That is a hard one to answer, Candida manifests itself differently in everyone. People may have completely different symptoms, and severities of those symptoms. Also...the kinds of treatment options respond differently to everyone too. Maybe your case wasn;t that bad, or maybe you lucked out and found the right course of antifungals for the kind of candida strain you had?
I have to add that I have been battling this for 6 months.It was very confusing because there days where I felt better then ever, and then others where I felt like my "old self" with no apparent pattern. I had to just stick with the herbs until the bad days stopped from surfacing TOTALLY(for a few weeks at least.
All my symptoms are gone except for my skin rash..which I am treating topically. I still take probiotics and stay on the diet though.