I'll try to make this as short as possible, though it has basically been a long battle I continue to lose. BTW - my story still ended up being very long - I apologize. :( Please don't let that discourage you from reading. I really need any help I can get. I feel hopeless. Please...
I remember like it was yesterday, at 12 years of age, I had my first panic attack. I remember what I had for dinner that night, KFC, which was actually considered a treat to me. A full meal. I grew up poor and was fed processed food all of my life. I would scrounge up money and walk to the store just to buy a bag of chips, or a microwaved meal. Anyway, the panic attacks continued and I felt very weak, out of breath, depressed. I was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder on top of depression. I saw a psychologist, and I remember having nothing to talk about. Because fortunately, I've never had any tragic events happen to me that would give me a mental disorder in the first place. But I had one. And even the psychologist was puzzled as to why. I remember he kept on asking if I've ever been hit, touched the wrong way, etc. Nope. Although poor, I grew up with a very loving family. He asked if my twin brother's disorder (autism - which has grown worse with age and his weight gain - and I now have made a connection with that to Candida) bothered me. Nope. He was like a normal person in my eyes.
Not long after I was diagnosed with anxiety and depression, at the age of 13, I developed SEVERE acne. My face was covered in huge, hard, painful pimples. I had not ONE spot of healthy skin on my face. I have a picture that I'm looking at right now, and I'm not exaggerating. I also had chest acne, along with back acne.
I was prescribed Tazorac (a retinoid derived from Vitamin A) by my pediatrician, and I overused it. My face was red, burning, and peeling off in sheets. I had to carry a cold washcloth with me everywhere I went. This continued on for about a few months, as my parents thought it was a normal side effect from the retinoid, and nobody knew I was overusing it. Well, my face soon became bright and clear. It looked and felt like a baby's bottom. My body acne also cleared up.
The tube ran out and my insurance didn't cover it well, so my parents refused to buy it again. They said I'd grow out of the acne soon.
My face exploded again.
I tried many other retinoids to no avail. I wanted badly to go on Accutane, but my dermatologist didn't think it was a good idea. Instead he put me on a course of antibiotics. After another. After another. And another. I took antibiotics off and on until the age of 18. That's 5, almost 6 years. I stopped with an antibiotic called Ampicillin that I used nonstop for 2 years. I was constantly getting urinary tract infections. Actually, at any given point when I didn't want to go to school, I would just say "I burn down there", even when I didn't. My parents would then take me to the doctor and I ALWAYS had a UTI. It never failed. And I would be given more antibiotics to "cure" the problem. I never felt the UTI symptoms, that burning that comes along with it, so I never thought it was a big deal. I continued with Ampicillin, 500mg every night, for 2 years. All I knew was that it kept my face clear.
Then I had a downfall. I started noticing SCARS on my face, they would come out of nowhere. Not the red ones, the indented ones (holes). It would start off as me feeling a sting or itch first, then I would look in the mirror at the spot, and I would have a newly formed indented scar. It was traumatizing. I went to several different doctors and dermatologists that wouldn't believe me. "You can't get a scar in a place you have no acne." "You probably just didn't notice it before." "Let me sell you this $2,000+ laser to get rid of those." Yeah right. My face is covered in scars now. It's very depressing. Over the past 2 years (I'm 20 now), I've learned to live with them. And they stopped appearing 6 months after I finally stopped taking antibiotics. I also had to start taking allergy pills at the same time, because I suddenly developed bad allergies.
But after stopping the antibiotics, my acne slowly but surely crept up on me again. These left even more scars - when the acne itself never used to. I figured it was because my body couldn't fight off the infections within the zit without the antibiotics that it got used to. I didn't know what to do. I finally decided to see a gynecologist to check my hormones along with other stuff. Surprisingly, EVERYTHING was normal. I went to the doctor and they ran blood tests. NORMAL and "healthy". So I had good hygiene, supposedly good health, my hormones were balanced. What could be the cause of my acne?! I was told MANY times that diet had no effect on acne.
