yeast connection

I research this gerd stuff till I am blue in the face....latest idea is fungi...specifically yeast. Does anyone have any thoughts on this?  The idea is your bacteria in your body got out of whack...yeast overpopulated...gerd is a "symptom" of the yeast problem.  Fix yeast problem=no more gerd. Only it could take YEARS to clear up the yeast.

 

yes I have been researching this for months and months now..yeast and bad bacteria can be the cause of gerd, functional dyspepsia and ibs. I have bought many books on this to try and read up as much as I can as well as researching it tons to try and figure out what is up with my stomach after all my tests were negative.
There are tests to prove you have an overgrowth of yeast and bacteria, but hardly any doctors will do them because they are taught in medical school otherwise. A good test is the "spit test". I'm pretty sure we arent allowed to post links after I tried earlier but all you have to do is search for it in google and you will find a ton on Candida.
The Candida diet, along with taking supplements and antimacrobials will help greatly. Stay away from sugar and alot of carbs..this is a given for most diets but its crucial if you have an outbreak of candida.

natural antimicrobials are garlic, oil of oregano, grapefruit seed, olive leaf extract. Aloe vera also helps heal if you have leaky gut, which is very common among people with gerd and most stomach issues.

Post Edited (bittersweet603) : 5/20/2006 7:15:26 AM (GMT-6)

So, Jeannie...are you not on a ppi like nexium. I have been on and off them for 2 years. Every time I get off, I have such terrible rebound I have to go back on.

IMO, not to try and stir up anything at all, but I have found more successful testimonials and relief from talking to many many people through natural sources and controlling candida, then from conventional medicine. That isnt to say that medication doesnt work for some people, but most of this world is severly over medicated which in turn has messed up our bodies even more causing other issues.
Candida isnt just a temporary problem, if you really looked into it you would see the hundreds of books written on it by qualified medical doctors (I have a few of these now) and scientific evidence of it actually being an issue. Some good books are the Yeast Connection and The Yeast Syndrome both written by doctors.
It is because yeast in small amounts are naturally occuring in our intestines that doctors will not treat chronic candidas..but once your body has a chance to get out of balance with our horrible american diet yeast can grow and transform in to several different strains.
Again this is only my opinion on the matter, I have still yet to cure whatever is going on in my body as well..but I find homeopathy and natural cures more beneficial alot of time then taking hoards of medication.

hey hearty, thanks for your reply. I'm going to look into the yeast thing.

Have you tried any other PPI's? I had a scope on Thursday and the doc said that I just had a little redness where my esophagus and stomach meet. I was taking nexium 40 mg per day. He switched me to aciphex 20mg and I feel like a new person. I have very little pain, no burning, no chest pain, all of it is vertually gone.

I agree that medications really aren't good for our bodies.  I have used slippery elm for my intestines. However, with the over use of antibiotics over many years, I can't see to get off the prevacid.  But I am using the slippery elm and pepperberry to try to get rid of the acid in my body.  But yes, you have to give up the white flour, white sugar white potatoes and stay away from fruits to try to get rid of the yeast.  I have eaten yogurt everyday for the last month and nothing has changed.  You may want to give the  slippery elm a try since it is healing to the intestines. 

So...you weren't scared of the procedure itself? I guess the way the give you that paper to sign explaining all the possible risks.....

I absolutely cannot drink a carbonated beverage...and I have to go easy on pasta but otherwise I really am not bothered by the food.

I know this all came about after a summer of lots and lots and lots of unnecesary meds thanks to a dumb doctor. My system got out of whack. I go to the specialist tomorrow and will probably schedule the scope. It will cost me $2500.00 out of pocket so I don't look forward to that!! My regular doctor (not the dumb one from 2 summers ago) is concerned because I can't seem to get a handle on the gerd and he does not think it should be that big of a deal. I know at least part of my problem is as soon as I feel better I quit the ppis. I go a month or two and then the symptoms come back 100%. I just hate the idea of always being on a drug. And nexium costs me $4.50 a day!! Gerd is really hurting my budget.

I would love to be normal...pop open a can of pop... pig out on pizza....just not feel this hideous chest pain...

