HealingWell
Search Close Search
☰

Nystatin - concerns about form, dosage, resistance

Support Forums
>
Lyme Disease
✚ New Topic ✚ Reply
❬ ❬ Previous Thread |Next Thread ❭ ❭
Posted 11/8/2019 4:52 PM (GMT 0)
I recently started Nystatin. Doc prescribed 500,000 unit tablets at a dosage of 2 tablets 2x day.

I have read other information online and see it’s usually dosed more than 2x day. Also, there’s a powder form.

If you take/took Nystatin for yeast in the intestines, what form and dosage did you take?

Will Candida mutate and become resistant to Nystatin if I can’t completely knock it out?

I’m worried. I am pretty sure it’s already resistant to the natural anti-fungals I use, as they have little effect anymore and I clearly respond to Nystatin in spite of long term use of natural antifungal herbs and supplements.
Posted 11/8/2019 5:33 PM (GMT 0)
Is your Nystatin from a compounding pharmacy?

Ie - pure Nystatin ?

Have you read Pirouettes post in the New to Lyme thread?
I believe it’s at the end of page 2
Posted 11/8/2019 7:13 PM (GMT 0)
I've been on exactly that dosage for several years and had the same concerns. My understanding has always been that it is used as a prevention as opposed to curative and that it can reduce it's efficiency after taking it for long periods. I just did a stool test and candida was only present by numbers as "few" as opposed to none, many or unacceptable levels. Functional Medicine doc added in caprylic acid to boost and I upped my probiotics.

thx Girlie, I'll also read Pirouettes post smile
Posted 11/8/2019 8:45 PM (GMT 0)

UpBeetLiving said...
I've been on exactly that dosage for several years and had the same concerns. My understanding has always been that it is used as a prevention as opposed to curative and that it can reduce it's efficiency after taking it for long periods. I just did a stool test and candida was only present by numbers as "few" as opposed to none, many or unacceptable levels. Functional Medicine doc added in caprylic acid to boost and I upped my probiotics.

thx Girlie, I'll also read Pirouettes post smile

I used to think Fluconazole killed yeast and Nystatin was a preventive, but my latest reading gives a different understanding. What I am reading is Fluconazole is used to treat systemic yeast and Nystatin kills Candida in the GI tract.

I already did 2 months of Fluconazole but didn’t notice anything much while on it. Doc also prescribed Amphotericin B, but I didn’t fill it. I think I need to schedule a phone consultation with the doctor about it. I don’t think I could possibly do a Candida diet right now, and that’s a big deal, too.
Posted 11/9/2019 3:02 AM (GMT 0)
Best way , is to combine diflucan and nystatin, one diflucan and nystatin three times daily, if you need more add pure allicin too. My llmd has me on that I just told you about diflucan and nystatin three times a day. Dr Ross also uses this protocol.
✚ New Topic ✚ Reply