Bullsh*t. I looked into "natural cures" for acne - which I should've done in the first place - but I was little, and I believed in doctors. In the beginning of this year, I finally changed my diet. I cut out all dairy first, I noticed I stopped getting zits unless on my period. I cut out sugar, less zits on my period. I added in more vegetables. I had a "green smoothie" every morning. I ate something green before every meal. I also ate from lightest to heaviest - vegetables, any starchy vegetables, grains, legumes, then meat. I didn't drink anything 20 minutes before and 20 minutes after a meal. And I only drank water. If I had a big meal, I would add lemon to the water. I added in a good quality probiotic every morning, since someone finally mentioned to me that antibiotics kill off your good bacteria. I also got more Vitamin D by being in the sun at least 15 minutes per day. I exercised for at least 20 minutes every day or every other day. I took Sea Salt /baking soda baths to help "detoxify" my skin. Long and behold, I started only getting 1-3 zits on my period, compared to the 20 I used to get before. AND!!! They healed nicely, leaving a little to no scar. Big improvement. Even with all the scarring I already had, my skin had this glow to it. I had more energy. My muffin top disappeared. I cut my anxiety pill to only .5mg, once a day. My sex drive kicked back up. My tongue was almost completely pink. I didn't need my allergy pills as much. I felt something I hadn't felt in awhile... peace.
FINALLY, I thought to myself, the war is over and now I can just focus on healing these scars (with a dermaroller, peels, etc).
Then I had a stressful event happen (August of this year). I just couldn't catch a break! My boyfriend and I broke up, ending our 5 years together. My acne flared up with vengeance with my stress, and this time, they weren't healing. :( My skin eventually lost its glow. I couldn't eat, and when I did, it would be something small. No more nice green vegetables prepared. I didn't have the taste for them, or anything, actually.
I was depressed. I lost the first love of my life. I felt weak, probably due to the lack of eating. My face was a mess once again. I didn't want to live.
I didn't know who to turn to with all of this, so I went to my family doctor. We got to talking, he talked to me for 2 hours. He prescribed me the retinoid Differin for my acne, since I showed a lot of concern about it. He told me the topical would help them heal. Then, me being the MOST STUPID PERSON ON EARTH, I asked for a prescription of antibiotics. I told him I wanted the safest one possible, and for short-term. I wanted them because I knew Differin could give a horrible initial breakout, and I couldn't handle anymore indented scarring. I thought to myself, my spontanous scarring is over with, and antibiotics couldn't have given me scars anyway. He prescribed me Minocycline.
I felt dizzy and short of breath a little while after every dose, but I thought it was just because my body needed some time to get used to it. Fast forward a week on it, and my chest was covered in little red dots - some inflamed, some filled with pus - but all very little red dots. I immediately stopped the antibiotics, but things only got worse. I noticed it would flare up even more when I was feeling stressed or hot. It crept up from under my breasts, in-between and around them, up to my shoulders. Then up to my neck, spread along the top of my back, and a little on my face. I noticed my tongue was and still is covered with a white coat, being worse in the back of my tongue, which look like spores.
And my face started getting those random scars again. :'(
I was frantic. I cried, and I cried. And I cried some more. My anxiety got worse. I had pulse rates up to 160 per minute (my mom has a vitals' machine) every time I woke up, and I would have diarrhea early in the day. This time I really couldn't eat. I was losing weight, and FAST. I lost 5 lbs within 2 weeks.
I wanted to die. I didn't care about anything or anyone anymore. I just wanted out of my body.
My mom got my doctor to send me to a psychiatric facility. She also told the facility that I wouldn't eat anything and I was losing weight. They put me in an anorexic program. I went along with it, thinking it'd help me gain my weight back. Wrong again.
In the program, I had to eat 1 fruit, 1 dairy (which I was completely avoiding!), 1 fat (not healthy neither, a thing of butter or peanut butter!), 1 vegetable, 1 starch (which was usually a bad one), and 1 protein at every meal. 3 meals per day. Snacks that contained sugar in-between the meals. And I couldn't leave not one grain of rice on my plate.
While in this hospital, I noticed a new symptom going on with my skin. I started getting random scratches on the bottom of my back, my arms, and my hands. Sometimes they showed up already healed (with a scab on it)! I thought I was going crazy, after all, I was stuck in a metal facility for a couple of weeks.
They upped the mg's on my anxiety pill since my anxiety was out of control. But now I'm completely dependent on them. I got out of the program the middle of last month (October). I haven't been the same since.
