Has anyone else had unnecessary gall bladder surgery and still suffer the same symptoms, only to find it has to do with metals poisons (which can mimic GB symptoms), food allergies and stress?   [End]
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no, but nizoral shampoo works! Of course I also was on a very strict antinflammatory/anticandida diet.   [End]
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Food product manufacturers are starting to step up to the task of labeling allergens: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, July 18, 2005 STRUGGLING TO IDENTIFY ALLERGENIC FOODS NEW ORLEANS-- New government regulations will soon require food companies to clearly label foods containing major allergens, but companies aren’t sure how they will accurately accomplish this, according to experts speaking here at the annual meeting of the Institute of Food Technologists. A major problem no one yet agrees on is how to measure the amount of allergen in a food that poses a risk. “The law is ...
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it’s really touph when peolpe don’t recognize when you’re sick, and could use their help dealing with physical or emotional problems. It’s important to find the kind of people who do want to help you, although that’s touph when you’re sick. And your quality of test results may totally have to do with who did your test. If you recognize your symptoms as inflammation related to candida, which is what candida does is swell up your soft tissues of the nose throat, intestines, etc, causing all those symptoms, then maybe the best thing for you to do is bypass the doctors and pharmacists and nays ...
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I test almost off the charts for mercury, 11 other metals used in manufacturing among other things, also have systemic candida, probably as a result. I had a crippling relapse in January, but am healthy as a horse right now (so long as I stay on a strict anti-inflammatory diet.) I’m starting to see beyond how my sickness correlates to metals, since I have had near identical relapses off and on since I was a child, more than 20 years. The new correlation I see to my health is dropping my toxic, complaining, unpleasable, terminally unhappy, violent husband, and strictly limiting my exposure ...
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How many of you guys have had to go on digestive enzymes, or something else, following gall bladder removal?   [End]
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Please consider that a lot of the problem could be teh painkillers -- causing bowel impaction. Doctors are too dense to realize this even when they are looking at megacolon on an X-ray. They practically had me mainlining laxatives, and I didn’t get better until I realized the docs were the idiots causing me the pain by prescribing constipating drugs. They really don’t get it that constipation pain can make you feel like you’re going to die. Your pharmacist can tell you painkillers constipate. Were you not in massive pain as the air or fluid they pumped you up with evacuated? That was press ...
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I don’t take aciphex because the conventional doctors and GB surgeon really didn’t addrses my problem by taking out the GB. My problem was high stress, cheating on my anti-inflammatory diet and having undiagnosed metals toxicity that is now being treated properly. My specialist told me not to take teh surgeon’s prescriptions. They only made me sick, because they were given under the assumption that the surgery was the best thing for me. I’ve had all those tests as well, and my specialist said my gallbladder was inflamed because of stress, diet and metals toxicity and candida overgrowth als ...
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I have the same experience with mercury-free cod liver oil. My doctor said once a day, but that’s really aksing for it.   [End]
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These are the tests that helped me determine the role of inflammation/candida/metals toxicity in my health: IgG test available through any doctor will expose any delayed food allergies that may be keeping you from making progress. Comprehensive stool test Any doctor can order it, but only a doctor knowledgeable about the ills of inflammation can properly read it. Great Smoky Mountains Daignostic Lab: http://www.gsdl.com/home/news/connections/vol9/conn20000906-p.html. Metals Toxicity Stool test available from Doctor’s Data Inc.: http://www.doctorsdata.com/. Any doctor can order the ...
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I havent’ had one since I went strictly on this anti-inflammatory/candida diet: Candida Diet Candida Diet - Foods To Eat MEATS (Should be free of antibiotics, nitrates, preservatives & Hormones)Beef ChickenFish (eat moderately because of metals)LambTurkey OILS (Cold-pressed)Flaxseed (not used for cooking)Olive Oil (good to cook with)Sesame Oil (not used for cooking)Sunflower Oil (not used for cooking) GRAINS (Whole - not refined)Amaranth*BarleyBrown RiceBuckwheatMillet*OatsPasta (whole grains that are not wheat)Quinoa*Rye*If gluten intolerant stay away from barley, oats, rye, spelt ...
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I like the rice milk, and my diet doesn’t allow soy, yogurt or other dairy (don’t like it anyway). My favorite are the flavored Rice Dream milks (chocolate and vanilla) great in coffee or on cereal.   [End]
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I was healthy on this anti-inflammatory/candida diet it for almost a decade until I got cocky about my health and started eating whatever I wanted (this diet includes fruit, but I dont’ eat them because of the sugars): Candida Diet Candida Diet - Foods To Eat MEATS (Should be free of antibiotics, nitrates, preservatives & Hormones)Beef ChickenFish (eat moderately because of metals)LambTurkey OILS (Cold-pressed)Flaxseed (not used for cooking)Olive Oil (good to cook with)Sesame Oil (not used for cooking)Sunflower Oil (not used for cooking) GRAINS (Whole - not refined)Amaranth*BarleyB ...
