yep, i agree. oil of oregano is a very very strong substance. i was taking too much of it for months and months, and i feel like it really messed up my system. thanks for chiming in!   [End]
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i was a regular on this forum for quite a while, when i was convinced that candida and parasites were what was causing my digestive woes. i have had issues with slow digestion, severe bloating, gas, fatigue, brain fog, nausea, and pain for years. i tried doctor after doctor to try to find out what was wrong with me, and none of them could find any issues. after a lot of research and a lot of frustration with the medical world, i figured that candida must be my issue - all the symptoms fit. i went full force into the diet and herbal treatments, and after months and months with no r ...
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it is hard to measure - i just started taking it yesterday. i am hoping it’ll get rid of these little buggers.. i’ve had a few weird things happen since starting it - a very deep vibration in both of my ears last night, and an upset stomach and aching behing my eyes today. i don’t know if these are symptoms of die off, or side effects. we’ll see! best of luck to you!!   [End]
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i started valbazen yesterday morning, and i’m taking 3.5 ml twice a day with a fatty meal. i’ve felt pretty queasy since the first dose.. not really hungry, and feeling nauseous when i do eat. my stomach has been rumbling a LOT. i had a strange side effect (too early for die off, i am guessing?) last night. when i laid down to sleep, i started feeling this deep vibrating in my ears. it was wtrong enough that i thought there was a tractor trailor or something running outside my window. my hearing felt kind of muted and my ears felt a little tingly. i have had itching inside of m ...
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this whole thing freaks me out. ugh. i just want them out of me.   [End]
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i am just starting on valbazen, so i can’t offer you any information as far as how it’s worked for me yet - but i will let you know how it works for me! what dosage are you taking currently? i am crossing my fingers that this will help..   [End]
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i’m not sure about the dose yet - just recieved it in the mail today. maybe 4 ml twice a day? going to research before i start on it.   [End]
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i just found this thread and would be interested in talking to you folks.. i have several other issues that go along with it, but my brain fog is perhaps the most debilitating symptom i have. i have had brain fog for as long as i can remember. i feel like it got worse and started affecting my daily life when i was about twelve - i started having a harder time focusing at school, my grades dropped, and it was incredibly hard for me to keep my mind on my work. i stopped enjoying the things i used to enjoy.. everything felt like i was seeing it through a mesh curtain and it scared me. ...
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has anyone had any luck taking valbazen? success stories? the opposite? i just ordered some and am going to give it a shot.. anything i should worry about as far as side effects go?   [End]
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thank you for this information! i just ordered some valbazen, and was worried about possible sweeteners. now to see how it treats the little buggers inside of me..   [End]
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i just had a bunch of tests done to try to figure out what’s going on with my body. my main symptoms have been severe fatigue, brain fog, various stomach/bowel problems, vaginal itching/pain, and a general feeling of illness. the tests i had done were for liver/pancreas/gallbladder function, lyme disease, thyroid function, food allergies, vitamin deficiencies, blood sugar, yeast infection culture.. ALL of them came back perfectly normal, INCLUDING the yeast culture (which surprised me - i have been treating myself unsuccessfully for candida for almost a year)! the only thing that i ...
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i’ve tried straight vodka on my candida diet before, when i was kind of in denial and needed something to take the edge off. i figured it would be fine because, technically, it doesn’t FEED candida. it set me back A LOT.. i am still dealing with what i think are partially the after effects of my last vodka adventure, and that was months ago. i feel like, after doing so much to clean out my system, the alcohol bogged me down again big time, and feels like it almost broke something inside of me. my liver was working so hard to clean out the toxins from the candida and everything else th ...
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i’ve tried fasting, colon cleansing, and i always take hcl and enzymes with anything i eat. i feel like there is something terribly wrong with my digestive system... like something in there is just not doing its job at all. the diet i am on is mostly vegetables and vegetable juices, with some meat and eggs. i am going to try liver flushes, but i am skeptical. nothing has ever helped and i feel like anything i try just seems to make things worse. so frustrated.   [End]
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i’ve heard that you need to be free of parasites before flushing your liver. is this true?   [End]
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for YEARS, i have had terrible digestive issues - every time i eat, i get painfully bloated. my food takes hours and hours to digest and just sits in my stomach and esophagus, resulting in terrible heartburn whenever i eat. i have been tested for thyroid function, food allergies, etc.. i’ve even had colonoscopies and endoscopies to try to figure out what’s wrong with me, and no one has ever been able to nail it down. i’ve been on a candida diet for the past 8 months, with few improvements.. in fact, i seem to be able to eat less and less all the time - i get so bloated when i ea ...
