Re: HOLY "s" I have aspergillus fumigatatus/aspergillus niger!!

sky12, i got those results then had another appt with a respected Ent at USC she told me she doesn't under stand this and if this is so that I have that then I would be dead (thanks doctor like I wasn't already more scared than ever) she said sporanx (sp?) is very bad and my liver blah blah all she did was scare the shit out of me. But she will be able to operate on the bone tumor they found in my frontal sinus later on if it keeps growing fast. right now I am not strong enough. and she does not think it is causing my problems. she also thinks the cultures got contaminated at the lab! so I think I have answers one min then the next the next doctor tells me this!! my mind is racing, this is too much for me.

My infectious disease doctor is running a stool test specifically for fungus/yeast to find out what strain is in it. to see if the sporanox will kill that too. If you think it might be you need to get to a good infectious disease doctor and ask for a spitum test (i hawked and spit and made myself cry and blew my nose in itcause I could not get much flem otherwise)and get a stool test specific for yeast candida that will tell you which strain. I had a stool test at kaiser 3 years ago that said "many yeast" but did not tell me which kind and my natural doctors test came back no yeast, so this infectious disease doctor is where I actually got some results. I turn in the sample tomorrow then I don't know how long I have to wait...

YES I have bad bad bad candida, I think one of the worst on here besides a few others.I had to quit my job i loved and barely can get out of bed. I had the candida long before this new aspergillus thing... .  so my symptoms started 3 years ago after tons of antibiotics for tonsil infections. diarrhea so bad I would almost cry, then constant vomiting,acid reflux to the point where I wouldn't eat anymore and still had it bad. then ear fluctuations, could not pop them, very dizzy, hair loss, nail fungus, memory loss, brain fog, neck shoulder pain sooo bad, many more then this last oct came down with a UTI that would not respond to two rounds of antibiotics, then got a bad cold that made me cough for months till my heart would hurt, went to doctor they gave me inhalers and steriod pills they triggered asthma and made it all worse nails turning blue, and vertigo unlike anything I have had before lungs felt tingly and briloy and weird and felt like they would fill with liquid. got off those inhalers stayed warm and in bed and took core level lung vitamins (30 a day) and my lungs got better for about a month then I came down with this sinus infection that does not show on ct scans and I don't have colored mucus. but have extreme pain and pressure and fever, swollen glands and lypth nods, post nasal drip, and extreme vertigo and bad ear pain put on 20 days of antibiotics cause 3 doctors (including my natural doctor) said it had to be bacterial. The 2 ent's  i saw at USC think I don't have a sinus infection AT ALL cause it doesn't show on the scan. she says my pasage ways are slightly swollen. at this point I'm going nuts NUTS. I cried harder than I ever have when I got home, she scared me so much saying I would die if I had that.  SO do I believe the cultures or this ent from USC????? she wants me to do another culture, she said in one breath I would be dead if I had that then a few mins later said "the mayo clinic says 97% of healthy people grew that in there cultures" but she must have misread because I too have read that and it said 97% of SINUS infections are fungal, not healthy people without sinus problems.  I'm going to start the sporanox tomorrow. pray to god this works if not I'm out of options... 

tell me what your symptoms are. the lung/ sinus/vertigo issues are the worst ever, anyone who doesn't have these symptoms is soooo lucky, the other candida symptoms just seem so trival when faced with this!