Re: Doctors....Experts.....?????

oh believe me i know exactly what you are saying and i understand your frustration. i think we all do on these boards because most of us have been through similar experiences. i spent close to a thousand dollars on tests and doctors visits in a 3 month period. i am sure there are tons of people on here who have spent even more than i did. my final test was a brain MRI because i was so screwed up and the only thing i could think of was that something neurological, maybe even a brain tumor, was what could be affecting all of my nerves and muscles. i kept telling the doctors i thought that this had to be related to Antibiotics because i was on them for a year and a half and didn't get sick until two weeks after stopping them. they all kept telling me just take the xanax and sleeping pills...you just need to get some sleep. i hadn't slept in over three months and i was still waking up in the middle of the night on top of taking the pills. i was in chronic pain all of the time, burning and stabbing pains all over my body, burning eyes, my vision would blur or jump sometimes, my equilibrium was off - my entire body was off balance. i felt like i was walking around lopsided for a whole month. i had started experiencing migraines which i never had in my life before this. my joints crack from head to toe constantly. i was having panic attacks, depression, crying spells...the list goes on and on. i was a total train wreck and not one doctor would help me or even consider the Antibiotics being the cause of it all. i finally found out about candida through lyme disease boards because most of them get it from taking long term Antibiotics . i thought i had lyme because it seemed like the only plausible explanation of all of the crazy symptoms, but it turns out the symptoms of candida are almost exactly the same as lyme. when i read about candida and being that i just stopped taking long term antibiotics, i finally realized it had to be what was wrong. so i have been treating myself ever since. one holistic MD did try to help me and put me on diflucan for three weeks...within 10 days i broke out in a rash from head to toe and had to go on steroids (NOT GOOD FOR CANDIDA!). after that i said NO MORE PRESCRIPTIONS!! now i am doing this thing all on my own (with the help of all of you of course) and doing so much better.

i am sure you will find most people on here feel the same way about the medical world these days. all they want to do is give you and anti-depressant to mask the symptoms and be on your merry way.

i had read about the yeast staying in the intestines on the internet and that is why i have been posting a lot about it recently because i am trying a new approach to this whole thing starting in the new year. i just wanted to get opinions from others for exactly the reason you said...you can't believe everything you read or hear or are told by doctors or even non-doctors. i wanted to ask what people's experiences were with the candida themselves because we would know first hand whether or not it can spread to other parts of the body. although i am not quite sure how you know you have it in all of those organs? how can you tell for sure if you can't visibly see it until it comes out in stools?

i am just trying to research the alkaline/acid approach. i have read yeast and fungus also cannot survive in an alkaline environment. so i wondered if you just kept your entire body (saliva, urine, blood) in a constant state of alkalinity, couldn't it eventually kill all of the yeast and fungus and therefore you would not even need all of the anti-fungals, etc? i don't know if this is really true or if it would really work. all i know is all of the pills and rotating and trying different things gets me too overwhelmed and half of the time i don't know what's helping and what's not. when i have a good day or a bad day i usually can't even figure out what caused it anymore. i am trying to simplify it down to one method and one area of my body at a time - working in stages to kill this thing. i thought if i started with the intestines and healing the leaky gut and just that aspect of it alone, that everything else would naturally be less stressed because that is the source of all of the toxins and fungus spreading to begin with.

i also did read some responses from people on here who did say they feel best when they are in an alkaline state. so there has to be some truth to it. i don't know but it just hit me last night that this is what i think i need to do in order to get better. when i saw a big strand of brown mucous floating in the toilet after a bowel movement the other day i realized just how destroyed my intestines really are and it kind of scared me. i am never going to get better until that gut heals so i am going to put all of my energy into fixing it and see how i do. then when i am strong enough i will start flushing the liver and doing all of the other things to clean out my organs. i may be completely wrong but i just don't feel like what i am doing right now is ever going to heal me completely. i need to get rid of the food allergies which are all being caused by the leaky gut itself. they actually cause inflammation in the intestines as well which further damages them and creates more peforations and allows more yeast to grow and mutate. same thing goes for the big chunks of undigested food going through me...causing more and more inflammation and therefore more damage to the intestines. i am trying to break this vicious cycle because i feel like i am trapped on a merry go round!

OK - i am done rambling for now!