Another possibility

I cannot tell you how much this blog has helped me to emotionally deal with all of this. I think it may prove more valuable than I anticipated. I got a package in the mail from one of my blog readers. In the package was a photocopy from a book and a little book called The Bible Cure for Candida and Yeast Infections. Weeks prior to the start of the blog and receiving this package, I had actually spent many hours on the internet reading about Candida. I am not going to give the big explanation on Candida. You can Google it. Candida is when the yeast in your body gets out of balance with all the good bacteria, and it wreaks havoc on your system. My Chiropractor was actually the first to suggest Candida. When I suggested the possibility to my Naturopath she down played it. Saying we were already addressing that possibility with the supplements I am currently taking and I did not need to do the extreme Candida diet. I am not discounting my Naturopath, she has mentioned that is a learning process, we learn something every time my body responds either favorable or adversely to a treatment or a food. She has also commented on several occasions that based on my bodies reactions that my body is more fragile then she thought.

I do know that I recently just went through antibiotics and ended up with thrush. The MD was shocked that I would have gotten thrush from the antibiotics. She threw 3 anti fungal prescriptions at it. I finally had to call the naturopaths. Her herb suggestions on top of the last prescriptions finally cleared it up.


After reading this book about Candida, I am looking at this as a real possibility. Luckily it can be cured buy a strict diet and a few supplements. My experience has been that I can get really sick just by putting the wrong thing in my mouth. It is usually not at the moment that I eat it, but within a day or two depending on what I ate. It can be debilitating. I was enlightened by reading this book. I could literally draw parallel lines between Lyme symptoms and Candida symptoms. They have so many of the same symptoms, including neurological problems. The deflating part is there is no definitive test for Candida. Most doctors don’t recognize it as a problem in the general population.(Just my luck!)

The good news is that I am basically all ready living the Candida diet. No sugar, yeast, milk. The book even has a section on needing to detox your liver.

Friday was a crazy day. I was gone all day. I knew I needed my energy and strength so I started my day with an Ensure. I should have read the label, 25g of sugar (OOPS) I had the kids with me shopping at waited too long to eat. We stopped at Sam’s club knowing I could grab a salad. They were out, but I had to eat, so I ate a hot dog. What was I thinking? I was feeling great, up until I made those fatal mistakes. Well they were not fatal. I am still alive, but I had felt amazing for 3 days in a row and by that night I was back to enduring symptoms. I know it will take a couple of days for this mistake to clear out of my system, especially if it is Candida and I did just give them a major feast. Live and learn, but at least now I am learning.

I still have another week before I see my Naturopath again, but that should give me time to experiment. I am going to try to eat perfectly this week. I figure if my symptoms diminish again then I am going to wait on all the Lyme testing and treatment. (The tests are expensive and usually inconclusive) If it really is Lyme it should not go away just because of my diet. If I eat perfectly and I get worse then I will look more into the possibility of Lyme. I have dealt with it this for so long what is another month or two.

I am giving up hope for anything in my health ever being black and white!