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I think it is collapsing on itself since at least 250,000 people are documented killed by prescription drugs every year, and the FDA is recalling drug after drug for not doing what it’s billed to do: hormone replacements, Vioxx. And theyre putting labels on drugs thought to be safe: antidepressants. It’s just that everyone is pretending everything is OK so that doctors and drug companies can keep on making money off the sick people, our trusted family doctor doesn’t look bad and the sick people can pretend their doctors are doing everything he can. No one wants to believe their system isn’ ...
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I enjoyed your lisp. Dry lips make dehydration a quick diagnosis. Drink six to eight glasses of water a day (I mean H20, not fruit juices or anything else, nothing replaces water), and drink it in even doses throughout the day. And if you drink sodas or coffee or anything caffeinated, you have to offset the water that diuretic takes out of you by drinking another glass of water with it. Also, you really may need to look into your diet to make sure you have enough good fats and oils, which help the skin. Maybe take a spoonful of mercury-free cod liver oil to make sure you have enough omeg ...
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Be very careful if they tell you they want to cauterize your oddi sphincter, or whatever they’re calling surgery on the ducts after gallbladder removal these days. That surgery almost has as many people disabled by it (chronic lifetime pain) as it has people who think it was successful, except that they don’t really ask everyone, so the reporting is probably faulty, probably deliberately faulty. On the other hand, covering up how unhappy people are with their sugery makes a lot of money for surgeons. I personally never needed my gallbladder surgery because I had the same symptoms after rem ...
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I did them at the same time, under the care of a doctor. Why not, one caused the other, and they help perpetuate each other. However, I’m feeling sick on my metals detox drugs right now as I’m taking them with the antifungals for candida, so if you feel sick taking both treatmetns at once, do them one at a time.   [End]
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lack of iron (ferrous fumarate) can mean that you have some internal bleeding, and it seems to be tied to candida. My doctor has me on iron, but make sure you take it with vitamin C so that your weakened digestive system can absorb the iron.   [End]
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This is the anti-inflammatory, candida diet that kept me healthy for ten years until I strayed and started eating inflammatory foods back in February: Candida Diet Candida Diet - Foods To Eat MEATS (Should be free of antibiotics, nitrates, preservatives & Hormones)Beef ChickenFish (eat moderately because of metals)LambTurkey OILS (Cold-pressed)Flaxseed (not used for cooking)Olive Oil (good to cook with)Sesame Oil (not used for cooking)Sunflower Oil (not used for cooking) GRAINS (Whole - not refined)Amaranth*BarleyBrown RiceBuckwheatMillet*OatsPasta (whole grains that are not wheat) ...
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I actually did the same thing, telling my two teams of doctors at two medical hospitals (one was for a second opinion) that they were making me worse. I was nearly bedridden at this time, and unable to keep food down. I’d lost about 30 pounds, effectively making me a human skeleton, though a very bloated one. I spent all my available time (my three hour window where my mind worked reasonably well) crossreferencing my own symptoms online. I found out about the inflammatory response assocaited with candida and then started being able to get food down, rice first. It was when I started readin ...
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I’ve never done a liver cleanse. I had bad experiences doing a colon cleanse, and don’t tend to prescribe myself over the counter remedies now that I have a doctor who has given me life saving advice.   [End]
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Get a probiotic that has millions of live cells per capsule with several strains of probiotic, such as lactobacillus and acidophilus. I’ve heard of brands with 15 billion live strains. I’ve found some with 10 billion. Take the pills between meals, not with food. Also, try very hard to follow a strict diet that eliminates inflammatory foods such as wheat, sugar and dairy. Otherwise, you’re feeding the very yeast you are trying to outnumber with probiotics. I can’t tell you what the cleansing process felt like because I was so sick to begin with. I think all the claims I hear online abou ...
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Here’s a list of symptoms, complete with a neat article on the stages of candida. I certainly can’t recommend the rest of the site, but I liked the article. http://www.formerfatguy.com/articles/candida-symptoms.asp   [End]
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If doctors see that you have a lot of symptoms whose common thread is inflammation, such as sinus proglems, joint pain, headaches and constipation (just for example), but they say the symptoms are unrelated and give you a pill for each one, then you know you probably have a problem with inflammation/candida that they just don’t have the sophistication to recognize or treat properly. Everyone with candida tends to have a different set of symptoms, because inflammation attacks each person at their weakest points. One person may start out with skin fungus, yeast infections and athletes feet, ...
