Looking for more Candida advice please

So the diet is going well so far, I'm strictly eating only vegetables, meat, eggs, nuts, and healthy oils. I'm drinking lemon water and ACV, taking coconut oil and MCT oil, drinking Pau D'arco and lightly use GSE.

I plan on easing into a modified master cleanse with no maple syrup and I'll do some veggie juicing to replace it instead. I'll also incorporate bone broth and I'll do the salt water flushes with Himilayan salt as well.

I know theat the master cleanse is not intended to rid the body of candida, but to me, this makes sense.

Any comments/advice would be great, thanks!

Your plan sounds good. I would just go slowly and not do too much at one time that will place extra burden on the body. And you need to be able to gauge your body's responses to these changes.

I didn't glean that from her post, Huddie. I surely hope she didn't intend to stop eating.

Sorry for the confusion, I intend on doing veggetable juices/smoothies for meal replacement. This way I can clear everything out. I am replacing solids with liquids, but either way, I will still be ingesting food, but in a different form

Post Edited (Katie95) : 12/28/2016 4:26:57 PM (GMT-7)

Thanks, I read over it! Makes me feel like I'm on the right path

That sounds intense, ChickenArise! I don't think that my Candida is bad to the point where it has spread to my organs (I hope! I could be wrong). You can see my symptoms in my signature, I believe that Candida is a big part of that equation. However, the only physical symptoms of Candida that I can see is the thrush on my tongue and acne.

I never knew what the thrush was when I was younger, so I just ignored it. But when I think back, I can remember having it as early at 15 years old, so I've had it for a while.

I have considered using antifungal scripts in the past, but I will try this first. If all else fails then I will definitely be in need of those.

Again, I'm not sure how bad my Candida is, but the thrush on my tongue covers about 1/6th of my tongue and is only thick in a 1 square cm section of my tongue, the rest looks fuzzy and broken up. I'm basically hoping that my efforts to eat paleo for the past couple of years have lessened the load while leading up to this and that it won't be as hard to irradicate as I think (knock on wood, crossing fingers, etc. LOL)

Also, I can easily brush the thrush off of my tongue with a toothbrush now. I could never do that before, even a few months ago before I knew what it was. I would scrub and scrub and be so frustrated!

I just recently found out that I have Candida and I mistook it for Lyme for the longest time (they symptoms can seriously overlap). How I figured it out is that the Lyme diet is a no-no when you have active Candida. Like beans and nuts and fruits cause me a bad reaction almost instantly. Also, I wasn't responding to Lyme treatment anymore. Only felt more toxic.

My naturopath and I figured out a starting plan by doing Can-Tox 10 drops twice per day (the second time after dinner, before bedtime) and Candidase Extra Strength at the same time as the second dosage of Can-Tox to ease up the die-offs. Maybe worth looking into if you have plateaued.

Since it's all trial and error, I believe that we are all guinea pigs at some point......trying to get better.

I thought this was very insightful, especially the symptom list at the end: http://www.allergymo.com/topics.html. The spit test was fun to do! (And boy, do I have candida!) This too has been enlightening as a questionnaire: https://www.thecandidadiet.com/candidaquestionnaire.htm.

Katie95,

You did such huge changes to your lifestyle, I applaud you! It isn't easy to quit smoking (Candida makes us sensitive to tobacco smoke) and change your diet and give up fruits. Probably your Candida is begging for some kind of a sweet right now, not necessarily your body. But you don't have to give up all carbs! We need at least a little bit, like from buckwheat or quinoa or sweet potatoes, to keep the blood sugars in check.

I noticed when I stopped eating gluten, diary, and sugars I felt so so so bad. I made pretty drastic changes in my diet. But at the same time, I wasn't eating right because I didn't know that Candida is my active infection now, since the symptoms are so close to Lyme and other co-infections. So I was eating nuts and beans which are moldy and high in carbs. I also ate berries, which are really high in sugars. So I was basically making the fire inside me more intensified. Recently, I started seeing a naturopath who seems very knowledgeable when it comes to diet, especially according to your specific gene mutations and your heritage. She asked me to keep a diary of what I eat on a daily basis and what reactions I get. Apparently, my big offenders were cucumbers, zucchini, asparagus, bok choy. These are really great foodsources, but they made my candida worse and they're foreign foods in terms of my heritage. We are doing Advanced Allergy Therapeutics to desensitize these overreactions to seemingly innocent foodsources. Because I am also lactose intolerant and celiac (which I never knew of!), we're addressing that as well. And we just started treating me for Candida with Can-Tox and Candidase (if you look at Candidase Extra Strength, the ingredients are really great to kill Candida). I am really feeling the die offs! Even my tongue coating is starting to improve.

If you have the time and resources, I would most certainly invest in a good naturopath who is very knowledgeable in dealing with Candida and who can tell you what you can eat according to your illness, your DNA, your culture, your Blood Type. Also if they know AAT would be a huge bonus for you. The machine can help you reset your organ system functions. After my first visit, I feel like my MTHFR and my neurotransmitters are working much better. While I feel so poopie physically, mentally and emotionally I am more balanced and feel like I am on the right track. Not too long ago, I had such crippling anxiety and depression. I don't feel like I am in doom anymore.

Happy New year to you all! Happy Healing!

I also tried herbs and many of then can be harsh and toxic. I felt so terrible. I would try gentle homeopathy instead. And keep at your diet, you are doing wonderfully! Changes don't happen right away, but do keep in track every little thing that happens. You'll see, when you go back, you've made a lot of progress.

Tepid,

Sounds cool. My internist suggested LDA and I like the sounds of AAT better.

I will contact a few practitioners near me (not that any are VERY near) but what can you do.

Thanks and I'll keep you posted.