rlm,

i cured my ovarian cystitis by killing off most of my candida. the dr wanted to do surgery. i said no. boy was i glad i said no. they make it sound so simple. to them it is. they get to line their wallets and you get the raw end of the stick with the pain and the domino effect of the surgery screwing everything else up, not to mention all the money you just spent, and for what???

Almost every symptom (if not all) i've had has stemmed from candidiasis. In the beginning I used to tell drs about what i thought i had and they'd just blink and ask me if i had AIDS. So i was tested and negative for AIDS, so they said i couldn't have candidiasis. You just want to slap somebody silly and knock some knowledge into them. So I jsut gave up and don't tell anyone about it anymore.

The American Medical Association and the FDA and the pharmaceutical companies don't want our health to be in our hands. They want us to be sick so they can make money. They don't want cures for anything. They want ongoing treatments. There are many fights going on in this country and overseas in europe concerning this subject. We won't give up and we won't give in. We want our health choices and health management to remain in our hands. This is what the health advocates on our side of the fence are saying.

Aside from all that, doctors only parrot what they've been taught by the AMA (oversees the universities, among other duties) and the drug salespeople. If they don't follow "THE BOOK" they will get black balled. They fear getting their licenses revoked after many years and much hard work at school and money spent.

yes believe me i agree and did not actually go to the doc to discuss candida. i had to go for a procedure. but i mentioned candida to him just to see what he thought about it and of course as i suspected, he did not believe in it.

It is very hard to make others grasp this illness. I think it is because it sounds like Science fiction. And people are taught to believe in medical doctors , so if they go to a dr. and ask about it and get told it does not exist , many will not question any further and take the dr. word as law. But in our case, we know differently because of our experiences. My family has a few medical issues and I have seen dr. make many critical mistakes. A family member who gets intestinal blockages grequently was once given a drug to stop them from vomiting whihc could have killed him. When you have a blockage you vomit to relieve pressure, if you are mad eto stop vomiting your intestine could burst. Luckily he had enough sense to refuse the med. ONe time I went to a hospital for a colonscopy. I was so dehydrated I was near death from the gallon of junk they made me drink. I kept telling the nurse I was dehydrated and she said , "oh honey everyone feels like that". She would not listen and I was too weak to fight with her. When the shift changed and I got a new nurse, I needed hours of iv's before they could even do test. It was very dangerous. Every single time I have been ill with anything, they can never find what is wrong but readily offer some kind of meds. We all need to ealrn that medical Science is very limited in scope and is great for somethings...only some thngs...like appendicitis, or pneumonia, diabetes etc. The standar illnesses. Anyhting else and you are on your own.
Michelle