The beginning of this month is when I started reading into Candida. I have been following the diet for about 3 weeks now, taking probiotics, and sometimes taking virgin coconut oil on a snack. I tried adding in raw onions a couple of weeks ago, as I've read it helps with Candida, but I experienced too bad of die-off symptoms. My back exploded into hard zits, I couldn't stop sneezing, my nose kept running, the rash on my chest flared up again, I had horrible gas. So I stopped the raw onion thing. But I feel horrible. I'm underweight (5'6 and 115 lbs - I was 135 at the beginning of this year). I have stretch marks all over my breasts, butt, thighs, and even on my lower back, that weren't there before. My scalp is itchy, my hair is thinning. I'm getting random, hard zits on my back that leave scars, and sometimes on my neck or chest. The zits on my face just won't heal, and I'm pretty sure they're going to leave behind more indented scars. The scratches are still appearing, only more frequently, and they leave behind thin white scars. My body will be full of scars if I don't get rid of whatever is happening to me, and soon. :( Whenever I have an itch on my body and scratch it, it gets red and swells up badly for a few hours. It never used to do that. The bottoms of my feet are peeling - looks but doesn't feel like Athlete's foot. My once long, beautiful nails are short and chipping. I feel nauseous most of the day. Sometimes when standing, I feel like I'm going to faint. My anxiety gets bad. I can't think. I feel weak. I feel depressed.
I feel like giving up on life.
I just don't know what to do with myself, and I don't even know exactly what I'm asking from you guys. I guess I just want some advice, encouragement, hope, and an idea of what the heck is actually going on with me. Especially with the random scars and scratches. And maybe some tips on how to put back on some weight. What anti-fungal/herbs should I take, if any? Since I'm already experiencing bad "die-off" with changing my diet. I need some guidance, badly. Please, please help me. I would truly appreciate any feedback.
Easy.!
1- You have to stop taking antibiotics at least they be extremely necessary.
2- You have to learn that with the story of taking antibiotics for so long, you probably have a severe candida overgrowth (CRC)
3- You need to chose a program to detox, fight candida, and recover the immune function as soon as you can.
4- It takes time, discipline, and hard work to see results.
5- There isn't an easy solution one time this happen, so calm down because you have a long journey ahead.
6- There is hope but it is all to you.
Hope this help !
Jorge.
I read your whole message. I felt so sad for you. I think you have a great chance of recovery, though.
I will share my thoughts, one after the next, that I had while reading.
Raw onions are very harsh; maybe they are hurting you and what you feel isn't "die-off" but it is directly from the irritation of eating raw onions.
Proper food combining isn't exactly lightest to heaviest - for example, protiens go before carbohydrates. Also, it's better not to eat proteins and carbohydrates in the same meal. My favorite set of rules is outlined in my favorite book, Healing With Whole Foods by Paul Pitchford. It changed my life completely. Also, it is important to avoid drinking liquids for hours after a meal - way longer than 20 minutes. 20 minutes is plenty enough time to wait BEFORE a meal, though.
Another thought I had is I can't believe how stupid the anorexic programs are. I was in one when I was 14, and it was the same. It's so destructive! When the hell are they gonna GET A CLUE?
I have dent-scars in my face too, but my story's a little different from yours. I WAS put on Accutane, which I believe caused all of the scarring. It impedes the skin's healing abilities while creating a humungous initial flare-up. That's when I got all these scars. They seem to get SLIGHTLY less pronounced as the years go by, but they are still horrible. It leads me to consider abandoning my identity as a "beautiful woman" and just trying to become a respected intellectual instead, or a dedicated meditator, or just something else, that doesn't involve looking good... it's probably healthier, spiritually, emotionally, etc.
Anyhow, I really recommend that book! It helped me more than any other thing has helped me. It taught me to recognize patterns in my symptoms and how to eat to feel A LOT BETTER.
It sounds like your diet with all the greens was doing you a lot of good.
You're probably right about the raw onions, I should have tried raw garlic instead, I read about the garlic a lot more. It's just that I do like the taste of onions, haha.
The 'lightest to heaviest' I described was mentioned in the book 'The Beauty Detox Solution' by Kimberly Snyder. She believes in Candida, but her diet is different from the typical anti-Candida diet. This diet is what helped me the first time around, when I didn't even know anything about Candida. But it's not helping me this time around. :(
Which is why I think I will pick up the book you've suggested. Thank you so much! :) I've also heard a lot about the 'Body Ecology Diet' book though, on this site, so I'll just have to look into which one I should read first.