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I don’t commend the products on this site, but found the article on the stages of candida to be helpful: http://www.formerfatguy.com/articles/candida-symptoms.asp   [End]
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The drugs they gave me for gastritis didn’t help, because (I now know why) I have metals toxicity causing the symptoms, and systemic candida. The aciphex, protonix and muscle relaxers actually made things worse.   [End]
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I’ve had good luck sleeping using Valerian, although I’ve heard others say it depresses them if they use it consecutive nights. I bought a capsule with valerian and kava kava that I’m going to try tonight. Kava kava is somewhat tranquilizing. At least. I was recommended to try l-tryptophan (the ingredient in turkey that makes you relax). I couldn’t find any without gelatin though.   [End]
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What helped me prior to discovering food allergies, metals poisoning, thus an inflammatory response, was this anti-inflammatory diet. It’s a strict form of the canidida diet you find online and at your library: Candida Diet - Foods To Eat MEATS (Should preferably be free of antibiotics, nitrates, preservatives & Hormones)Beef ChickenFish (eat moderately because of metals)LambTurkey OILS (Cold-pressed)Flaxseed (not used for cooking)Olive Oil (good to cook with)Sesame Oil (not used for cooking)Sunflower Oil (not used for cooking) GRAINS (Whole - not refined)Amaranth*BarleyBrown RiceBuck ...
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The doctor did the same thing to me. I had post-surgical problems; he wouldn’t entertain the idea, because it was incriminating to him. He wouldn’t entertain the idea I didn’t have unrelated problems either, so he just tried to make me think it was all in my head. I’m filing a complaint against his undoctorly behavior.   [End]
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percocet is a pain killer and its side effect is constipation (see website): http://www.drugs.com/percocet.html   [End]
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I dropped 25 poinds in Feb and March, and got no relief from gallbladder surgery. In fact it made me worse. You could find that like me your problems weren’t gallbladder related to begin with. When I told the doc I had pain in my back, he did all the pancreas tests. I could tell he was itching to do more procedures, but I was just mad because he seemed to be barking up the wrong tree all along. I left his care, went to a gastrointerologists, who found I had gastritis and low bowel motility and hemorroids. Later, the cause was determined to be metal poisoning (12 different environmental m ...
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could be constipation from the painkillers, or you could find that like me your problems weren’t gallbladder related to begin with. When I told the doc I had pain in my back, he did all the pancreas tests. I could tell he was itching to do more procedures, but I was just mad because he seemed to be barking up the wrong tree all along. I left his care, went to a gastrointerologists, who found I had gastritis and low bowel motility and hemorroids. Later, the cause was determined to be metal poisoning (12 different environmental metals making me fatiqued, depressed, bloated, pained in the joi ...
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Stop taking the painkillers now. They can constipate you so bad you will have impaction requiring surgery, and the pain makes you think you’re going to die. I was on oxycontin, but most painkillers cause constipation. It’s on their symptoms sheet, but doctors don’t seem to realize that the constipation can get extreme, or they play it down hoping you get better on your own. The problem with this theory is that the more pain you’re in the more likely they are to prescribe you oxycontin or percocet, or whatever. Same thing happened to me, and the ER doctor and the surgeon admired the surgeo ...
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Hi Friends, We have a very important national project and we need everyone to help. Please take a minute to e-mail your US Senators (and call them, too, if you can) to vote NO on Crawford to run FDA. Crawford is doing NOTHING to stop the use of mercury dental fillings. Please read Charlie Brown’s e-mail below for reasons why Crawford must not be appointed. Again, please e-mail and/or call if possible your US Senators to vote NO on Crawford to run the FDA. Thank you, Mary Ann Newell E-mail message from Charlie Brown: We oppose Crawford to be FDA Commissioner -- As ...
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I have a poor response to beans too. They are high in sugars, thus feed yeast, or maybe I just have an undiagnosed sensitivity to them. I too would like to know why soy is forbidden! Meanwhile, here’s a list of foods that contribute to the gas pains of inflammation-response: Foods That Contribute to Gas Production Legumes Most beans, especially dried beans and peas, baked beans, soy beans, lima beans Milk & milk products Milk; ice cream; and cheese Vegetables Cabbage; radishes; onions; broccoli; Brussels sprouts; cauliflower; cucumbers; sauerkraut; kohlrabi; asparagus Root veget ...
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Sounds like inflammation, or candida, or whatever: I started with the diet: Candida Diet Candida Diet - Foods To Eat MEATS (Should be antibiotic, nitrate, preservative & Hormone free)Beef ChickenFish (eat moderately because of metals)LambTurkey OILS (Cold-pressed)Flaxseed (not used for cooking)Olive Oil (good to cook with)Sesame Oil (not used for cooking)Sunflower Oil (not used for cooking) GRAINS (Whole - not refined)Amaranth*BarleyBrown RiceBuckwheatMillet*OatsPasta (whole grains that are not wheat)Quinoa*Rye*If gluten intolerant stay away from barley, oats, rye, spelt NUTS & SE ...
