Yeast Infection is not going away!!

Yes, yeast can show up in other places! I had a white tongue and horrible blisters in my throat. I faxed a picture to my LLMD and they prescribed Nysatin oral rinse. I had to swish it around and then swallow. It took a couple of weeks but it did clear up.

I know it is not a natural remedy, Monistat. I inside the box there are two medications. One for inside and one for the outside. I haven't had great success with the inside one, but the topical helps with the outside itching.

I hope you feel better soon, it is miserable.

I am sorry Sore Butt - but I just had to laugh at the irony of your profile name!  Is it possible that the reason you have a sore butt is from yeast overgrowth?  I don't know!  I don't want to get too personal..... 

I am just saying that for over 5 years, that was my main problem until I finally went to a nutritionist who diagnosed me with intestinal yeast overgrowth.  I rarely had a vaginal yeast infection.  The Gyn doctors and gastro doctors I kept complaining to about my butt pains only kept saying, "Well you don't have hemoroids.....  I don't know why you're in pain.  Maybe eat more fiber." 

Turns out yeast irritate the colon so bad that it causes the sphincter muscles to spasm, and that was my pain.  Thanks to diet and supplements, I am almost completely curred!  Well, I was almost cured until I started all these antibiotics for Lyme.

My LLMD was as concerned about the yeast overgrowth as much as the Lyme, so it is something to take seriously.   

You are describing exactly what I experienced - mucus and all.  When you have a vag. yeast infection, you get a lot of mucus discharge, right?  Same with the intestines....  Plus with all of the spasm and cramping, it kept me constipated.  Yeast messed me all up!

There is no "test" for yeast that I know of for intestinal yeast - other that what you feel and see.  I stopped eating all sugar (including fruit and potatoes) and grains, to stop feeding the yeast, and took grapefruit seed extract in water to kill the yeast.  Taking Probiotics in mega amounts then help repopulate the intestines with good bacteria as the yeast die.

Cool thing is that the same diet is for starving Lyme and Co too - so killing two problems with the same horrible diet.  I miss my chocolate and fruit!  But hey, I am glad all the bad things in me aren't getting fed!!!!

Oh, and I stopped wearing underwear because of all of this going on down there too!  Funny. 

I don't want to bum you out - but it took me a lot longer than 2 weeks on that diet of only protein and veggies - and I HATE veggies.  I dropped 20 pounds though!

Having yeast overgrowth makes you moody and grouchy and tired.  I was also bloated, and within 30 minutes of eating a meal, my stomach would pop out and move around like I was pregnant.  I would get headaches and a hangover feeling if I had a bunch of sugar one day and not much the next. 

I think the sugar/grains go in your mouth and then mixes with the yeast in the belly and it all turns into alcohol, which is how they make beer and wine - right?  That gave me all those symptoms plus a serious addiction to sugar and bread/cereals.  Just my thoughts on that....  it probably doesn't have a bit of scientific truth to it but it kept me from putting sugar and grains in my mouth.   

Hope you get that problem figured out soon.  I know how miserable you must feel.  

Check into gluten intolerance too.  I figured out that I have that once I tried to add food groups back in after the anti - yeast diet was over.  I still can't eat grains with wheat/gluten in them.  I've been gluten free since June 2009.   But at least I was able to have sugar every once in a while, until I started abx for Lyme and am back on the anti-yeast/anti-Lyme diet.

You were right - "When it rains it pours" !!!!! 

 

Aaaaahhhhhh! IBS! That's what they told me too! Eat more fiber they said! Nothing took that pain away right under my rib cage until I took care of the yeast overgrowth and stopped eating gluten.

I'm thinking you need to at least try the strict diet and see if it helps or not. It won't hurt you to experiment but it will continue to get worse if you don't do anything about it.

Get a plan first. Give away the "bad" foods (cereal, dairy, breads, processed foods, fruit, pasta, junk food, ect) It never worked for me to "ease" into this diet. And buy eggs, chicken, beef, lamb and other unprocessed meats. Get some veggies - salad, broccoli, celery, ect. Veggies are the hardest part for me. I just stand in the grocery store and stare at the produce hoping that some veggie will say "Come buy me. I taste good...." but no, they all make me say YUCK. Even carrots.

And yes, expect some withdrawl. (Headache, fatigue, emotional issues) So sorry you're going through this. But you will feel much better once the yeast is under control.

Good point, Missy Joy!!