yes, the dr. COULD be wrong. If you felt different all over with diflucan then that should tell you something. Obviously your issue is systemic. Candida can start in one area and then travel all over the body. Doctors have a way of making us think we are imagiging these symptoms. As far as I am concerned , when doctors can figure out what we have and help us get well, then I will listen to them. At this point I am discouraged by all I have heard and seen and experienced.

Candida originated in the bowel. There is no quesiton about that. If it keeps overgrowing anywhere else in the body, it is because your bowel is full of it. Clean the bowel and eventaully you will rid yourself of it. Antifungal is important, but not the only answer, you must cleanse out the dead stuff and other stuff that is encrusted in your bowel that feeds it.

Candida in the esophoagus, mouth, vagina, etc.. is just another symptom of having it in your digestive system IMHO. What you need to do now is get on some probiotics and natural antifungals, and digestive enzymes. The diet helps, but isn't enough on its own IMHO. Also please see the post I just added about leaky gut.

I also have fungus in my esophagus - my gut is fine now; however, the sinus and eustachian tubes are still infected. I believe I feel better on Diflucan (getting ready to start month 2) because the fungus throws off so many toxins just being there excessively and they affect everything. The diet hasn't done squat for me, and I really don't have reactions or changes depending upon what I eat or do not eat. I tried so many things before getting the prescription drugs and could not make the headway needed to eradicate it (enough to be well). Within a week of the Diflucan, I was 80% better than before. I have been quite ill with this for nearly 7 years (mostly misdiagnosed with other things). I would not recommend anyone play around with this - it is quite dangerous. Had I known sooner how much faster the prescription would work, I'd have jumped on it long ago. As it was, a chiropractor had me on essential oils (very powerful ones I might add and I still use them) but did not emphasize the seriousness of this issue. I had to research and figure it out myself. I have a lot of years of many herbs, supplements, coconut oil, diets, nasal rinses, etc. and nothing impacted this like 28 days of Diflucan did. I also had tremendous "die off" with the OTC stuff but not the Diflucan - hmmmm????? Makes me think that all the "natural" stuff I took merely got the beasties agitated and fighting back brutally.
Anyway,I was told the fungus had become invasive and implanted itself in my throat - very difficult to eradicate - basically need a systemic drug to be in the bloodstream in order to kill it off from that direction. My gut is now clean and no digestive issues at all.