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last night i woke up two or three hours after going to bed and was violently sick. my stomach was so bloated that i could hardly breathe, i was nauseous, and my heart was beating ten times faster than it should have been. i had taken some olive leaf capsules and some uva ursi right before bed, both of which i have taken before and been fine. i made myself puke and drove myself to the emergency room, where they proceeded to do nothing whatsoever. i felt better within an hour or so of vomiting. i hadn’t eaten anything different, really.. all i can think is that maybe i shouldn’t ...
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what happened when you tried them?   [End]
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just found this! very interesting. http://doctorschar.com/archives/maitakegrifola-frondosa-and-fungal-infection/   [End]
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hey folks! i forage for wild mushrooms all summer and fall and sell them to local restaurants. i love them, but since starting my candida battle, have avoided them. i recently found a huge load of maitake. i have always read that they are incredible for your body, and boost the immune system like nothing else. i know that mushrooms are generally a no-no on the diet, but giving the medicinal properties of the maitake, do you think it would be an acceptable, and even beneficial, addition to my diet? i would love to sit down to a nice plate of mushrooms ever once in a while. ...
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weird, it doesn’t say that on the bottle. anyway, the bottle is already in the trash. xylitol it is for now... in very limited amounts.   [End]
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it doesn’t have any additives... just stevia and water. and i’ve tried a few different brands and they all make me nauseous.. i think it’s the taste, i can’t stand it. rather just avoid sweetness altogether i guess, maybe a little xylitol occasionally.   [End]
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anyone else here feel sick after eating stevia? i use the sweetleaf brand. i’m not sure if it’s the taste (which i think is VILE, but am trying to get used to), or if it’s actually affecting my stomach.. but after eating anything with stevia, i feel queasy and ill for hours and have no interest in eating. i LOVE my xylitol, but i am trying not to use it, cause i don’t wanna kill off my good bacteria. you think xylitol would be ok in monderation? ugh, stevia...ugh.   [End]
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holy crap! (pun intended) last night i tried a saline enema followed by one with topical nystatin (nystatin and talc)mixed in, along with a little oregano oil. i got a LOT of candida out. and today, for the first time in MONTHS, i am not bloated AT ALL. i am a small girl.. just over a hundred pounds, but for most of the past year months (and every time i’ve eaten for the past 6 or 7 YEARS), i have been uncomfortably bloated to the point where i look like i’m 5 months pregnant. but today, there is NOTHING. coincidence? i think not! i only had a tiny bit of the topical nystatin ...
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haha, what the hell? this is not a fetish site. if you were only posting about fecal steaming for medical purposes, it’d be one thing.. but asking for pictures of ”ladie’s” (learn to spell, bro) doing ”vape hits of diarrhea” is another thing entirely. get a life.   [End]
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i recently discovered that some of my supplements - namely betaine HCL, digestive enzymes, and certain probiotics - contain maltodextrin, potato starch, and fruit extracts. they are of course, tiny pills, but it still worries me. do you think these things, in tiny amounts, could still contribute to candida?   [End]
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yeah, i haven’t included any sort of grain in my diet for a long time. trying to go as low carb as possible. coconut and nuts are the only slightly carby thing i will eat, and even those i’m not sure about.   [End]
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one more question - i do not have insurance, and have researched a bit about getting nystatin online. i found this: http://www.russianfooddirect.com/health-beauty/medicin-cabinet/tablets-remedies/nystatin/ it almost seems too good to be true - what do you think? and, also - can you dissolve the tablets to use rectally? would you recommend taking it orally as well?   [End]
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i will! thank you, thank you. gonna work on getting my stomach acid up, etc. so i can properly digest food, and i am going to see if i can somehow get some nystatin.   [End]
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thank you!   [End]
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wow, that’s pretty crazy. makes me wanna go pillage a pharmacy in the night for their nystatin and enema bottles. never been so excited to put something in my bum.   [End]
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thank you so much!! one question about nystatin, though - i have tried getting it from the doctor before, but didn’t end up using it because it is so terribly sweet and sticky! i can’t imagine that you are talking about the same preparation - i tried to ask for them to prepare it without sweetener, and they just looked confused.   [End]
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i’m excited to try the betain hcl - seems like low stomach acid has always been one of my big problems, and that it might help GREATLY. thank you thank you!!   [End]
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yeah, something in all multivitamins makes me sick to my stomach. they don’t seem to be absorbed very well, either, because my pee has that nasty vitamin smell to it all the time when i take them, which makes me feel nauseous all over again when i smell it.. hahaha! oh well. thank you for your reply!! i am working on it, slowly but surely.   [End]
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betaine hcl? i will research it and possibly pick some up. i am not really sure which antifungals work best for me - honestly, i don’t notice much of a difference in my symptoms with ANY of them except for diflucan, and that doesn’t seem to help with my digestive issues or brain fog - just the superficial infections. i rotate them because a lot of what i have read about candida recommends it - there is so much conflicting information out there about EVERYTHING regarding candida that i just don’t know how to go about it anymore. i just started the candex a few days ago, so i am tryi ...
