Re: To Xena,

Quick run down on my history: I've know something was wrong with me since I received an overdose cortisone shot from an idiot doctor the spring of 2001. About 3 months after I started not feeling right, kinda of out of balance, anxious, fatigued.

When I continued to get worse I'd got to various drs., tons of blood tests, always told nothing was wrong with me and all the time was steadily getting sicker and weaker, but continued to work, how I don't know. Then last Dec. the unbearable all over muscle pain began and the fatigue that I thought couldn't get any worst did big time. Feb. I found my current dr. and within 5 minutes of talking to me he said I probably had candida and Epstein-Barr ( Mono) because it has wiped out your immune system. Ran the tests, had both, when found out how physical my job is he pulled me off. Spent the next 3 months in bed recovering from the Mono.

I have been on Nystatin, Diflucan for about 4 months straight, done all the natural anti-fungals, been on the diet for 11 months now, take probiotics and digestive enzymes. I also do IV therapy with Hydrogen Peroxide and vitamins. My doctors wife got candida in 1995 and he couldn't figure out what was wrong with her and after taking her to different alternative type doctors she was properly diagnosed and now because of his experience with his wife, he completely changed his practice around to a wellness clinic and he treats a lot of candida patients. It took his wife 2 years to get her health back, so if I can get mine back in another year I will feel lucky and blessed after reading some of the horror stories on the forum of how long people have been battling this.

If my job was a desk job and I could sit down I might could suck it up and try it, but absolutely no way could I survice walking 8 hrs a day at this point in my recovery and I'm not about to risk my health or any progress I've made to attempt it.

I kind of got blind sided by this, because I did not have any of the warning symptoms that so many on this forum has had such as vaginal yeast infections, thrush, coated tongue, rashes, Sugar cravings, none of those.

Deb