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Get an IgG food allergies blood test and a stool test from great smoky mountains lab. However, if your doctor doesn’t believe inflammation can cause your symptoms, then he’ll consider the stool test a waste of time and won’t interpret it correctly. However, you can take the stool test results: http://www.gsdl.com/home/news/connections/vol9/conn20000906-p.html to an appropriate doctor, if your conventional doctor thinks your talk of candida is hooey.   [End]
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Get an IgG food allergies blood test and a stool test from great smoky mountains lab. However, if your doctor doesn’t believe inflammation can cause your symptoms, then he’ll consider the stool test a waste of time and won’t interpret it correctly. However, you can take the stool test results: http://www.gsdl.com/home/news/connections/vol9/conn20000906-p.html to an appropriate doctor, if your conventional doctor thinks your talk of candida is hooey.   [End]
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I got the idea that the concept of ”fighting yeast with yeast” came up on a previous thread on another forum because some storefront doc was trying to pawn off his extra brewers yeast inventory by telling a yeast-infected person that maybe his yeast might kill their different strain of yeast. I think it is an attempt to move inventory. As I understand it, yeast has inflammatory properties, whether it’s good or bad yeast, and isn’t that what the candida diet is designed to combat, inflammation?   [End]
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It’s been my experience after ten years on the candida diet, that if I go back on a normal diet, I relapse into sickness -- and I mean bad. However, if I eat on the diet 99 percent of the time, I have been able to get away with some cheating, though not the kind of cheating some people think is cheating. I might get away with a ”normal” meal, but then again, I am just as likely to get sick from it later.   [End]
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Apple cider vinegar is big in the Body Ecology Diet, which is an excellent diet. And a lot of people do use it since it is less offensive to the digestive system than regular vinegar. However, it just doesn’t make sense to me to add vinegar to the intestinal fermentation process of yeast. Perhaps in the latter stages of dieting after all your symptoms wane?   [End]
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For those who want to be very strict about the diet, the overachievers among us who don’t want any inflammation symptoms, I’m working on somewhat comprehensive sheet of what foods to eat and what foods not to eat, based on the Hagglund Diet my doctor gave me. This list is similar to the Yeast Connection diet, but stricter (the Yeast Connection books explain the troubles the following foods cause, and I can’t find a copy of the Hagglund diet except for the copy my doctor gave me, so the books are still an excellent source to explain why to follow an anti-inflammatory food diet. Please ...
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You can probably get away with cheating some, but your progress will be retarded. I was the healthiest I’ve ever been when I was strict on the diet. Then I went off and had a massive relapse in February: unable to work, unable to get out of bed, fatiqued, in chronic pain, covered up with allergy symptoms, bloated, etc. I have returned to health by being strict about the diet and by tests that exposed my food allergies (IgG test you can get at just about any doctors office) and metal toxicities (fecal metals test). I’m feeling ill because of my doctor’s detox and immune-building program rig ...
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I don’t know how valerium root rates with candida experts, but I’ve had good luck getting sleep with it. Also, don’t underestimate the effects of caffeine. I can’t sleep if I have anything caffeinated after 5 p.m., even just chocolate.   [End]
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Here is a more comprehensive list of mercury forums that I got from publishing my list on other candida forums: http://herballure.com/ubbthreads/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=UBB19 http://www.abchomeopathy.com/forum2.php/15384/ http://www.medical-library.net/phorum/framer.html?/phorum/read.php (costs $20 to participate, but nothing to read) http://www.mercuryexposure.org/forum/index.php?showforum=15 http://www.mercuryexposure.org/forum/index.php?showforum=14 http://pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/metals   [End]
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Here’s some more: http://www.abchomeopathy.com/forum2.php/15384/ http://www.medical-library.net/phorum/framer.html?/phorum/read.php (costs $20 to participate, but nothing to read) http://www.mercuryexposure.org/forum/index.php?showforum=15 http://www.mercuryexposure.org/forum/index.php?showforum=14   [End]
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List of symptoms for metals toxicity, some of which overlap with gallbladder symptoms: In a study done on over 1300 patients, symptoms were reported which ranged from: Neurological Problems such as: Chronic or frequent headaches Numbness and tingling anywhere Dizziness Ringing or noises in the ear Tremors in hands, feet, lips, eyelids, tongue Lowering of pain threshold Psychological disorders such as: Irritability Nervousness Shyness or timidity Loss of memory Inability to concentrate Mental confusion Mood changes Lack of interest in lif ...
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I know it’s true. I spent the last decade having doctors tell me my symptoms were unrelated, give me handfuls of drugs, then telling me as I got sick on their drugs that they could irradiate my thyroid, or take out my gallbladder or check me out for a hysterectomy. Beware of any doctore who can’t explain all your symptoms, but expects to cure you by cutting something else. That’s how you know a doctor is either kidding you or himself about his abilities. The gallbladder, thyroid, tonsils, appendix, etc. are all ”unnecessary” organs they can milk my HMO and me to pay for, without actually ...
