It seems as if you're having a real problem tolerating the die off. And I can relate to not being able to tolerate bad die off as a mother of a 2 and 3 year old. (My 2 year old just woke up from her nap and is calling me now :)) You just cannot cope with being out of it when they need so much constant care.

I can suggest 2 products that claim to not cause die off. Links below. One is for colon cleansing. It is called Colosan. I hear of it having good benefits on the CureZone Forums . And the other is Candex for the candida. Be sure to click on the Acrobat reader or Printer friendly link to read the brochure online. Candex also has a money back guarantee. You can buy Colosan at the site on the link or elsewhere. Candex is at Vitamin Shoppe and www.iherb.com or elsewhere. I cannot vouch for these products as I have not been able to try them as of yet, but plan on it. I'm sure others may have suggestions.

http://www.pureessencelabs.com/candex.html
http://www.rawhealth.net/colosan.htm

Hi Zowie,
something that works really well against sugar/carb cravings is coconut oil. Cook with it or eat it neat. Long story short it stabalises blood Sugar (as well as being one of the healthiest foods on the planet).

I used to get cravings every evening especially in winter. Not any more. I just cook with coconut oil.

It seems to me the killing the candida bit isn't doing you much good at the moment. Perhaps you should approach the issue the other way and strengthen your body - e.g. bowel cleanse, liver-cleanse etc.

As Shelleycat says candida is only a symptom of an underlying condition (e.g. organ weakness). Adressing the symptom only can be exhausting for the body and put us into a never-ending circle where nothing works and the candida only gets stronger.

Hi Zowie! so glad you found us. :)

Marmite sandwiches? Are you in England or? I never did have any while I was over there but I hear it's an acquired taste anyway. ;)

Have you ever been checked for an ear infection/wax impaction? Candida really weakens the liver, and that can cause all kinds of stuffyness, not jsut the sinuses but the ears too, as there is a canal from the mouth to the ears. It's possible that the treatments you tried were dislodging impacted wax just enough to move it about but not get it out of there.

So in addition to the regular candida cure that I always recommend, you really really need to clean out your ear passages as much as possible. There are several ways to do this:

1. prescription medication ear drops, some over the counter are okay, check with your drugstore.

2. ear candling - some alternative healers can do this for you, it's very cheap, non-invasive, gentle.

3. special kind of colonic - some colonic techs train on how to use this very tiny funnel that will take wax out of the ears. It's really amazing what they can get out. Ask around for colonic therapists who have this special part and know how to use it.

Help for Sugar cravings: GTF Chromium helps to maintain normal blood glucose levels; also, many times a craving for Sugar actually means a need for protein. Keep a salad of cooked lentils in the fridge and eat those instead. Very satisfying.

Brain fog: that's a congested liver and possibly leaky gut syndrome.

Here is how I cured my candida, brought on by taking too many Antibiotics in the course of a year. The things I did include Liver Cleansing and bowel cleansing:

1. An anti-candida diet for three months per the Yeast Connection Cookbook recommendations, slightly modified by rec's in "Juicing for Life". Basically, I ate a huge variety of veggies, raw, steamed, in soups, juiced. I only ate one serving of fruit a day, green apple, blueberries, pears or cherries only. Ate 1/2 to 1 cup of alternative grains like quinoa and used brown rice flour for tortillas and pasta. NO wheat or dairy or refined sugar. Used brown rice syrup as a sweetener for my hot cereals. Olive-Oil and Flax Seed Oil and Ghee (clarified butter) were my only added fats.

2. Pancreatic enzymes with meals, especially when eating protein, for increased bile flow.

3. A series of colonics every quarter, followed by home enemas via a bucket enema setup. Plain water and Sea Salt mostly, sometimes a couple tablespoons of Bentonite clay or chlorophyll added.

4. Hot baths with baking soda and Epsom Salts and ginger 20 minutes after taking 40mg Niacin - the flush kind. Also did dry brushing before taking niacin.

5. super green foods and probiotics and lecithin. I prefer Garden of Life's products, Primal Defense, Perfect Food, etc.

6. herbal complexes to support the liver - mostly Planetary Formula's Bupluerum Liver Cleanse, and beets

7. massage and chiropractic, purchased a shiatsu massager, for circulation. Also walks and stretching, yoga.

8. Solaray Spectro multi vit-min supplements, and a liquid trace mineral additive.

9. Co enzyme Q10, 30mg or 60mg a day

10. Psyllium and Bentonite shakes, 1-3x a day depending on what all I was doing at the time.

11. Ate a lot of Kichadi, an Indian stew that Ayurvedic doctors recommend for ease of digestion and circulation.

12. warm water with lemon juice and sometimes apple cider vinegar, before bed.

13. Went to be before 10:30 every night - every hour before Midnight is twice as healing as any hour after Midnight.

I now recommend MSM in small dosages (1000 mg or less) because it helps the liver, but small dosage because it has an acidic effect on PH balance, and of course a series of liver flushes, and perhaps HCL betain. A good healthy bile flow is essential for keeping Candida in balance.

Best references that I've found so far:

www.liverdoctor.com

www.sensiblehealth.com

"Juicing for Life" by Cherie Calbom & Maureen Keane - the book that saved my life by teaching me about candidiasis.

"Tissue Cleansing thru Bowel Management" by Dr. Bernard Jensen - the book that taught me how to do proper bowel management and lymph cleansing.

"The Yeast Connection Cookbook" by W. Crook - the book that taught me how to eat a candida diet and also to prepare meals out of veggies I wasn't used to eating.

Also recommend "Perfect Health" by Deepak Chopra for how to live in balance with your particular body type, based on Ayurvedic Medicine.

I can really help you, most of what you find in this Candida Forum is BS as people really doesn't know why they have candida in their bodies. Candida is not a big issue, candida can clear totally from your body in 3 months but that is not the problem. I can really help you I had same symptoms you had and even worse and I finally found the light and the end of the tunnel. It is not an easy path but it is the only one.

Write me to my email if you are interested in receiving help, this is my email.

rodrilukas@yahoo.com

Regards,

Rod

Hi Zowie,

Just wondering how you're making out with your "sinking feel" now. I have similar problems and have gone from jogging 5km twice a week to barely being able to slowly walk more than 1 block. My N.D. is suspicious that I have thyroid probs despite tests back from my M.D. showing it within normal ranges(1.0). I also have Candida and sinus problems.

Has anything changed for you and, if so, what did you start doing differently?

Thanks,

Luvchops