I really see a connection between when I am a little constipated or gassy, my gerd is worse...but my specialist insists they are two separate things. Doesn't it make sense they could be connected? I heard that if you are constipated then the vapors go upward and cause gerd? Another quack???????????/ I wish I had the answers.

I just need some relief. Never sick a day in my life until 2 summers ago...and blindly trusted that doctor...finally got smart enough to get a second opinion....wow....did my eyes get opened. All I can say is be careful of doctors who love to write prescriptions to you. He actually told me that the way he diagnoses his patients is through medicines. If the medicine works, he figures that is their problem, if it doesn't, he scratches that off his list, and moves to another medicine...Never mind what it is doing to his unsuspecting patients bodies!!!!!!!!

My new doctor doesn't take medicine himself and tells me to research every prescription he writes me and make an educated decision as to whether I want to put it in my body.

I know what you mean about the aciphex....I have taken every ppi they make and they are ALL wonder drugs at first....I don't know what the trick is but I sure hope you feel better.

Oh...did your doctor say when you should have a follow-upn scope? Is it like a yearly thing to watch for changes?

I saw the doctor today...he was very compassionate. He left it up to me whether to have the scope or not (due to the money) but felt like I should within a month or so...
He said the chest pain comes from the irritation of the esophagus. He said this is a chronic condition and you should never take yourself off the nexium (or whatever drug you are on),. I told him I figured that out on my own...the hard way.

I think people get temporary relief when they do the natural stuff or low carb or whatever...but it seems most of them have a relapse. I told the nurse about some of the natural stuff since I am so desperate and he says he does a lot of that kind of stuff too!!

Bottom line is no one knows!!!!!!

Hope you get the results from your biopsy soon.
Were you sedated and had your throat sprayed with that numbing spray? How long did the effects of both last? Like were you normal the next day?

Did you do it in a hospital or at the clinic? Were you allowed to go home right after the procedure? Thanks for being so understanding of all my question!!

Thanks...you know how it is...when you know you are going to have something done...it is all you can think about!!!

I am finally convinced that I was misdiagnosed. I had diarhea for about 1 full year, was on prednisone for most of that year. Whenever I would drop my Pred to 15 or less, my diarhea symptoms would get worse........sound familiar.

When I was originally diagnosed, my GI said that in the 30 years he was doing C-scopes, he had never seen anything like it. He said my colon looked like nothing but red sandpaper, throughout. Thus he labelled me with Pancolitis. I never had any bleeding "IN" my stool. Only sometimes "ON" my stool or on the TP. Thus it was always due to hemmoroids.

If you do a search on my posts, you will see that I have tried many holistic things to see what would help.

I finally listened to a few friends and saw an Irodologist. She said I had Candida, not UC. So I tried some DIFLUCAN and go on a Candida diet, sure enough, I was able to get off the Pred for the 1st time in 6 months after taking Diflucan for 1 week.
After researching Diflucan, I discovered that it just prevented Yeast from Multiplying, so I tried Nystatin and at the same time stopped my Asacol..........two weeks later, I have no symptoms, my Diarhea is long gone, I am on no UC drugs anymore, no Asacol, no Pred, even stopped the VSL #3 to ensure that I didn't get worse........feel great too.

So how did the Pred fit into this.......well Prednisone actually feeds yeast.....so if you are on 15 or 20+mg of Pred, the anti-inflammation starts to counteract the inflammation caused by the intestinal issues the yeast creates, once you drop down to past 15, the yeast is able to feed off the Pred and there isn't enough Pred to countact the yeast.

I would think that most if not all of you have UC, but if you had issues like me where everything didn't add up........try some Nystatin and see what happens.

Unfortunately, I found no interest in any GI doctor that I saw when I mentioned Candida, they through it out like it was some sort of witchcraft. I saw three different ones and they all blew me off. 1 year on Pred with all the damage that does to your body, 1 year on Asacol at $177 per month.....$600 or so invested in VSL#3 all my pain and frustration due to GI Doctor's without open minds.

Give it a try, make sure you weren't like me................by the way, I don't have any disease, I just had a bad diet, too much processed sugars and a bad balance in my GI tract. Just needed something to kill the yeast.