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you’re scaring me. My fathers’s grandmother has had everything taken out and still has chronic pain in addition to having to be put on lifetime maintenance drugs for all the organs she’s missing. Have you considered that you may have food intolerances (an IgG test can tell you) or you may be toxic with mercury (a fecal metals test can tell you.) I am very sorry I had my gallbladder taken out. I had no stones, and the fact that the ejection fraction (the reason he gave for surgery) was low, was probably because of my mercury and thallium toxicity and egg/milk/yeast allergies. The surgery di ...
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I ended up in the ER with constipation so bad I though i was dying. I had no bowel movemetn for 7 days, despite being on Ex Lax, and the doctors didn’t seem to see why I was so upset to be doubled over. Well, I couldn’t poop, and I was in eye-popping pain! The ER doctor did not explain the pain, but told me I was OK, according to all their tests. I could barele walk or talk I was in so much pain. He did prescribe magnesium citrate, which you can get over the counter at a pharmacy. That’s how I know the pain was constipation. I guess he didn’t want to say, ”welp, I guess I prescribed you so ...
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My doctor specializes in candida and has his own clinic. I got real lucky. This guy is a former UCLA graduate and hospital administrator who couldn’t stand to watch patients with inflammation, metals poison, allergy and food toxicity problems falling through teh cracks and treated like they were psychosomatic complainers. He was also sick of seeing them die in the care of other doctors, who were simply performing by the book without using critical thinking. I’ve heard good and bad things about naturalists and homeopaths. My doctor is both, but many doctors claiming to be naturalists, are r ...
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Here’s the site I went to when I found out my symptoms weren’t gallbladder, but were metals poisoning. It has good info. http://herballure.com/ubbthreads/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=UBB19&page=0&view=co...   [End]
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I had no stones, as confirmed by the ultrasound and CAT scan. However, my ejection fraction was below 30 percent, and doctors salivate over your gallbladder in that case, and every nurse and healthcare worker out there except my candida specialist say that gallbladder surgery is so common it’s better to take it out and be safe than sorry. My argument to the surgeon was that the ejection fraction has been below 30 percent for ten years, why take it out now when I’m having a variety of symptoms that don’t seem to relate to gallbladder that should be addressed first. He claimed the main probl ...
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I’ve suffered with severe food, chemical, environmental allegies for more than a decade, with only the anti-inflammatory food diet to help me (with a few homeopathic remedies), but recently got the answer to why I was so sick. Metals poisoning. Has anyone else experienced this?   [End]
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My gallbladder was removed in feb. I was already nearly incapacitated with pain and nausea and somehow got worse afterwards. I have since been found to have metals poisoning, explaining all my symptoms, not just the one the slice-happy surgeon wanted to hear. Anyone stewing over the fact that they had an unnecessary surgery? What did you do? I’m filing a formal complaint, not about the gallbladder surgery itself, so much as the doctor’s refusal to entertain, or let me explore the idea that there were alternative options that were more urgent than the surger. It would be hard to complain ab ...
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Isn’t that like fighting a flood with water? Not only does yeast feed yeast, but many candida sufferers actually have allergies to brewers and bakers yeast, myself included. It sounds to me like your doctor may just have stocked too much yeast in his inventory and is looking to unload it. Or maybe he just says he’s a candida doctor to make you feel better about him, when he only just has read a little bit about it, but not the part about yeast feeding the inflammation or fungal problem.   [End]
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The metals and candida connectino is definitely on my mind since I tested almost off the charts for two environmental metals, mercury and thallium. I have certainly wondered if canidida is the real source of my immune and allergy problems for almost a decade, and I may have my proof that candida is only a symptom of the poison. HOwever, the diagnosis of toxicity to 12 environmental metals is also very strong argument for the candida treatments since the anti-inflammatory foods diet is the only thing that helped me, and conventional doctors only made me worse with their ignorance. Candida m ...
