Liver Cleanse side effects

[nursenancy64]

Can a liver cleanse be harmful in relation to cardiac history?  Accompanied symptoms: nose bleed, neck & headache pain persistant for 3 days.

[kenkeith]

Acai Berry promotion has many justified claims against it as a scam. You are expressing serious debilatating symptoms that shoud be evaluated by your doctor.  The success of losing the weight of 77 pounds may have compromised normal functionality with unwanted or unknown side effects.

Do see a doctor!  Take care and sorry for your ill feeling.  

Take care.

[nursenancy64]

Well, I've been off my liver cleanse since the first of the month and yesterday, I felt so bad, I didn't get out of bed at all.  Pressure in my chest, so exhausted that I kept catching myself every few minutes, taking a diaphram-forces cleansing breathe.  My heartbeat was excessive to the point that I noticed it.
Today I feel much better.  A little winded from house cleaning, but a far cry from yesterday.  My brother, who is a medic on a Level I trauma chopper.  He knows what kind of hours I work and the demands of my schedule.  He thinks I might have a virus, or at the very least, I'm just really run down.
I'm sick and tired of being sick & tired.  Even my patients are noticing that I'm not at full power.

[nursenancy64]

thanks for your input on the liver clease.  You seem to make a lot of sense.  I have a question on a sidenote regaurding this website.  I spent the good part of an hour taking the medical questionaire and paid to receive the results.  I haven't received anything and was wondering if you knew how I could retrieve the info that I paid for.

My chest pains, arrythmias and nausea have subsided 30% after ceasing to take the liver cleanse tablets, but I'm still getting very tired, sleepy and out of breath doing nothing.  I lay down but never can fall asleep w/o my prescription meds.

Happy weekend KK,
Njones

[ed34]

I'm surprised you have a liver left. I thought the FDA warned people last year to stop taking these products because they were causing lots of damage to the body, including the Liver. I believe someone even died using hydroxycut and several became critically ill. Doctors are saying the claims for these products are overstated, the research is unfounded, and the products are in fact very dangerous.
Acai Berry, well again, there is no scientific proof to back up any claims made about this fruit. I'm not sure what happens, someone hails that something is great, everybody suddenly wants some, and companies bottle it to get rich. All with no proof. I've even seen claims that this berry increases the size of the male genetalia, but I dont believe it.

[nursenancy64]

Well, the product I chose to take is Hydroxy-cut no caffiene appetit suppresent.  I've lost 77 pounds in a year.  So now I wanted to liver cleanse.  I'd heard so much good about the Acai Berry, so I bought Natrol brand cleanse.  Its a 3 part-er.  Clease for 3 days - detox for 7 days and replenish for 7.  I was fine the first few days and then I developed nausea and non-fever flu symptoms.  Along with that I notice that I NEW MY HEART WAS POUNDING, . . . like I heard it in my ears.  I felt like I was choking and I had no desire for food.  My BP was 174/85 - pulse 118 upon waking.  This was a consistant average for three days.  just walking to the bathroom, getting a shower and putting my face on, I was out of breath and would have to lie down.  Muster up some energy and hit it again.  Little by little I was able to get out the door and off to work.
I know that fatty liver disease can cause hypertension and the fact that I've been a bp 90/60 /pulse 80 girl for as long as I can remember, I knew this wasn't normal.
I have a no fever flu like symptoms.  
I have a cardiac history of a mytro-valve regurg.  Lots of fainting, confusion when I come to and no memory of the event.  Eventually I had a mild MI. July 2007
So there's the picture.  I've been off the liver cleanse program and I'm back to eating cooked things.  I was on a total raw diet for this test.  I am feeling a little more like myself and less like my friends are gonna come by and find that I had another MI, This time fatal or worse, with the vitals as they were, a stroke. I don't have time for all that.  I have patients who need me.
By the way - just for stats sake, I am a : 42yr/F PT w/16 yr history of FMS, 5'8", 135#'s, thin, diabetic non-insulin dependant, diet controlled,

25 yr history of Chronic, dibillatating insomnia

30 yr history of eating disorder (anorexia) that appears to be under control at this time.  Over the last year PT has lost 57 pounds using Hydroxy-cut.  No side effects from the drug.  PT doesn't take the recommended dosage.  Takes only 2 in the a.m.
(recommended is2/a.m. - 2 p.m. - 1 bedtime
I hate getting out of bed and going to the closet and not being able to catch my breath.  Constant arythmia, occasionally tachy @174.
History of Postoral Syncope w/petit mal seizures

Thanks for your consideration

[kenkeith]

The theory, but not confirmed by any medical studies.
"There has been the occasional person who did not understand my theories on the liver, and in particular one reader thought it was impossible to cleanse the liver, believing that this was unscientific! However, it is vitally important to cleanse the liver regularly because, like any filter, it can become overloaded and blocked with excessive waste products. Just think about what happens if you do not cleanse the filters in your kitchen sink, lawn mower, pool-pump or car engine. It would be easy if you could remove your liver everyday and give it a good wash with soap and water! This is obviously not possible, so we need to come up with a more practical solution. I have found that an effective way to cleanse the liver filter is by eating certain foods and using natural supplements and liver tonics. These nutrients include anti-oxidants, essential fatty acids, essential amino acids, enzymes, natural antibiotics and plant substances (phytonutrients). These nutrients also exert an anti-cancer effect and help the immune system".

If this is the protocol for the liver cleansing you are referring, there wouldn't be any cardiac issue involved, nor explain the symptoms you have posted. You may want to seek professional consultation for your symptoms....3 days with symptoms usually indicates something that may require treatment.  
Thanks for your question, and if you have any further questions, you are welcome to respond.  Take care.

[Flycaster305]

Why are you taking meds to cleanse the liver?  I'd also pose the question, how does a drug regimen cleanse the liver.
The liver is an organ that can repair itself, it makes considerable sense to me to avoid things that could injure the liver and let it repair itself.

[ed34]

Can you be a bit more specific. Are you talking of a gallbladder flush? have you had stones? have you been taking antitoxin agents sold on the internet which say they cleanse the Liver? The only liver cleansing I know of is herbal remedies.