Date:   5/17/2013 8:25:46 AM ( 12 y ago)
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Absolutely. Thanks again for your response. It's interesting that you mention juice fasting as this is something I just started a few days ago, hoping to reduce the load on my digestive system.

I have, however, noticed a fairly dramatic increase in die-off and also a thickening of my oral thrush (which had been covering about half my tongue without much movement for several weeks). I'm trying to determine the cause of this.

Could this be from juicing (greens, jalepenos, green peppers, celery, onions etc. Nothing that's not on any anti-candida diet)? My suspicion would be that the candida is being starved out and more susceptible to my antifungals, and therefore more are dying. However, the thrush thickened so much in a day. By juicing, and therefore consuming much more of these vegetables than I normally, am I increasing the sugar that candida has access to?

Another thought is that by no longer eating a daily plateful of brussels or rutabaga, because I'm juicing, I've removed the thing that was keeping my oral thrush in check.

A couple other possibilities, I had a couple test bites of my first batch of sauerkraut the other day (it had only been sitting about 4 days and so couldn't have been ready). I experienced some-die off from this, which isn't entirely unexpected. However, the next morning is when I woke up with the increase in thrush and heavier die-off with my antifungals. This could be a coincidence. I'm not sure.

In your experience have you ever seen sauerkraut worsen someone's symptoms? If so, what might the reason for this be? Is it the yeast in it? Or might it be something else? The only thinking I have is that there might also be a SIBO problem. However, but for the fact that I experience die-off as antifungals travel through my small intestine, I don't believe I have much in the way of SIBO symptoms.

Lastly, though the increase in die-off/thrush has only been the last couple days, I have been smoking some for maybe the past two weeks (some cigarettes, some pipe tobacco). The pipe is mostly not inhaled. The weather had finally turned in Manitoba and it was nice to have a smoke on a sunbaked balcony! But perhaps this was my big mistake--that this increased my pancreas's insulin output (or something like that... as far as I understand how that works).

Any thoughts would be much appreciated. I don't want to repeat any mistakes, but neither do I want to assume that I've made a mistake when perhaps I haven't (except for the smoking... I really should not have taken that up again).

Cheers!

S
 

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