Thanks for your reply! Raw garlic is also extremely irritating. What is probably best for you is a gentle, moderate diet comprised mostly of whole grains boiled in a pot (like brown rice, sweet brown rice, millet, quinoa, etc. depending on your specific conditions) and cooked and or raw greens, also including some other vegetables, possibly legumes, possibly animal products. It may be okay to eat a little raw garlic with a meal, but be very cautious! I wouldn't think you should eat any.
I thought I should write you again to point out that BOTH bladder infections AND acne are symptomatic of the influence of "damp heat" in Chinese medicine. They indicate damp heat in 2 different body systems. Maybe this is a clue for you. Garlic is a very warming food, though, and it sounds like you have heat issues, so I'd stay away, away, away from garlic! This is in terms of Chinese medicine. Lemons, on the other hand, are very cooling, and are also blood purifying and liver purifying.
I've been eating germinated brown rice, small beans, lentils, etc. for the past few weeks - all prepared in an electric rice cooker. It's incredibly easy to prepare and very nourishing - especially on a cold, wet day.
I do know now to never take an antibiotic ever again, unless absolutely necessary. So do you think everything I explained is a result from Candida overgrowth, and not some sort of parasites as well? Can only Candida create all the problems with my skin I explained? It just doesn't seem possible. I don't know, though. I'm new at this. Thank you for your reply, but this isn't going to be easy, at all!
Well, it's clear that you've been through a lot in the past few years. It can feel like a terrible struggle sometimes, but hang in there!
As dvjorge notes below, it's important to remain calm, and appreciate that healing will take time. Be patient, but don't worry - you're still very young, and you have the rest of the life ahead of you to look forward to! ;)
I'm not terribly comfortable giving advice to others, especially when my own health isn't terrible good. However, it sounds like you made considerable progress when eating healthily, so I would suggest trying to get back to whatever you were doing previously before. Eat fresh, whole foods as often as possible, trying to get a good balance.
Incidentally, I was also prescribed Minomycin, which I continued to take for over a year. My tongue is also coated in white mucus (especially in the morning), which traditional medicines associate with digestion and stomach-related issues.
I know it's easy for me to say so, however I'm confident that you will eventually get to the bottom of your health challenges, learning a great deal along the way, and perhaps one day go on to help others facing similar struggles.
Thank you for your words of reassurance and hope. It really means a lot to me, especially in this time of need. Same goes to anyone else that helps me along this post. Your time is yours and you could spend it however you want, so thanks for spending some of your time on me. ;)
I just wanted to give you some encouragement. I am a 21 year old male and I have had all of the problems with candida, digestion, neurological, psychological, emotional (depression, OCD, suicidal thoughts, brain fog, irritability) that you can imagine. Interestingly enough, I now tie most if not all of it to my candida! 3 years ago when I first started college my candida became fully systemic and I developed really bad leaky gut. I have lost probably 12-15 pounds through all of this. My skin was soo bad where it would hurt for me to look in the mirror. I would get panic and anxiety attacks, which connected to my OCD, made me want to seriously take my own life. Throughout high school I would deal with these issues periodically, but they were very minimal compared to what I developed in college. Freshman year of college I went to see a gastroenterologist and ofcourse I was perscriped antibiotics for my digestive issues. As soon as I took those my candida went bazurk!! My skin was covered in acne and I had ringworm all over my arms. I would react to everything I ate. Was only able to tolerate vegetables and meat, which left me with zero energy. Slowly but surely I figured out that candida was my problem but I made huge mistakes throughout my treatment program. I believed in the miracle cures of threelac and massive doses of probiotics and antifungals without diet being necessary. This was all a waste of my time, patience, and money. I was losing the best years of my life. Finally last year I decided to take this seriously. I went on a zero sugar, vegetable and meat (chicken, turkey, fish, lamb, beef etc.) diet for six weeks. Then I slowly introduced digestive enzymes, probiotics, antifungals and was getting better. Then I felt as if I had hit a wall. I wasn't getting any better. And the die off was just killing me. I got thinning hair and eventually it started to fall out in bunches. My skin was super dry and also full of scars. It made me feel disgusting. As soon as I would get off the diet everything would return. I had very bad inflammation in my intestines this I was sure of, and a colonoscopy soon proved it. Another gastroenterologist diagnosed me with "crohns" and did not hesistate to give me immunosuppressing medication. Thank goodness at that time I was already super suspicious of doctors and their foolish treatments I refused to take the medication. How can I have an autoimmune intestinal disorder when I have all of these candida symptoms to go along with it?!! So I continued to search. I went to take a 400 dollar IGG food allergy/sensitivity test. I found out that I had insane allergies to eggs and dairy. I cut out eggs from my diet(I had already stopped eating dairy before), but I saw no major improvement because the candida was still releasing its byproducts which were damaging my system. Low and behold it was 6 months on this strict diet and I was only getting worse. Finally, I decided to look into heavy metal poisoning, and found a doctor to give me IV DMPS. Then months on this treatment and cutler's protocol, I felt that I could finally tolerate the diet and antifungals, with minimal die off. Right now I am literally taking every antifungal you can imagine at the same time and I feel like the yeast is giving up and dying. I feel less and less die off as the days go by. Everything that has damaged me in the past is slowly healing and clearing up. My skin is healing, my mind is healing, I can think clearer, sleep better, neurological twitching is going away. Mood is better, no longer thinking about having no future and dying, but am now super motivated to what my life has in store for me. I won't say that I'm cured but I am making great progress! Time will tell for me.
