Date:   1/30/2005 2:54:19 PM ( 19 y ago)
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URL:   https://www.curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=285408

Hello everybody!

I am wondering whether I have candida and I need your opinion, because, quite frankly, I feel a little bit perplexed. Since about 9 months (~late spring last year), I started to get concentration/memory problems and a general feeling of 'brain fog'. This would vary on different days, but for 90% of the brain fog was present. 9 months ago was also the time where I already had had a lot of stress, quite a bad and monotonous diet (quite rich in sugar), and was on hormonal medications to help treating androgenic alopecia which had happened to me about 2 years earlier (finasteride + some topical flutamide/spironolocatone mix with dmso to help the absorption, but dmso also transfers substances to the bloodstream through the skin, so I am pretty damn sure some flut/spiro mix inside my body). At that time I also used topical prednisolone for about a month, and in July took some orally for about 2 weeks in small dose. Since that time, many things seemed to change in my body, apart from the 'brain fog' which is still persistent:

- lost some muscle mass for no apparent reason, got flabby,
- water retention, esp in the face ('moon face'),bags and dark cirkles under eyes
- some minor acne-like changes in the skin, it lost its shine and health (my friend who used to see me once in a while kept saying I looked "green")
- noticed some strange sediment under my fingernails, as if I had dirt under them all the time, except it didn't look like dirt, it's a bit greenish, and each time I filed nails off they would grow back with this green thing.
- skin complexion has become pale, esp on days when I feel worse,
- irregular and sudden needs to urinate, I just can't hold it off (the second most frustrating ailment after brain fog!!!!)
- bloated abdomen/gas
- constipation
- slow apparent wound healing; once I get a pimple, it doesn't disappear until a week or so later, and still leaves a mark on my skin; once I got a sratch on my hand in November last year, just a plain, surface one, and it seemed to heal forever, even now leaving me with a small mark on my hand + got a fingertip scraped off (in october last year) and the cutaneous tissue still hasn't recovered fully
- fatigue
- often felt cold (feet and hands and generally)
- developed some food allergies , brain fog and faitigue are the worst after eating sugar
- sometimes felt drunk (eg. when eating mushroom (!!!) dumplings)
- problems sleeping, got some depression/neurosis

And many others. I was prescribed Zoloft, 100mg, for my brain fog (and what my doctors think is just a depression/neurosis on *its own*), which is my main concern (had to quit college, although I was and outstanding student) and it helped, but only because it eased out the stress, which got the symptoms worse.

Oh, and I also got a coated tongue, in a geographical manner (as if one half of the tongue was coated, and the other wasn't) and got some pimples on it which got bigger the farer into the throat. And the salive spit-test also went positively.

I've been taking some grapfruit seed extract and MSM + limited the Sugar for one month, but see no bigger change as far as now.


I appologise for the long post, but I need to know your opinion!
 

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