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I’m on a shopping trip for a probiotic today. I’m looknig for something with lactobacillus and bifidobacterium, which my stool tests showed I am low in. So, I’ll look for something with billiions of live cells of probiotics. And since I’m strict on the candida diet, I will look for something with no milk, sugar, wheat, whey, gelatin, casein, etc. The probiotics I look for tend to say 10 billion live cells or more, and be vegetable caps. I’ve heard of brands with 13 billion live strains. That’s what I’m looknig for.   [End]
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I had chronic fatique. doc put me on injectable vitamin B12, although he’s using something different now, methyl b12. It really makes a huge difference, not just in my energy, but my state of well being. It helps you digest food properly, which was the root of my problem. I can’t help but think that the energy drink could be pushing your system, not healing it. I took EmergenC for a while, and the sugar content started giving me an undeniable anaphylaxis symptoms.   [End]
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It’s what’s for dinner. Has anyone used this for metals detox?   [End]
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My metals test (one for urine, and another for stool) was done by Doctor’s Data Inc. The stool metals test seemed to be a lot more thorough.   [End]
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my doctor has used it for years to remove metals. he said the metals do disappear over time, obvious through followup testing, though I’d like to hear from people who’ve done it to see how they reacted and how long it took. I’ll be on it for the next two months   [End]
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My doc put me on the following metal detox kit. Anyone heard of it, have any educated opinions? Heel Detox-Kit includes nux vomica-homaccord 50ml, lymphomyosot 50 ml and berberis hommaccord 50ml. These are oral drops. I’m to take ten drops from each separate bottle after every meal.   [End]
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but does she believe in inflammation being a big problm. i have a hard time myself believing candida is the main culprit, even though I can’t help but see its handiwork in the fungal infections. Also, my doc recently found that my main problem is metals poisoning, with candida being an offshoot.   [End]
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my doc prescribed multivitamen Nutrient 950, four a day. This supplement has much more stuff in it than most multivites, and they appear to be ”cooked” in a way that doesn’t feed yeast.   [End]
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Rice Dream milk is sweet, and tastes better on cereal than real milk (I say that because I’ve always hated milk, and I’m allergic to it for real.) I found a good salad dressing in the Yeast Connection Cookbook where you simply use fresh squeezed lemon juice, pepper and salt, and safflower oil to coat your salad. I used to mix in shrimp or tuna until I found out I’m toxified with mercury. I shouldn’t probably use Vegennaise for salad dressings and coleslaw, since it has soy and a few other ingredients frowned upon by the strict candida dieter, but I wanted to mention it if only to see if s ...
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I got away with coffee yesterday, but I don’t know if it’s worth it since I’m now so worried i’ll have a reaction. It was a guilty pleasure.   [End]
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A lot of people with candida respond very poorly to any kind of grass, I mean by eating grass grains, and on skin-prick tests. It feeds yeast/funguses. Have you thought of packing on weight by eating the spelt grains? I’ve recently been packing on some weight after discovering spelt bread (frozen loaf, waffles and bagels) at the health food store. It’s kept frozen, so you have to toast it, but I’m really excited about it, because it’s as good as any bread i’ve eaten and I don’t feel sick after. I even found a spelt pretzel for a snack.   [End]
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I found out what was wrong with me by taking the simplest approach and only eating things strictly on the candida diet. When I saw that I got better on the diet and got worse when I cheated, I distinctly saw a connection. Convinced of the connection, I found a candida specialist. I have to drive to the next state, but I found a good doctor, who tested me for food allergies, and gave me a more strict form of the diet to follow than I had found online. Discovering my food allergies, and pairing it with a diet that strictly eliminates inflammatory foods that bring on candida-associated sympto ...
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What are your opinions on raw milk? It read one artiting stating that one woman cured severe candidiasis in intestine(so severe it was gonna kill her) by eating lots of raw saturated fats such as milk, butter,cream ect. Also read that raw milk has acipophilus in it, and if I make kefirin raw milk it would have more beneficial bacteria. Could you possibly post a link? That sounds like a great story. I’ve also read that any milk was not meant to be ingested by humans. Rubbish. We are mammals - we are milk producers!! We are clearly designed to drink milk. JV.   [End]
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OK in all seriousness, the problem may be your paying for all the remedies and cures, most of which are just marketing ploys not real healthful, thus very frustrating becuase you’re still sick after popping them, and you’ve been ripped off to boot. The only thing that seems to work, in my experience, and following the experience of those on the diet, is a strict attention to following the diet, then, if that doesn’t cure your ills after a few months, start an elimination diet to find out if you have a food allergy, then if that doesn’t turn you you around, you find a good candida doctor, ...
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Following up on our last, homeopathci, side-splitting AAARRRGG! You do it because eating like everyone else makes you sick, and fat.   [End]
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my doc uses the CDSA Stool analysis to check for yeast and parasites. I’ve also found that insurance will pay for it, so far.   [End]
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May I yell with you? AAAARRRGGG! That does feel better.   [End]
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I feel really bad for sanctioning cheating, almost as bad as cheating! But keep in mind that those of us on the candida diet, when we say ”cheat,” are meaning it in a completely different way than the average dieter, who considers a meal from McDonalds cheating. A McDonalds meal complete with a cola sugarbomb would probably lay me up for days. In other words, when I say cheat, I mean I stay on the diet 99 percent every day, while perhaps allowing myself a bit of soy cheese on a vegetarian pizza or a piece of fruit, knowing my throat may swell up a bit because of the fruit sugars. I may ch ...
