Re: At my wits end :(

 I have tried everything from garlic to threelac to beat candida, but my symptoms have never gotten worse or better.

It sounds like you are trying to kill Candida. This does not work. It is a natural part of the body and killing the Candida just creates food for the surviving Candida leading to rebound growth. The trick is to get the immune system back in to charge if Candida is present. And keeping the parts of the body acidic that need to be acidic, such as the stomach, vagina, and skin. Acid keeps Candida in its less harmful yeast form. Alkalinity converts it in to a highly pathogenic and invasive fungal form.

I know I have candida, because I took an candida antibody test.

Antibody tests are some of the least accurate tests available. They cannot confirm the presence of anything. Look up serological cross reactivity, which is the biggest problem with these tests. The other common reason for false positives is exposure without chronic infection.

I also convinced my GP to give me a course of fluconazole, I could only get him to give me 10 days of 50mg.

Fluconozole will not do much other than to destroy your liver. Again, killing Candida DOES NOT work.

This made no difference.

Because I know I have a candida problem, but NOTHING works - what am I supposed to do??

What makes things worse is I have no visible symptoms in order to check if progress is being made.

The symptoms I do have, are:

- Aches & pains
- Eye floaters - Massively bad now. I will be seriously visually impaired by next year
- Memory & speech problems, not severe
- Bloating & constipation
- Heart palpitations after eating
- Kidney pain in the morning
- Big bags under eyes

Your symptoms can be attributed to many things other than Candida. This is why you have to be careful about self diagnosis. For instance several of your symptoms indicate that you are likely deficient in stomach acid, and you likely have adrenal/thyroid dysfunction.

As you can see, the candida has affected my major organs - But I am a 'healthy' 24 year old, with no yeast rashes or anything.

Do I give up & go back to my old ways of eating bags of yoghurt covered dried bananas & crystallised ginger?

or do I stick to oatcakes and hummus???

:(

I would start by increasing your stomach acid, which should help regardless if your bloating is from lack of stomach acid and/or yeast in the stomach. You should also do your basal body temperature to rule out hypothyroidism since many of your symptoms fit this as well. While you are at it see if any of your unlisted symptoms fit adrenal dysfunction. For example allergies, low energy, hormone problems, hypoglycemia, chronic inflammation/pain, easily stressed, low blood pressure, feeling like your are going to pass out when standing suddenly....