Re: Sensitization to canditoxins causing vulvodynia.

I researched this disease for 14 years, and that is my opinion. I think once it becomes chronic - i.e. you have it every day continuously for more than a year, it will be extremely difficult to cure.

But I really hope I am wrong & that you will take an echinocandin drug cocktail and get cured, and report back here. You deserve to succeed. We all do.

I would never recommend a single antifungal drug be taken alone. Always a 3 or more drug cocktail, each drug with a different mechanism of action. I think that will give you the best odds of avoiding resistance.

Keep in mind that "By age 18, most Americans have had up to 20 doses of Antibiotics ."

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Yet other than being fat, they are mostly OK, right?

So my opinion is that most people (90 - 95% of population) are immune or very resistant to candidiasis, and unlikely that they ever get a chronic case of it. Therefore they will never post on this forum.

But I suspect perhaps 5 - 10% are genetically susceptible, and once they get a certain cumulative lifetime does of antibiotics, will develop a chronic infection.
Even in that 5 - 10% there will be some who have much more severe case than others.