Does my story sound anything like yours?
Hello, I have been dealing with advanced candida for over a year now. Meaning, it got to the stage where I was aware it was candida and it was causing problems like hormonal disruption and heart palpitations. I was pregnant last August and was having alot of chest tightness and heart palpitations and anxiety as well as a lot of vaginal yeast infections. I went to a cardiologist and had my blood work checked and wore the halter monitor 24 hours and had a heart ultrasound and ekg. Everything was normal. A relief! But no answers from the doctor about why I was having these problems. I did some research and read that candida can disrupt the hormones that regulate your hearts rhythm and cause arrythmias and palpitations. So I cut out gluten and refined
Sugar and was better. No more heart palpitations or anxiety and I also started taking Candex. The pregnancy ended in a csection in January with a 8lb 9oz baby boy. I stuck to my diet of no gluten and
Sugar and taking the candex because I am nursing. July came around and I started Cheating on the diet. Eating lots of sugary fruits and the occasional wheat and processed sugar. So basically completely not following the diet. As suspected, the candida came back with the heart palpitations and itchy vag. I went on strict diet and felt awful. Heart palpitations persisted. I was not taking any antifungals, not even candex. Decided my candida would not naturally die off so I started olive leaf extract and the palpitations quit and my anxiety level diminished. Since then I have been rotating antifungals every 5 days and everytime I start a new one I get bad die off. This has been going over a month now of die off. Can this really be? Even sometimes while using antifungals I can feel anxious alot and like I might get a palpitation... sometimes I will sometimes I wont. Is this die off? Also, my baby has has thrush 4 times in his short 8 months and I'm still nursing, trying to absorb as much of the toxic die off with
Bentonite clay as I can. Should I stop nursing? I really wanted to hang in there until he is a year old. The problem is that sometimes I can still get a heart palpitation with "die off" but then I get confused and don't know whether I am coming or going. My next step is a
Bowel Cleanse as i haven't been doing those. Has anybody else been through anything similar? Suggestions?