My first ever 72h fast. Diarrhea after break the fast. Please correct my mistakes.
Male. 39 yo. 84 Kg. 184 cm.
Purpose of the fast:
- try if my prostatitis gets better
- detox: recently floxed with cipro so wanna try if I get better from my achilles pain. Also have been on fluconazole for 8 days.
- general health
- new experience
I’ve been doing keto and IF for the last year. Now and then I’ve done 24 h fasting too.
During my fasting I’ve haven’t taken electrolytes as it is not a very long fast. Also I was feeling perfectly both mentally and physically.
I broke the fast with bone broth (I added some ACV to it). I drank about 750 ml in a 45 minutes time frame. Maybe to much? Maybe too fast?
1 hour after the bone broth I ate few grilled chicken breast.
Almost inmediately I have water like diarrhea. Which has lasted the whole night.
Today I’ve taken bone broth again and so far not having diarrhea.
Can you please tell me why I am getting diarrhea? What are my mistakes?
I found that unless I broke fast with a high sulphur food, I got “launch me to the moon” explosive diarrhea.
Some high sulphur foods include avocado, pumpkin seeds, and tuna.
I personally prefer the seeds, but you should can look it up if you don’t like any of those.
When I restart my gut it usually goes into overdrive… It’s not necessarily something you’re doing wrong, it might just be your gut starting up too vigorously. Gastrocolic reflex is what I chalk it up to. For me it has mellowed out now that I’m doing 22+ hour fasts every day. Moving to 96 hour fasts next week so I’ll probably be visiting my throne Thursday night.
Diarrhea is one of the potential side effects from cipro, the most frequent one actually but still <10%. Same for fluconazole but I don’t know any specific numbers here. Just reading this from German Wikipedia pages.
So you might not have done anything wrong and it might not be related to the fast at all.