I have linked virtually all of my problems to candida and the byproducts that it releases. This is super damaging to one's system. When the candida gets a stronghold on your system, it is relentless and will grow super fast. The main thing you need to know is that there is a reason that the opportunistic candida is there in the first place. It is because your immune system just cannot take care of it on its own anymore. As soon as the immune system is suppressed in any way it can overgrow slightly, but it certainly takes a lot to damage the immune system to develop systemic candida or Candida Related Complex (CRC). For me personally, I attribute it to chronic heavy metal poisoning (particularly mercury and lead). I feel that I have had this most of my life, since I was a young child. I remember having panic attacks every single day in the third grade where I would cry and would have to get picked up by my grandfather from school. I also remember having long dental procedures done on me during this time which involved Amalgam fillings. I have had candida problems my whole life but they were very minimal. My immune system was able to handle it. But as soon as I hit high school and college and the stress that comes with it, my immune system could not contain it anymore. It was free to grow as much as it wants. And the icing on the cake was the antibiotics that I took, which made it systemic. The immune system eventually becomes tolerant to the yeast and does not kill it, because it has grown so much. You have to minimize the yeast as much as possible and build up your immune system, while detoxing from the candida byproducts and die off. If you don't detox from the die off and byproducts, it will take longer than needed, because there is already such stress on the body. You have to be easy on the adrenals and get plenty of sleep so that your body has a chance to recover. Do saunas, take lots of fiber to flush out the toxins. The human body is an amazing regenerating machine. When you take out what's wrong, it has an amazing ability to heal. When your immune system is recovered and yeast is minimized, the candida will slowly leave. You will be scared of how good you will feel as I was scared. Everyday is new territory for me. I didn't know healthy people feel this good. Stay on the diet and kill the candida with antifungals and detox from the die off. This will take time and patience. I realized that you have just figured that candida can be a problem for you, so maybe you will be cured from that alone. But if not, you have to look into what caused your immune system to let such an overgrowth to occur. I definetely suggest looking into heavy metals. Good luck!
Wow, you sound a lot like me in the beginning of your reply. The skin, panic attacks, OCD-ish, suicidal thoughts, when you changed your diet you had no energy etc. Then with your zero sugar, vegetable and meat diet, you had your massive die-off, thinning hair, dry skin, scars. Story of my sad life! I'm on that zero sugar etc diet right now, and I feel HORRIBLE. Worse than ever.
I'm definitely asking my doctor if he could give me a food allergy/sensitivity's test. Hopefully it won't be that expensive for me with my insurance (which I'm actually about to lose in a month due to losing job).
Unfortunately, I don't think I could talk a doctor into giving me IV DMPS. It scares me to even think about getting that done, especially with the possible side effects I've read. Is there an easier way? I honestly don't even think I have heavy metal poisoning, but heck, what do I really know? Besides that my health is deteriorating and doctors don't know why.
But (and I'm copying & pasting this from a reply of mine on another thread) I would like for someone to explain to me as to how someone could get heavy metal poisoning. I have had a few people tell me that this may be the reason for my symptoms but just don't understand how. My mother does have silver fillings, but she didn't get them until after I was born and grown. I have fillings, but not silver ones. I was born out in the country with fresh air. I live in the city now though, unfortunately. I don't know how to check if the apartment I've grown up in had lead paint/piping, or even if the house I live in now does. Any advice on that? And I've never ate a whole fish (if that's how you get mercury poisoning) in my life, besides fish sticks, if that even counts as fish. I hate the taste of fish.
