Hang in there now that you know you need help it will come.

Sounds like you are ready to take some positive steps and diet should be step #1. Eliminate sugar! Watch your carbs. Eliminate dairy. Eliminate alcohol and carbonated beverages. Drink lots of clean water. Eat lots of fresh greens.

Do this for a week and then see how you feel. Take one step at a time. Now while you gain control of your diet read this site extensively.

It takes time. The most important thing is just getting started by making the positive committment you are going to be better.

If you want a doctor, I know there is one in Sydney, but I can't remember his name. I'm from Melbourne. I was given his name from the YeastConnection web site, if you contact the administrators they gave me a list of doctors who treat yeast in Australia. My husband spoke to him to get a name of a doctor in Melbourne, and he sounded as if he uses metagenics which are natural not meds. Anyway maybe you should do that, if you want to go the doctors route. I think healthy diet, supplements etc, are just as good but sometimes it helps to have a doctor spur you on so to speak.

good luck
Capers

Read up on all the cleansing options available at this site. Liver flushes, colon cleanses, kidney cleanses. these may do wonders for you as they have for me. eliminate chemicals and processed food from your life. for a simple overview of many good things you can do for yourself, check out "Key to Health and Rejuvenation" by Andreas Moritz (who has a forum here) you can download the book from www.authorhouse.com. its well worth it.

the Liver Flushes would probably be a huge help to you.

johng

Lucinda,

Do not give up hope. I am 38 years old and have had all of the symptoms you mention. I still have the irritable bowel syndrome a bit and the floaters but everything else has improved drastically over the past year and a half.

My troubles began with diarrhea and elevated liver enzymes. 5X what they should have been. I have done the candida diet, still do for that matter. Have tried some of the anti-fungals recommended for candida. Mostly though reading up as a couple of the previous posts mention under the Ask Shelley forum will help you to learn about how to eat right and support your digestive system. Under the Ask Andreas you can learn a lot about this as well in addition to cleansing your liver and your colon.

Overall I would say that the liver and colon cleansing has been the most helpful to me in regaining my health.

I had some moments where I was close to giving up but I have 3 young kids who need me so I just kept on reading and learning how to heal my body. You can do it too and you have come to the very best place to learn what needs to be done.

All the best to you on your journey of healing.

Lisa

Lucindah, I had most of those symptoms, except the asthma, I only have exercise-induced asthma. I don't have a practitioner either, I'm treating myself. I can tell I'm getting better after 3 months of self-treatment -- but my symptoms definitely got worse when I first started treating for candida. That was actually so hopeful -- everything that got worse, I could tell for sure was from candida. (Some things didn't get worse at first and were also the candida, too, isn't so clear cut.)
You know, you might feel like giving up, but it sounds to me like you've just found what you need to start healing... I never could heal my problems til I saw what the trouble was clearly. There is so much hope in having a place to start. Good luck and hang around here, people here have a lot of good ideas. Take care, Maia