Does yeast cause sugar cravings?

YES!

Do you need a prescription for what?

Sorry, I had been reading Piroutte's post about Nystantin powder.

So alcoholism runs in my family. I don't drink at all, but I can't kick soda. It was actually the subject of a whole other thread. Bread, oh I can't pass up fresh bread if we go to a restaurant. My husband gets mad because he says that i eat too much and don't finish my meal.

I was looking quickly at the results from the 23 and me tests I had done before ever even thinking of Lyme. I just ran it through livingwello and one of the other online interpreters. I was particularly interested in medication reactions because i have reactions a lot. A few caught my eye which mentioned addiction and when I read these posts about alcohol and sugar cravings the wheels started turning.

Definitely have sugar and bread cravings. Definitely have major GI symptoms.

So, I wondered if I should treat for yeast/candida and see if it helped with the sugar cravings.

I was asking about symptoms because if I can make a case for the possibility of yeast/candida I know she would work with me on this, but she is a PA and I don't want to put her in a position where she could get in trouble. She and I have a long history and she knows better than anyone the struggles I've had. She also knows that i don't ask for anything unless I'm sure and I'm never wrong. Six or seven kidney stones ago, we both found that i knew when it was a kidney stone and i needed something to help me until it passed. One of the docs in the practice came down on me really hard when I came in to get an order for a CT to image a stone. She was being kind and wrote a pain script just in case I was right. I was right and we both knew it. I dutifully told the MD that I would not fill the script until I heard back from her with the results. She knew I was right about the stone and didn't say anything. One the way home my husband asked what I was going to do and I said fill the script. It was a kidney stone.

So to try the Nystatin, it needs to be a reasonable treatment. She is on board with the Lyme. When I saw her a few weeks ago, I was still waiting on the results from Igenex. It was my annual and i filled her in on everything. So has seen some cases of Lyme but they are new cases. We talked about the fact that I may go with TCM and is on board with it.

I know I need a LLMD or LLND but there aren't many options in my area so I'll likely travel. There are reasons I can't get treatment for at least a couple of months and thought i would use the time to get my body ready. If my sugar cravings are from yeast it would be great if i could nip that in the bud before starting treatment. So given a history of alcoholism in the family, a possibility of that the specific gene mutation that has been identified in my dna, and my sugar cravings that are at of addiction level proportions I thought this would be a good thing to pursue.

I'll have to do more research before really deciding to follow up on this, but getting answers to some of the questions from those of you who have experienced this seemed like a good first place to start. i certainly have had my fair share of yeast infections in the past, but didn't realize they could become systemic and cause sugar cravings. Makes sense, like so much else now that I'm looking through the world from a different view point. I've always been proactive and that's not likely to change anytime soon.

Thanks for your help,
Kim

Also… meant to explain this a little better:

Craving sugar is not a natural state of the body. So anyone who likes sugary foods likely has some yeast/fungal imbalance in your body.

Yeast creates sugar cravings because that is what it feeds upon. It can literally change your brain chemistry into wanting no other food but sugar. One common sx is lack of appetite but craving sugar. So it is in control, not you. If you stop consuming sugar, it has to find something else to feed on, which is not easy for it to do. But if you leave your y/f overgrowth untreated, the y/f does eventually learn to adapt and can survive on foods other than sugar. It's scary stuff.

The brilliance of the antifungals is that once they kill the yeast—the sugar cravings stop. And what makes the pure powder so effective is a) it's pure and a stronger dose than any other nystatin form; and b) because it is a powder, once you swallow it, it coats the entire alimentary canal and hits nearly every possible hiding place where you can find yeast, that the pills cannot reach.

-p