So your basic advice is to minimize the yeast as much as possible (through diet, right? And what kind of antifungal do you suggest I start off with, and when should I add it in?), build up my immune system (how?), and detox from the die-off (through saunas and fiber, right? But I have no access to a sauna with no money. I know I'm experiencing some die-off now with my diet, but I don't know how to help all the toxins push out!)
I truly appreciate your reply. I think I've gotten the most relief out of it, which I need right now! But I do appreciate all the other replies I've gotten, as well.
There are a number of metals and a number of sources of them too. It can be really hard to pin all the possibilities down. Just when I think I know, I read about a new one, like mercury in high fructose corn syrup or arsenic in orange juice. It amazes me just how much we poison ourselves with these things.
I suggest that you find lists of frequently described symptoms of heavy metal toxicity (a google search would do it) and compare them to what you've had and decide if it makes sense in your case. From what you've described, it seems like a real possibility.
Keep in mind that the symptoms vary a lot from person to person, so people generally don't have all of the symptoms on the lists.
The crazy symptoms that you feel from doing the diet can be extremely discouraging for someone who is trying to find an answer. Because you feel like its a never ending cycle. No diet and fungus overgrows, then do diet and gets a little better until you have absolutely no energy and fungal symptoms, then again until you think your body is just confused and dysfunctional. In my opinion, the candida is excellent in tricking your body psychology and physiology. You think you need something but it is really your candida that needs it. That explains the intense sugar cravings that one can get. Amazingly enough though your body can live without the carbs, because it can burn fat and use protein as a source of fuel for energy. That is why a zero carb diet is essential to beat this thing. It will be hard in this beginning because the candida is doing everything it can to grow and get the glucose it needs for growth. But when you overtime have reduced the candida enough, the no sugar diet is going to be very easy.
Also, I have gone through that whole scenario of seeing a famiily doctor, and then just being told I am crazy and just have stress. Your doctor most likely has no clue about what a true food allergy/sensitivity test is. You have to find a special testing place for this. It will be expensive, but it is very important because it will take a load off the immune system for it to recover. I live in New York and went to Immunohealth in Manhatten. I dunno where you live but look up http://www.immunohealth.com/
and maybe you'll find a location.
Also, your Doctor will absolutely not give you DMPS injections because he won't know what they even are, and most doctors are not educated in the subject of heavy metal toxicity, they'll just send you to the emergency room. You need to also visit a specialist. I went to a Holistic M.D. which practices in Long Island. I also thought there's no way I have heavy metal poisoning. But after 6 months of seeing no results and getting worse on the diet, I though I have nothing to lose and everything to gain from getting myself checked. I did the DMPS challenge test and low and behold my mercury levels were 4 times the normal amount and my lead levels were twice the normal. I don't know how accurate that test was but I know that the treatment for it helped! You have nothing to lose when you're already so sick. Personally for me the DMPS IV helped the most, I experimented with cutler's protocol for 3 months, but found greatest relief from DMPS IV. When I see people with a mouth full of fillings and amazingly good health it also deters me if mercury poisoning can really be a problem for people. But I realized that everyone is different with different genetics. Some people are more sensitive, and their immune systems can be disrupted from the smallest of disturbances. I know I am very sensitive. There are a bunch of theories that involve autism with heavy metals, saying that Autistic people are more susceptible to heavy metal problems. Seeing that your brother is autistic, you share a gene pool with him and might be more susceptible too. Save yourself some time and get yourself checked, or just treated.
There's a lot of fiber in veggies, but you should get a fiber supplement in the beginning stages for sure. I have a portable sauna at home, but maybe you can use one at a local gym. Or if that seems like it's too much, you can just do a steam shower. Make sure your lymph is moving, try to exercise a little bit (I know it's hard with no energy), or just do jumping exercises.
I suggest you start with pure organic coconut oil. I made the mistake of going with crazy doses of Grapefruit seed extract and oregano oil in the beginning. But Coconut Oil will be much safer and beneficial to your body, and it will give you energy. Take probiotics too. Custom Probiotics really seems to be helping me. Space them atleast 2 hours from the antifungals. Drink lots of water!
If you want message me your email address. I will then send you a pdf file which has helped me.
