -- also called colonic hydration and colon hydrotherapy -- are slightly controversial. They are not as controversial as water torture, but generally, health care providers have different opinions on their effectiveness. Most Western doctors do not believe colonics provide healthy benefits, but colonic practitioners say a variety of illnesses stem from an accumulation of fecal matter in the large intestines. Colonics might help with constipation (some from prescription drugs), carbohydrate indigestion, diarrhea, gas, bloating, hemorrhoids, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, diverticulitis, colitis, parasites, skin conditions such as psoriasis, shingles and eczema, inability to lose weight, scar tissue and adhesions from surgery. I have none of the above, but heard that colonics are good for proactive health, that you feel really "clean" afterwards and you might loose a few pounds and / or have a flatter stomach. This was enough for me to give it a whirl. Milwaukee isn't loaded with colon hydro therapists. (OK, I realize I just used the verb "loaded," but from this point forward, I am going to try not to include poopy plays-on-words in this article.) Eventually, I found a few names online and in the phone book, and made an appointment with Sue Domer who runs a business called Nature's Balance. When I arrived for my colonic, I filled out a medical form and chatted with Domer about my diet and bowel movements. Then, she brought me to a room that looked like a small massage room, with a table and, among other items, a large plastic container. I removed my jeans and undergarments, laid down on the table and covered up with a sheet. Then, Domer came in, inserted a lubed proctoscope in my rear, and almost immediately replaced the proctoscope with a tube that was connected to the container. For my colonic, Domer used the Woods Gravity Force Method. Most modern colon therapists use machines to administer a colonic, but Domer prefers the old school method which features a large container propped above the person getting the colonic, allowing gravity to direct the water downward and into the person's anus.

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"Some of my clients have said they get a more complete release through (the Woods system)," says Domer, 52, who was certified in colon hydrotherapy 20 years ago through the Woods Hygienic Institute in Kissimmee, Fla. (The school was in Illinois when Domer attended.) At first, I felt water flowing into my lower gut for about five minutes (and this varies from person to person), followed by warm liquid coming out of my body. This, I was told, is stool. Throughout the course of the colonic, Domer switched between injecting cool water and draining out the warm watery waste. In some settings, colonic clients can actually see the feces flow through the tube, but because of the set-up of the room I was in, I didn't actually see my waste. I admit I was slightly curious, like after I used ear candles and had to unroll the tip of the candle to check out the Milk Dud-sized ball of wax that came out of my ear. Gross, but oddly fascinating.

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