Disgusted, and wasting away
I have what I believe is severe candida. I've had a nasty case of oral thrush that just won't go away. I started the anti-candida diet about one month ago and have since lost 5-10 lbs and now my jeans won't fit me, my face is sunken in, and I still have that freaking oral thrush and still feel like utter crap 90% of the time. Here's what I have been doing:
One month - Anti-candida diet 95% of the time. By that I mean no
Sugar or white flour but in a month's time I may have consumed a small teaspoon here or there and I did have a bun a few days ago with my BBQ buffalo burger. I have had a few drinks but only the highest quality vodka mixed with fresh lime juice and club soda. I haven't even had fruit nor dairy. One night i had a "light' Activia yogurt which had 9 grams of
Sugar in it, and a very small handful of grapes, and the next day I felt like crap and had the white tongue.
Also for about a month I have been taking two capsules of an anti-candida pill called Candidastat. Seems not to do anything at all really.
For ten days I have been doing a colon cleanse. Nothing strange to report except the occasional white-ish, opaque-y mucous the size of a half dollar and a lot of flakes that stick around after the first toilet flushing.
Could it be that wheat is feeding the candida too? It seems that I am really irritable after eating whole wheat tortillas or rye crackers.
I feel terrible today and I had for breakfast a few 100% rye flat crackers, just rye and salt, with almond butter. I am wasting away on this diet of just whole grains, meats and veggies. No dairy,
Sugar or refined carbs atually has me looking 5 years older. Oh the irony.
I also care for a 3 year old and 9 month old whom I just finished nursing. I feel so depleted in every way possible. I feel I can't beat this, this thing that has taken over my body and mind! I purchased a tongue scraper and scrape religiously. I still see the white coating on my tongue nearly every morning. If I ate nothing but vegetables for a few days then it might go away, bit truthfully I can't live like that, and I am already terribly thin. I am also bruising horribly since doing all the above. What could be causing this? And the tickling feeling in my ears comes and goes, and now for the first time in my life I have anal itching, I never had that even with the hemorrhoids I had while pregnant with my second child. Now that I am doing anti-candida efforts and colon cleansing, NOW I get this??? In all honesty, I feel this is all making the candida WORSE. Please help someone. I am truly dumbfounded. And kindly don't suggest I see a doctor. We are uninsured and I simply can't afford it and a battery of tests at this time. I am sure I have candida though, down to the dizziness and feeling ill around perfumes and the vaginal irritation and the white tongue and the reaction to sugar and dairy. I am sure of that much.