I know this can be so tough for you emotionally. Especially when this is not a recognized disease! No one knows about it. Everyone just looks at you like you're crazy. After a while with this, I actually convinced myself that I am just an inferior human being, and I deserve to be suffering like this. I thought that my whole life I am just going to be covering up my symptoms to people so they don't think I'm crazy. My mom even admitted to me yesterday that she doesn't believe that I will ever get better with my routine. She basically said that I am a hypochondriac who blames everything on candida and I need to listen to "professional" advice. A year ago I would snap at her and curse her out for being so not understanding, but I am past that. I eventually just laughed at her and told her that when I'm cured she is going to feel soooo stupid! This whole process is emotionally draining especially when no one has a clue what you're going through. But let this just feed your pride and turn you into a tougher person. I have become a tough son of a bitch.
Seems like the mercury and heavy metals they put in the vaccines interferes with brain development. The perservatives/other chemicals they put in vaccines intereferes with the gut. A one-two punch for health disorders.
Sillylily, You are young and beutiful, if that your avatar. keep up the fight and dont give up. One thing that greatly helped me was finding out exactly what i was dealing with so i no how to kill it. Have you looked into Metametrix testing. Look at my past posts, on them i even have my test results.
No sugar and probiotics is helping me, but it is slow. I have lost alot of weight and was on the thin side already.
keep up the fight, eating good and taking antifungals wont kill you, but perscription antibiotics will.
Oh one more thing. The doc put me on Diflucan, which was the first antifungal i took that actually ever made a difference.
I agree with nyckid about looking into heavy metal toxicity. I suggest the possibility that your mother may have a metals problem too. The reason I suspect that is because of your autistic brother. It's controversial but there are many who believe that there is a link between metals and autism. You and your brother may have received a heavy dose of metals through the placenta while you were still in the womb (or from mother's milk afterward if you were breast fed). There may be other sources which you have been exposed to as well. I don't know if you have silver fillings, but they would be a likely suspect for mercury toxicity.
Absolutely, Eric. I thought the same thing when I read her post. It is probably mercury toxicity that passed from her mother. Autism is highly linked to mercury.
Jorge
Thanks, Eric & Jorge. Please read the end of my reply to Nyckid, where it starts off as "But (and I'm copying & pasting this from a reply of mine on another thread) I would like for someone to explain to me as to how someone could get heavy metal poisoning..."
Hi Lily,
After 30 years of struggling with all sorts of issues, some similar to yours, lots of antibiotics and terrible anxiety and trying ALL sorts of different herbs, diets and meds I've finally learned the secret - you have to RESET your gut flora. I'm no doctor, but my best advise is to research GAPS - it stands for Gut and Psychology Syndrome - look up Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride, she's a neurologist and Dr. of Nutrition. I heard her speak at a Westin Price Conference (look them up too) her program is changing my life. It's mostly about an elimination diet and very slowly adding foods back in. This would also apply to your brothers autism.
What she discusses about stomach health and illness is astounding. YOU can do this diet - you drink a LOT of broth. For me, anxiety gone, headaches gone, knee pain gone, shoulder pain gone. You don't have to buy the book you can learn all about it on her website or via a small book called GAPS Guide. Oh, your question about heavy metals and how we get too much in our system, vaccinations, metal fillings, many meds as they have preservatives that contain mercury. This diet will address that issue as well as your candida and possibly parasite issues.
You are so fortunate to be working on this now, being as young as you are. Take your time and learn all you can before you do anything else.
Awwww hun I am so sorry ((hugs)) I am not sure I have anything to constructive to add besides all the excellent advice already presented here by the people who are WAY more knowledgable about this then me but I have a few thoughts... I am lucky even though I have candida it not even half as severe as you has described and I thought I had it bad! Most my symptoms though are not overly noticable its just mainly the fatigue/anxiety/depression I luckily do not have all the outwards signs of it like all your skin problems(although I do have keratosis pilaris which are little bumps on the skin but luckily those aren't overly noticable) but what I have is bad enough!
I also figure I have adrenal fatigue which often comes along with candida so that is also something to look into as well...Getting enough sleep and learning to manage your stress is very vital to getting rid of candida...I know when I am feeling tired and stressed it leads to mini anxiety/panic attacks which I have also had to put up with most my life...
I am not sure about parasites but I suggest you go ahead and do the cleanses anyway in fact do all the flushes/cleanses at least one...I am going to start them here shortly I have been a little short on funds or would have done them sooner... Colon Cleanses are good to start with to help get rid of the candida faster...
