Re: Sort O/T but not really...CANDIDA

Packing foods to family events is ALL too familiar to me and VERY depressing just thiking about it. I did that for two years straight! What a nightmare that was. I actually just had a family event this weekend and for the first time in two years I didn't have to worry about my dietary restrictions. It was sooooo nice not to have to stress out about that.

Two months ago I absolutely could not add foods back into the diet even if I tried. I would get so sick as I mentioned in the post above from just one bite of any offending food which was basically EVERYTHING.

As for candida...I have never had a vaginal yeast infection so I never really knew if I had/have candida. I started getting REALLY sick immediately after stopping a REALLY LONG (1.5 yrs) course of Antibiotics and also one short course of Cipro (fluorinated drug). I went thru three months of hell, scared out of my mind searching for answers, millions of medical tests..etc etc etc. I FINALLY found out about candida on the net which lead me to Curezone. The diet started healing me immediately but I never got 100 percent better. Then I started getting REALLY caught up in the different opinions on you shouldn't eat this and you shouldn't eat that, and by the end of one year I was eating practically an all protein diet with the exception of three or four veggies that I was able to tolerate.

I was also seeing a naturopath for a year straight only to find myself worse when all was said and done. I started becoming allergic to supplements too so I didn't even see the point in going to this doc anymore. My last visit with him was in March of this year. I forgot to mention I stopped getting my period too and my last period was in June of 06. I am now experiencing all sorts of clear vaginal discharge, swollen breasts and all the feelings of ovulation that I have not felt in AGES. I expect a period anytime now. This I believe is 100 percent the iodine. I did not start feeling my hormones working again until I started the lugols.

Anyhow, back to candida...I have done absolutely nothing in the way of specifically treating candida for probably 6 or 7 month's now and I am still getting SO much better! I have made more progress with my health in the past two to three months than I did in a year and a half of treating myself and seeing a doc. Do I think I had/have candida? Probably yes based on the fact that I took Antibiotics for so long. But I think there is a lot more to it than just an overgrowth of yeast. I think my bowels are/were just seriously clogged up with all sorts of bacteria/parasites/etc. and popping all the antifungals in the world was not going to cure me. At the end of 2005 and half of 2006 I tried numerous things. P & B shakes for 6 months with caprol in it (liquid caprylic acid which kills yeast), tried oil of oregano, and numerous other common candida treatments. I was a walking medicine cabinet with all of the supplements and crap I tried. But as I said, I never fully recovered. So finally I gave up on the whole candida thing and just stuck to a diet that I was able to at least function on enough to go to work on. And every few months I of course went on binges (I am only human) but I would SERIOUSLY pay for it for weeks and weeks. I was losing all hope of ever recovering until I started researching again. I wound up back here at CZ after about a year of no posting and somehow came across oil pulling which in turn lead me to iodine. And then on these boards I found Unyquity (you will see her posts) and she allowed me to call her on the phone one day and that was the day my whole life changed for the better. She told me to juice fast, take cayenned, get myself on a superfood, and GET MYSELF ON Iodine pronto! But juice fasting was on the top of the list of things to do. I did my first fast and stayed on it for 13 days straight. After the fast I was able to start introducing fruits back into my diet in minimal amounts. They were still causing reactions but not near as severe. I ate solid food for a month and went on a second juice fast for about a week, and was able to tolerate even more foods. Then I did a third fast for a little less than a week and again things just kept getting better and better. i was finally able to add whole grains back in a few weeks ago too with minimal reaction. I have also been bowel cleansing (schulze's formula) on and off, taking cayenne tincture for digestion, oil pulling, started Iodine about 5 weeks ago (with some breaks - I am on an Iodine break right now) and a few other basic therapies and cleansing. Oh yes and I did two HC Liver Flushes but I am not sure if I will do anymore of those depending on how things progress with my health. I also have humaworm in my cabinet but haven't started it yet due to so many different therapies I have been doing. I didn't want to add another thing into the mix because the iodine has been really powerful for me. I am considering starting humaworm this week but I also want to start the iodine back up and don't know how well the two will go together at least for me because of the detox reactions. iodine has been really helpful for me in many ways already but it has also caused some major burning in my stomach and intestines when i take it along with a few other scary symptoms so i have to slow down a bit and take things one day at a time, one therapy at a time.

if you want my advice, don't focus so much on specifically treating candida. if you do all the proper things for your body to heal, candida WILL resolve itself all on it's own...and you don't need to waste your money on probiotics. that is just my opinion and the truth i have come to learn in my own healing experience. you can do as you choose because we are all different but i can 100 percent tell you that what i have done has given me my life back and i was seriously beginning to lose all hope. your situation sounds very similar to mine and so much of what you say has happened to me as well. i am feeling so much better...better than i have felt in YEARS and that is all because i took one woman's advice and started juice fasting and seriously cleansing my organs and of course the iodine has been nothing short of a miracle. and everyone is noticing i am doing better. i have been told by probably 10 different people how fantastic i look and whatever i am doing, i should KEEP doing it!! it is a combo of everything, but iodine IS the missing link...that i am convinced of. and if you are seriously concerned about specifically treating candida, then get yourself some iodine! it is THE most powerful anti-bacterial/anti-fungal i have ever taken.

hope this helps you on your quest to regain your health! you can do it...juice fasting and iodine combined with a powerful bowel cleanser (schulze's IF #2) will get you well on the road to recovery, i promise!!!