Don't warry lilacsophia you are going to get one, be patient.It doesn't feel good I know.

Should you be worried--absolutely not. I'm 100 percent certain worry never accomplished anything--and it only steals your energy and makes you tense :-) Seriously though, everything according to its own time.

lilacsophia,
day 9 of your fast and no BM?
You have nothing whatsoever to be concerned about.


"After the digestion of the last meal prior to the fast, the bowels practically cease to function. They take a rest. Dr. Oswald says: "The colon contracts, and the smaller intestines retain all but the most irritating ingesta." Sometimes they will continue to move regularly for the first three or four days of the fast. In rare cases a diarrhea will develop even after fifteen or more days of fasting. Mark Twain describes cases of starving shipwrecked men whose bowels had not moved for twenty and thirty days. For this reason most advocates of fasting insist upon the daily use of the enema. I think that the enema is a distinct evil and should not be employed..........

Bowel action is necessarily more or less absent during a fast. There may be two or three actions during the course of a comparatively short fast, or no action at all during a most prolonged fast. The use of the enema during the fast, so much advocated in many quarters, is both unnecessary and pernicious. How unnecessary it is will be shown by the following cases"................................
http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020127shelton.III/020127.ch13.htm


Chrisb1.

This might be normal because I didn't have an initial BM until my 8th day. After the first week, I now tend to have them about every three days.

FYI - I drink about 5 quarts of water a day, only because I'm thirsty. Also, I found a great, alcohol free mouthwash called "biotene." It gets rid of the nasty film like substance in your mouth and leaves your breath fresh for hours....Way beter than the caustic listerine.