Good question! How do I know it isn't yeast die-off? Yeast die-off certainly causes anxiety for me. It also causes insomnia, which is very bad right now.

Hmm. It's funny. Depression causes me to think negatively, but I have gotten used to the tricks it plays on my mind, and make allowances. Anxiety causes me to panic. This is a whole new experience for me and maybe it has influenced my thinking more than I'm aware. Maybe the combination of Depression and anxiety has caused me to fall into the trap of catastrophizing. I have seen it in others, some of you guys in fact, when suffering die-off induced negative thinking. When I'm suffering die-off I make allowances for negative thinking, and don't trust my fears. However in this case I had not taken any new antifungal or upped dosage, so was not anticipating die-off. I'm rambling...

In a nutshell, it is possible what I am experiencing is yeast die-off from the extra bacteria in my small bowel. That I get terrible die-off symptoms from most lactic acid probiotics probably supports this hypothesis.

Thanks aijian ..... I think. I hope this isn't false hope. Maybe I should just sit quiet and tolerate it for another week or two. My anxiety is telling me I need to do something...

I'm going to stop the vitamin C. It's not reliably addressing my anxiety or sleep. I'm also not convinced it's doing anything good for my bowel. I think I'll go back to taking exactly what I was taking before this crisis, and relax, exercise, long walks and sauna. Endure the pain - the story of my life these days. I need to convince myself everything is on track, even though my anxiety is telling me I've stuffed myself up bigtime.

It is times like this when it is handy to have a doctor to reassure us that everything is okay. Family and good friends can also provide great support. Unfortunately I'm doing this pretty much by myself. Thanks again aijian. It may or may not be yeast die-off, but I'm sure now that I have been prematurely assuming the worst, which may not be the case.

The more I think about it, the more I think it might be die-off. Whenever I start a new antifungal or probiotic, one of the things I look for is die-off. If I don't get much, I assume it's not doing much. So why would it be any different with a stool probiotic? In fact, after a couple of days of rapid growth, there might be as many as 50 trillion new bacteria! This is WAY more bacteria than any commercial probiotic. So, if they are to do what is expected of them, and produce Candida killing toxins, then I must expect massive die-off. And you would expect it to go on for several weeks wouldn't you? I don't know of any antifungal that can clear up chronic candidiasis in any less time.

I'm almost believing this scenario. I really want to. I am so sick of being unwell.