HELLO. DR. BIAMONTE, thank you for asking our questions, and I apologize for others being so insensitive to your busy schedule. I HAVE had CANDIDA WELL OVER TWENTY YEARS. OR SO I ASSUME. I HAVE HAD AN ANAL RASH and oral thrush FOR THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME. IT ONLY WENT AWAY FOR A FEW DAYS AFTER TAKING A SUPPLEMENT THAT BONDED OREGANO OIL WITH A PROTEIN, BUT at the time I COULD NOT AFFORD TO KEEP USING THE SUPPLEMENT.
OVER TWENTY YEARS AGO A DERMATOLOGIST TOOK A SKIN SCRAPING AND TOLD ME IT WAS HYPHAE AND SPORES, MOST LIKELY CAUSED BY CANDIDA.
OVER ten YEARS AGO I GOT EXTREMELY SICK AFTER EATING AT A CHINESE RESTAURANT, WITH SEVERE VOMITING ALONG WITH A PANIC ATTACK. ACCORDING TO WHAT FOODS I ATE, THE VOMITING CONTINUED FOR ABOUT SIX MONTHS. I DID NOT HAVE INSURANCE SO I WENT THRU THE LOCAL HOSPITAL DISTRICT IN HOUSTON TX. IT TOOK SEVERAL MONTHS FOR THEM TO EVEN SCHEDULE AN ULTRASOUND, SO I JUST PAID FOR IT OUT OF MY OWN POCKET. After the ultrasound and blood tests revealed nothing wrong., the doctor told me that there was nothing wrong with me. For my rash, he gave me the same antifungal cream that I had used for years that only partially stabilized the rash, but did not get rid of it. The vomiting continued for a while, even though the doctor told me there was nothing wrong with me. So basically, all the city did was pay for a few blood tests and tell me there was nothing wrong with me (just a side note here , we really do need nation wide government sponsored insurance, but I will save that argument for a different forum). I prayed hard and was lead to something called MAP (medical assistance program) which is a form of spiritual healing. MY SPIRITUALITY, along with SEVERAL HEALERS STABILIZED MY CONDITION FOR YEARS. BUT THE RASH AND A COATED TONGUE (THRUSH) NEVER WENT AWAY. I STOPPED EATING CHICKEN AND THIS STOPPED MOST OF THE VOMITING.
Sorry for the all caps, I normally type in caps for easier reading. Too late to rewrite so let me continue.
Depression, anxiety were the main symptoms , along with nausea after most meals, sometimes vomiting. Emotions were a key player in this as I would vomit several hours after eating fatty foods and after a horrible argument with someone.
Recently I got real sick with what looked like gastritis and acid reflux and food allergies, this was accompanied by hot flashes with chills and high anxiety, more like panic attacks. I would eat, and then feel like there was a warmth or some kind of energy in my stomach that was making me feel like I need to vomit (sometimes I would vomit, especially if I had had a bad argument) and then this energy would spread to my whole body and I would have extreme anxiety along with it. . . I could not eat anything but tofu for a while, and then one day even that made me sick, and I got down to 112 pounds (I am small frame and six foot tall). I was at the end of my rope when I went to something called a oneness blessing (basically a transference of healing energy by laying on of hands to your head) and my health started to return. My nausea was reduced majorly and I could start eating again after several oneness blessings (also called deeksha), but also from doing major major healing of abuse issues with EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TECHNIQUE. Almost overnight I could eat again after doing eft and the oneness blessings. My depression is greatly lifted now, but I still am dealing with anxiety but nothing like it was. My major issue is that I am a night person and don’t seem to be able to sleep until about six am. Once asleep I sleep fine, I just don’t’ seem to be able to sleep at night. . I am taking gaba supplements but they can make me a little groggy the next day.
I recently bought some probiotics, digestive enzmes, DGL. A GREEN SOURCE product that included vitamins and minerals, a liquid b complex, papaya pills. And coenzyme q 10 with acetyl l cartine. This gave me back a lot of my energy and nausea and anxiety were reduced a lot. I feel a lot better now. My confidence levels are very high now, I have an inner knowing that I can and will heal. I have not worked in many years, and my finances are limited (only for now), but I am studying computers and will get a job in that field.
