Jordana
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So they found dividing candida in my gut finally - but absolutely no parasites.
I really don't want to add any more strong drugs to what I'm cooking here. Is there a dependable alternative to diflucan? Something that might treat systemic forms too?
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WPinVA
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Candicid Forte - Orthomolecular
Microbinate - Researched Nutritionals
VSL#3
I have been taking these three and to my surprise, my stool test revealed NO candida.
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Jordana
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Thanks WP!
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Brussels
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I use only Sanum nosodes. They do help me (not 100% of times, but many times). Totally homeopathic. No chemicals at all.
Anything that is other than that (like strong herbal killers, for example) will feel awful for me, as though I'm reinforcing the candida, instead of weakening it.
Bad candida and good candida are the same beings, biologically (Enderlein theory).
How to make them shift back to being friendly, that is what nosodes do.
If you attack it with big guns (be it rife, chemical, herbal killers), it will fight back, in my experience. It's been almost 3 decades of candida coming and going, for me.
I think the best is to try to change the milieu, to reinforce the immune system, clean the gut, provide probiotics, sometimes change the pH, I mean, like 'attacking' candida sideways, not frontally.
A frontal attack means = starving the candida (impossible task, as it can eat virtually anything) + killers + probiotics. I swear that candida hates frontal attacks.
I fare much better when I attack it not frontally, but sideways, if you can understand what I mean.
At this moment, my candida produces no symptoms.
But it will come back in winter, as it has been coming back in the last 30 years. Fortunately, every year, the active infection is lasting less and less time active.
I guess, in my case, candida is totally linked to heavy metals. There is a direct relation between chelation and activating candida. When too many heavy metals go loose, I will almost certainly have some active infection somewhere, and it ends up to be a candida or fungal infection, that has been reactivated.
In case you already tried most probiotics and it still comes back, I think heavy metals are one thing to look into.
I wish you can control your candida faster than I have. Like with lyme, it's a marathon treatment, not a sprinter type of treatment that will make it fully dormant (or dormant for longer).
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Jordana
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Thanks Brussels .
I really appreciate your insight into these things and it's nice of you to come back to help.
Minocycline actually kills candida - and I probably have it because my immune system is wrecked, not because of abx.
I was using propolis but I got allergic to it and had to stop.
Probotics and a no sugar diet seem like a good start.
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Keebler
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- A very specific brand of Olive Leaf extract (or a brand that uses the same methods of growing, harvesting, processing) - Seagate. Detail:
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I have been fighting candida for years and have it under control as long as I don't eat sugar or grains except very occasionally.
The candida diet works and is a good start otherwise too strong an attack from the start causes a candida herx. It's very much like the Lyme diet actually. You could do the diet for a couple of weeks and then introduce supplements.
Candida is nasty and can make people really unwell with symptoms a lot like lyme. I was really sick from it for a while - both mental and physical symptoms - and feel so much better now, clear thinking and with energy. Candida puts off something like 78 different toxins during it's life cycle, which is a lot for our bodies to detoxify every day.
The only supplements I used to fight it were coconut oil and organic black seed oil capsules - which you can get online. The black seed oil dessimetaes the candida cell. It has many health benefits and is one of the healthiest substances you can put in your body.
But -- black seed oil is a powerful antimicrobial, antiparasitic, and much more -- not sure how it would affect the lyme. It may cause a herx (I don't have lyme and I'm on this board as my daughter is being treated right now).
Kefir is excellent for treating candida. I don't know if you have the energy to do it but home made kefir is much better than store bought. If you're not eating dairy then water kefir is just as good. In my opinion these are far better than probiotic capsules.
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bluelyme
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Fire tree bark...i am curious about the products wpinva mentioned
i am trying byronwhite a fg what about that critter you found a while back?
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may I ask how they found dividing candida in your gut(what tests to diagnose)?
Garlic I believe crosses the brain barrier and you can certainly smell that it makes it to your skin.
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