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i usually eat a salad with meat... or eggs and meat with some cucumber juice.   [End]
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ugh, i am so frustrated. i’ve been at this diet for 8 or 9 months now. i have had a couple setbacks, eating/drinking certain things that i thought might be ok but weren’t, but i am generally very careful and good about sticking to the diet and trying to beat this thing. i have been especially strict in the last three months. but i feel like hell! i’m bloated all the time and my food isn’t digesting right. the brain fog makes it nearly impossible to work. i have no energy at all, and i could easily sleep for hours at any given time. i have almost nonstop diarrhea, and i’m ridiculo ...
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i drink very occasionally. and there are many varying opinions on whether or not a little straight vodka is ok once in a while on the diet, so don’t go givin me crap. i have had issues with yeast for years and i have deduced on my own that i have problems with candida.   [End]
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it seems like, if i drink alcohol (generally just a little pure vodka, and not often at all, due to candida), any food that i eat just prior or within several hours after drinking takes forever to digest. it feels like it’s just sitting there in my gut and not moving anywhere. i’ll still be burping up food i ate 5 or 6 hours ago. does anyone else have this issue? do you know why, or if there is some sort of disorder that could be causing it? gastroparesis, maybe?   [End]
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how do you go about finding the root cause, why the immune system isn’t fighting off the candida?   [End]
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thank you! i would be very interested in talking to you. i do have issues with depression and anxiety... always have. my health issues are a major cause of anxiety for me as well... i think about it all the time. is there anything in particular that you would recommend for vaginal treatment? it is driving me nuts. constant discomfort for the past several years, except for the rounds of diflucan. i would love to hear your input.   [End]
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i have no idea what’s causing it... i am a 26 year old active female, and i eat very well. i should be in great health. the diflucan seemed to help greatly while i was on it (in addition to oregano oil, gse, pau d’arco, coconut oil, and very strong probiotics), but as soon as i got off of it the symptoms started coming back. i was on 150 mg every three days.   [End]
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i have been on diflucan for several months to help treat my candida and vaginal yeast infections. i finished my prescription a week or two ago, and now am feeling many symptoms coming back, despite taking lots of herbal antifungals. brain fog, terrible yeast infection, stomach issues.. this is so frustrating... i thought that, after seven months on the diet combined with the diflucan and herbs, that i would be fine cutting out the presription. how can my body not have healed enough to keep the candida at least partually at bay? especially with my continued strict diet and use of an ...
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i have been on a candida diet for 6 months or so, and have been taking many antifungals all along, and also parasite-killing herbs - pau d’arco, caprylic acid and coconut oil, black walnut, garlic, oregano oil, grapefruit seed extract, cloves, cinnamon... i’ve seen mostly progress and haven’t really had any adverse effects to the supplements i’ve been taking. yesterday, though, i decided to try kroeger’s wormwood formula. i didn’t have any reaction to it within the first hour or two, but after taking it multiple times per day as directed, i feel incredibly bizarre - like i am in anot ...
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thanks for your reply! it does make sense to avoid swamping your immune system with unneeded toxins.. i would never eat something visibly moldy, i was more talking about foods that are supposedly no-nos due to their mold content...peanuts, pistachios, cashews, cheeses... foods without visible mold.   [End]
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i haven’t been able to find any legitimate sources that tell me that yeast feeds on mold. doesn’t make sense to me.   [End]
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i don’t understand how molds and fungi containing foods, like mushrooms, cheeses, and certain nuts, can feed candida. doesn’t candida live off of sugars and starches, not other living organisms? could someone please explain to me how eating some moldy pistachios could affect my candida?   [End]
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hey folks! i’ve been on the candida diet for several months and am feeling a lot better. i do have a question though. i am brewing my own kombucha, but am super nervous to try it, as i don’t want to set myself back. i generally let it ferment until there is only a tiny amount of sweetness left to it. do any of you have experience drinking kombucha while on the diet? did you experience any negative effects? please let me know! thank you so much. -c   [End]
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