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I’ve heard several comments from board participants about how they doubt the ability of blood tests to be accurate when testing for food allergies. I’m curious what your reasoning is, and also whether anyone doubts the usefulness of the non-reactive test results in determining allergy.   [End]
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My dandruff was totally candida related. It accompanied other candida related yeast fuguses on my skin, such as small red eczema spots on my face and elsewhere. You can order Nizoral online as well, although I always worry about heat during shipping ruining a chemical product. I found the Nizoral at the health food store in the shampoo area. However, there may be other competing brands with nizoral in it. And it’s possible there are other antifungals besides Nizoral you can use to treat fungus that I just don’t know about. My doctor prescribed Nizoral to me, saying it only recently become ...
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Anyone had this test and failed, like me? I have the following mercury toxicity: Normal is less than .05. I have .244. Is this normal toxicity or super bad?   [End]
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My dandruff, a yeast related fungus, just like foot fungus, eczema, etc., which I’ve also had troubles with, was so bad I had scabs where I itched. My doc put me on Nizoral shampoo (saying to keep it rubbed into the scalp while you bath, preferably about 15 to 30 minutes so that it sinks in). I’m dandruff free now, and just use the shampoo periodically, not even monthhly, just in case.   [End]
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It worked on me, but if you think you’re stinking now -- and it really is parasites -- wait til the artemesia and billberry start to working. YOu may be chasing yourself and every other living thing out of just about every place but the great outdoors   [End]
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It worked on me, but if you think you’re stinking now -- and it really is parasites -- wait til the artemesia and billberry start to working. YOu may be chasing yourself and every other living thing out of just about every place but the great outdoors   [End]
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I feel like a traitor saying you can probably cheat sometimes. But I think I wouldn’t have had my last relapse if I hadn’t turned into an inflammatory food whore, wholesale ignoring the diet to eat like the rest of America.   [End]
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So many people are on so many versions of the candida diet, I love to give out this list of dos and don’ts on this website: http://www.annboroch.com/candida.htm just so we’re generally talking about the same thing. I had to wonder if the diet was working, even though it’s the only thing that has helped with my host of symptoms, until I got my allergy food test. Turns out I have genuine allergies to a lot of the diet’s forbidden, inflammatory foods, which explains why the diet works. Now that I’ve cut out foods on teh diet that I’m allergic to, it works even better.   [End]
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I’ve heard of docs using artemesia and bilberry to exorcise parasites. Worked on me   [End]
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Did you raelly recommend sticking a clove of garlic up the arse? I have so many people I’d like to recommend do the same!   [End]
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I ”defeated” candida (or systemic allergies, or whatever people are calling it) for seven years, but then started cheating on the diet. There’s also undeniable proof that after a decade on the diet I developed allergies to common foods I leaned on too heavily on such a limited diet. Now I’m re-educating myself about the candida/inflammatory diet, elminiting the foods I have allergies to, and starting a ”rotating diet” that will keep me from developing new allergies.   [End]
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I’ve got to get my head out of othe people’s a**es.   [End]
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Great, I’m glad to find someone who thinks like I do. I recently relapsed after feeling strong enough to go off the diet. I’m sure my doc will put me on antifungals at my followup visit. My head is just whirling because every time I bring up symptoms on a website it seems like people want to prescribe me their drug of choice. I stick to the preparations my doc gives me, taking as few prescriptions as possible. I’m finding that the allergy test is really helping since there were foods on the diet that I’m actually allergic to, foods I was eating daily.   [End]
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Has anyone here had any success by strictly following the candida diet -- without any over the counter herbal pills? I’m not talking about leaving out probiotics, multi-vitamins and flax, but self-prescribed herbal drug combos you get online or at the health food store or phamacy?   [End]
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I think I found my specialist a decade ago either through the Yeast Connection doctors list (they provide a list of allergy doctors that I found out about the list by reading an early edition of the ”Yeast Connection Handbook” or cookbook.) Or I found him by typing in ”candida doctor” and my town and state. I can still find him by typing in candida doctor and the city I lived in, and he’s on several alternative physician lists. You can look under alternative medicine and homeopathy and naturalists. I don’t have any in the town I live in now, although I did find a traditional chinese doc ...
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I’ve heard of white thrush on the mouth or other orifices. But in the stool, it could be something other than yeast: mucus, something bleached from chemical saturation, a poorly digested pill or pill capsule.   [End]
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sorry, didn’t mean to implicate your pooper   [End]
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You may have something a lot more serious than yeast if you have blood in your stool. You should see a gastroenterologist.   [End]
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My MD is a candida specialist whose clinic specializes in people with candida and autoimmune disorders, etc. However, I would like to think that any doc can order you a food allergy test. It’s a blood test. However, I have a lot of reasons to think a regular doctor may lauph out loud at the idea of allergy testing because I’ve never had one even suggest I was suffering from food allergies -- even though my symptoms are so clearly allergic symptoms. Maybe you can try an allergist or dietician. However, I would suggest that you have a candida specialist, homeopathic doc or traditional chines ...