I have gained weight and am now up to around 140 pounds (six foot tall). Most of my adult life I have been 145 pounds (small frame).
MY diet is still not that great, but I am avoiding most sweets. The eft helps greatly on a daily basis.
I did see an MD lately and had an ultrasound and a lot of blood tests but all were negative. Most of the time my stools are ok, with some constipation but nothing major, nausea is my main digestive complaint.
So presently I still have a hard time eating certain foods, I avoid foods that would be rough on the stomach, like brown rice or broccoli. I also find it hard to eat a large meal without nausea. ( I normally eat very small meals). In my recent bout with gastritis or whatever it was, I finally isolated fatty foods as the culprit. Any fatty food would cause nausea and possibly vomiting, but now I seem to be able to eat several fatty foods.
The rash is stabilized with lamisil cream but oral thrush is still active I forgot to mention that the rash is always worse at night, with very little itching during the daytime. Also, for over ten or fifteen years I used hydrocortisone cream on my rash, and I think that I may have really hurt my immune system by doing so, I longer use that cream.
So now I am on a campaign not just to eradicate candida, but to be whole and healthy and energetic. I presently do about six hours or more research at night and mainly on cure zone for answers and solutions. . I have been interested in alternative healing my whole life, and take as many seminars and lectures as I can afford to go to, but now I have new confidence levels (mainly to healing emotional issues with eft), and I am certain I will overcome my health issues. I am presently unemployed but that will change.
There is my history , I thought that knowing it would perhaps help you in answering my questions. So here are my questions.
I noticed that you mentioned using antifungals before you use probiotics. Are you referring to prescr*iption antifungals or natural ones. Either way, which ones do you prefer and at what doses?
Also, what about rectal enemas? And rectal implants. Could I use an antifungal in a rectal implant, and then later a rectal implant with a good probiotic.
And that brings up another subject,. Quite frankly, what are the best probiotics? And how and when do you take them. Some say take just before meals. One post says to drink a glass of water to reduce stomach acid, then take the probiotic with skim milk just before a meal. And others say to make your own kefir for probiotics.
Concerning digestive enzymes, which ones do you like best?
And when it comes to going to sleep early, is gaba a good choice, there are different forms of gaba and I wonder what you use for a natural sleep supplement.
I read in a post here on cure zone that the comprehensive stool analysis by Smokey Mountain labs does more than just tell you what pathogens and parasites are in the stool. I read that once they determine your pathogens, then they test different treatments in the lab for the different pathogens, in order to see which treatments work best for you. Is that true? If so , that would be amazing. IN general, is that really the best place to start, with a good stool testing? Of course I realize that I should get an endoscopy and possible a colonoscopy, but I hate invasive tests. I wonder if candida is my main problem, and even though all blood tests were negative, I still think that my thyroid is out of whack ( for a lesser way of saying it).
I am reading as much as time will allow, all the forums related to my condition here on cure zone, I am looking at zappers, possibly MMS (MAGIC MINERAL SOLUTION-but I DON’T’ think my sensitive stomach could handle it, so I might start out with paradolphilus instead), AND natural antifungals, liver flushes, detoxing, probiotics etc. anything and everything, and I am slowly implementing them one step at a time. My financial resources extremely limit me to what I can do at the present time, but that will also increase. I also am sensitive to energy fields and am looking into buying a clarus pendant or other Emf protection device. I have done masses amounts of studying but now am ready to take direct action.
I understand that you may not be able to answer all of these questions, especially without seeing the results of my blood work or other lab work, and of course direct medical advice is not appropriate on this forum.
I also understand that this is an extremely long post, an aggressive posting,but I am aggressive now in my intention to heal, and the very process of being proactive and writing this , in and of itself, is very healing to me. Any suggestions and thoughts would be appreciated, not just from the doctor but also from any other members of cure zone, as long as they are supportive and not critical.