Re: Just a Thought
Well, like everyone, I can mostly only look to my own experiences. I feel horrible for you feeling awful all the time! Especially after having felt so much better, at least according to posts I have read. I was there and it sucks big time, so I know exactly what you are going through. My worst was about 6 months after starting to treat candida. It was Christmas, and I remember having to take cabs to do my shopping because there was no way I could hack the bus, and literally just crawled to the stores on Christmas eve 'cause I had left it all to the last minute hoping I would feel better "tomorrow". The smells of the cosmetic counters had me reeling on my feet and gasping for breath, and the fluorescent lights had my head pounding, and forget about having an easy time deciding what to get for people - the brain fog was ridiculous. I really at one time also thought candida cannot grow back that fast. Then, when it was down to just my thrush patch w/o any other candida symptoms, I found that I could be clear-tongued one day, and then if I ate too much of something I should not have eaten, the thrush patch would return the next day, and then a day or so day after that it would start to recede again, accompanied by typical die off symptoms, including seeing the young candida in my stools (via enema), and then things would be fine again. So, then I began to assess whether candida could in fact re-grow that fast. I guess what solidified it for me is when I have felt better and had not any candida symptoms, if I did an enema, I would not see any candida, I only see it now in my stools (via enema) after a mishap.
So, this toxicity is akin to heroin withdrawal?? Man, now I kind of feel like Superwoman for having gone through all that, lol! C'mon you heroin junkies - you wimps, you can do it!! (Purely a joke, no cards and letters, please! :) )
I "think" the age of the candida has more to do with shape/form than size, but I could be wrong. The puffy stuff (like in your photos) is young. Old would be the thready stringy stuff (which for me, is usually not attached to the puffy stuff - I don't see the thready stuff anymore). But, I am no expert on this aspect of it - just what I have read - mostly from Jhan.