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It can perforate your gut, and cause doctors to have to do surgery to remove impactions. However, that may not be your problem.   [End]
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I’ve had a horrible experience with a bowel cleanse products, namely Dr. Christopher’s cleanse. Be very afraid! If you have IBS, food allergies cuasing your bowel to inflame or some bowel motility problem, the last thing you need is to intervene with anything other than a good diet. You could create an impaction. If you need a movement desperately, use what the experts use, magnesium citrate from the pharmacy, or, even better, go see a good candida doctor, homeopath or chinese MD. But keep in mind that anything that forces bowel movement will affect your health in many other ways as well.   [End]
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don’t underestimat the pain from simple constipation. It can make you feel like you want to die, and for some reason, doctors just don’t come up with this explanation. It just doesn’t occur to them. A gastroenterologist told me constipation pain can feel like being shot at close range in the gut, but I had to ask him directly, ”could constipation be the source of my pain?” He acted like this is common knowledge,when not even the ER doctors could explain the pain and they were looknig at my X-rays that showed the colon elasticized beyond normal or even comfortable to look at.   [End]
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I’ve found that all the meds the doctors give me make me sick. and you don’t need antibiotics for the flu. They just give you that becasue if you die of pneumonia, your family can’t sue them for not covering all the bases. I really have made a huge realization recently, finding out that I have food allergies, with foods that are actually on the diet. That explains why the diet isn’t kicking in so fast. I take live-cell probiotics and multivitamens, but I really shy away from any prescription drugs (unless they are prescribed by my candida doctor). They could devastate a person with an alre ...
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I had been using only the candida diet (http://www.annboroch.com/candida.htm) to get well after a recent candida relapse, but started making much quickers strides jsut in the few days when my food allergy tests came back. Turns out the diet was working on several levels, the foremost being that it eliminated most of the foods I’m allergic to because they are high in inflammatory properties. Now that I know all the foods I’m allergic to (even ones accepted on the diet), I can move a lot quicker. The danger of the diet is that once you eliminate so many foods, you start to rely on certain o ...
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Candilass, I had pain and tightness in the same area. Turned out it was two things: acute stomach inflammation found through an upper endoscopy, and constipation caused by Irritable Bowel Syndrome and found with a lower endoscopy. My doctor put me on antacids that made me extremely ill, which I attribute to the cause being beyond his grasp and inflammation related, or food allergy related. I get these pains in times of stress, and, I guess, after eating allergens. I can se how relaxation techniques would help.   [End]
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I meant the probiotics, didn’t even know about fungal defense   [End]
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Tastes like a nutty kind of bread if toasted. Not so good untoasted, perhaps because I got it frozen.   [End]
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thanks, Tony, I do have kefir grains and shared with a few people already and drink kefir too. I am just more cautious with kefir since after kefir i get coated tongue almost immediatelly- i still can’t figure out why since i don’t get if i eat a bunch of sugar let’s say from oranges, maybe it’s because of sensitivity of yeasts which in kefir shouldn’t spurr c.albicans growth; what do you think?   [End]
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I’ve heard of people getting really sick on Primal Defense, especially after they up the dosage. What do you think went wrong?   [End]
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You could be like me and have a milk allergy, in addition to having candida, especially if you’re reacting to the fruit sugars. It was worth it for me to get a blood test of food allergies.   [End]
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I had something similar, stress-related, food-allergy related eczema. The anti-canddia diet works, as does food allergy avoidance and majorly destressing, at least that’s how it went for me. I’ve also heard of people having a poor response to ThreeLac, because of fecal impaction.   [End]
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We have similar problem with weight loss, similarly limited diet, no sugar, wheat, dairy, caffeine, processed foods. I try to put on weight with spelt breads, loading it up with soybutter (like peanut butter, only I’m allergic to nuts). It’s very filling if you can handle spelt. I’ve run across spelt bread in frozen waffle form at my health food store and just toast them for breakfast. I’ve also found spelt in loaf and bagel form. Make sure you toast them before you eat. I’ve also been raiding the bulk bins at my health food store: keeping pumpkin seeds and corn nuts for snacks. My metabol ...
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Cyrulis, Do you know the difference between taking the dormant probiotics in a product like Primal Defense, and taking a probiotic with billions of living cells? What are the pros and cons of each?   [End]
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I’ve heard several testimonies from people who got sick using Primal Defense. Be careful with that.   [End]
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sugar, wheat, dairy and processed foods. Anyone effectively eliminated those from their diet? what was your experience?   [End]
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