Some things I did not see mentioned so far that may be helpful...Your body is probably depleted of essential nutrients so I'd definetely add at least a multivitamin to whatever you are taking... I am not very knowledgable in that area so I'll let you do your own research into what other supplements you should be taking...Also you probably have digestive issues I have found eating ACTIVA yogurt which is rich in probiotics helps ALOT when it comes to digesting my food and fighting candida altough you mentioned you may have issues with dairy but it might be worth a shot...The better your digestive system is working the faster you get rid of the candida obviously so my advice would be to work on that for sure!
Antifungals I have taken(once again this is what worked for ME everyone is different and you need to experiment to see what works best for YOU) are as follows:
1) Raw onions and garlic
you said you had issues with these but for me they have worked great onions especially help me feel more clearheaded...garlic also works great although raw garlic is apt to give me a bit of a tummy ache...maybe take garlic supplements instead...I took garlic supplements off and on as a diet supplement for two years as well as Omega 3 before I even knew I had candida which may be one of the reasons my candida is not as severe as it could be...
2) Extra Virgin Coconut Oil
You mentioned you are taking this and I suggest to continue because it works pretty well...I had to quit because I really hate the taste/smell of coconut and it was starting to make me gag lol but it really is good for you!
3) Apple Cidar Vinegar
This has worked well for me I usually took a small spoonful(diluted in at least half a glass of water) morning and night before I eat and right before I got to bed as it seem to work best on an empty stomach...
4)Spices such as tumeric, cinnamon, cloves, cayenne pepper
These are cheap and easy to add to your meals...Tumeric and I believe cayenne pepper can also help if you have parasites...
5)Pau D' Arco
Currently taking this in capsule form it seems to be fairly effective!
The main thing taking one antifungal for to long can make the candida get used to it and become immune so its a good idea to switch them up a bit or even quit antifungals for a bit before starting up again with a different kind...Some say as often as every two weeks but I find mine stay pretty effective for up to a month or so then I usually take a week or two break and just take lots of probiotics before starting up again...
One more thing I think keeping a diary on what you are doing and how you are feeling is also a good idea...Write how you feel when you wake up and when you eat and after you take your probiotics and also any bowl movements so you can keep track of what works and how much improvement no matter how small which will help you remaion positive! It really sucks we have to deal with this but remember you are not alone and we are all rooting for you! Feel free to message me if you need to talk!
put on borax water after wards, apply mineral oil all over, the next day, apply apple cider venigar all over after you come home, and get it ready for another one bath. eat vegan. lots of carrots.fish cod oil, drink ACV is good idea, can be as a dressing, a little acv, a little pepper, a little yogurt, olive oil, very little salt, eat raw veggie with it.
put 1/8 borax in a litre of water, drink a cop one hour before bed, quickly swollow a cup of plain yogurt before bed, rince your mouse with borax water, put mineral oil on lips again, it might lost becasue of the wash. Zap them overnight.
If you're using antifungal, be sure to add medinitizole to it, it kills both parasites and fungus. no more antibiotics unless you'd die!
Chinese doctors use combination, south America doctors also use combinations, only us doctors only do the book thing, and never think, and the truth that human has mites is kept from public, so the doctors and pharmasuticals will earn tons.
This problem is a tiny problem in china, but a huge one here. America needs some change, the people should be taken good care of , not the money makers.
Now I know though borax works, it has more harm than benefit. But I have just this much immune booster, I can't share.
If you do detox with borax, please jsut one night thing, to make you feel better. it's toxic. I feel vomit, but not real vomit, many people have kidney pain from drinking too much of it. It also kills the vitamins in your body. it works because it's a mild poison that kills.
I'd highly recommend looking into cleansing your colon, kidneys and liver, in that order. I'm amazed no one mentioned this before me. With all your skin issues, I'd bet your liver is in dire need of cleansing, (Think Dr. Hulda Clark for liver cleansing).
Get the Book or FREE PDF file, Lessons from the Miracle Doctors", by Jon Barron. Possibly the single most important book I have ever read about my health.
If you do some research into Urine Therapy you can learn how to get your body to create it's own Antibodies.
Keep at it. Do everything you can to foster your enthusiasm for life. Watch comedians, sunsets, crazy dogs chasing their tails. Listen to music you love. Meditate. Smile. Love yourself. Love others.
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