Re: powerful reaction to prescript-assist probiotic

Like I said, my symptom profile is pretty unique. When my candida symptoms first appeared and progressed over the course of two years, it manifested as gradual mental deterioration, fatigue, and sedation. The sedation became so bad at the end that I was sleeping about 20 hours a day and literally could not wake up. I was basically locked in a dream-like state.

What initially got me out of that state was grapefruit seed extract. I became awake and alert, with better energy, but my mind was still heavily fogged. I later discovered that this was a die-off reaction which ended up being a huge improvement symptom-wise in my case. At that point I discovered that many other antifungals caused this die-off reaction, but if I took too many it would go from pleasant to horrible - the alterness would grow into horrible anxiety and insomnia. Very similar to the affect of caffeine.

Ok, so I can't take the antifungal route to being cured, because it just takes me into neverending intolerable die-off insomnia etc. The other route that I discovered was initially with the blue cheese and 'ultimate 10' probiotic. These reversed my die-off symptoms, making me feel calmer, sleep better, etc. This seemed great but after a few months on these, I was back to the initial severest candida state of being extremely sedated.

My hope was that I could tolerate this as a temporary inconvenience and that these would continue to reverse my symptoms all the way back to normal, but the pace was unbearably slow. I was stuck feeling severely sedated for days on end and couldn't handle it.

So what I just discovered with the "Prescript Assist" is that it also causes this reversal of die-off, but it actually feels much more powerful than either the blue cheese or the 'ultimate 10' probiotic. Obviously I don't want to end up feeling sedated all the time again, but I can tolerate it IF I'm able to move past that phase quickly enough. And it seems like I actually might be able to do so with the PA, hence my reply post to the original one.

I suppose it would be hard for someone else to understand, but it's best to imagine it in terms of my blood level of candida toxins. When the level began to climb over the course of the first two years, I experienced the initial symptoms I described. When I took the Grapefruit-Seed-Extract and experienced die-off, the level of toxins actually rose (from all the candida cells being ripped open, basically), but for some bizarre reason, this made me feel better. Now I've found that the PA can lower the blood level, potentially back to zero, but I have to be careful because that means re-experiencing my initial symptom progression in reverse, for an unknown period of time. Which is way if I can go through that quickly, it will be acceptable for me to do so.

Sorry for the long reply. My candida experience is pretty strange and it's complicated to explain adequately.

tpno2005