Re: Whats the big deal about diflucan?

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It's REALLY HARD on your liver.
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I'd have to disagree that it's really hard on your liver. While it's true that it can cause liver dysfunction, it's quite a rare side effect. I took it and felt completely fine. Serious hepatic reactions during treatment with Diflucan most often occur in patients with serious underlying medical conditions such as AIDS or Malignant Cancer and often while taking multiple concomitant medications. For other patients who are otherwise healthy, they might rarely experience milder liver impairments but their liver functions almost always return to normal once treatment has been stopped.

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It might work well if you're in the early stages of candida, but if you're got a long-standing condition that has already taxed your liver, Diflucan is poison and will set back progress more than anything.
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I suffered with Candida from the time I was 8 (from my own estimates) until the time I was almost 26. Fluconazole worked for me. Not sure how much longer term you can get than that.

Fluconazole is still considered a first-line agent in nonneutropenic patients with candidemia or suspected invasive candidiasis, however there are of course newer antifungal medications around that are proving to help those whom fluconazole has failed. Problem is the newer antifungals are really expensive as there are no generics available for them yet.

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What I would like to see more of are prescriptions for anti-fungals that work in the gut and don't have any liver harming properties. I'm talking about Nystatin and oral Amphotericin B.
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I would just rather see doctors acknowledge that Candida infections are more prevalent than what is currently believed, then they can start worrying with what to prescribe for it. Tweet