Celiac is causing candida but nystatin and fluconazole make me sick, what do I do?

[Wendy Darling]

I will be contacting my doctor in the morning but I still want to consult my celiac tribe. I have had chronic candida issues my whole adult life. Thrust, yeast, the works. It’s seemingly impossible to get under control. I’ve been on the candida diet for ages. So much as having a cough drop can trigger symptoms so I’m lead to believe it’s never been under control in the first place. I’m a classical singer and now I have to put away the microphone because thrush has infected my larynx. Determined to not give up, Ive been prescribed nystatin and now fluconazole and both are crippling me with the worst god awful migraine and flu-like symptoms. I can’t do this. Is there hope? Is there something else I don’t know about? Halp 

[trents]

Have you tried pro biotics? I suspect your gut biome mix is out of balance, allowing yeast/fungi to systemically be out of control. If you don't mind my asking, what meds are you regularly on? Could something you are taking be dinging your gut biome? How are your blood sugars?

[Wendy Darling]

I am taking probiotics but weirdly it seems to be making my thrush worse but that doesn’t make sense. I am not on any meds. I have little test strips that show my blood sugars are good. 

[trents]

Have you tried the nystatin mouth rinse for the oral thrush?

[Wendy Darling]

2 hours ago, trents said:

Have you tried the nystatin mouth rinse for the oral thrush?

Yes, as it stated in the post title it makes me terribly sick 

[trents]

8 minutes ago, Wendy Darling said:

Yes, as it stated in the post title it makes me terribly sick 

Yes, but I wasn't sure if you were referring to the pill form or the oral rinse form of nystatin. 

[Wendy Darling]

3 minutes ago, trents said:

Yes, but I wasn't sure if you were referring to the pill form or the oral rinse form of nystatin. 

Oh I see, sorry. I am currently prescribed the mouth rinse and swallow form. I wasn’t aware that they have a pill form of that. 

[docaz]

On 9/3/2021 at 11:06 PM, Wendy Darling said:

I will be contacting my doctor in the morning but I still want to consult my celiac tribe. I have had chronic candida issues my whole adult life. Thrust, yeast, the works. It’s seemingly impossible to get under control. I’ve been on the candida diet for ages. So much as having a cough drop can trigger symptoms so I’m lead to believe it’s never been under control in the first place. I’m a classical singer and now I have to put away the microphone because thrush has infected my larynx. Determined to not give up, Ive been prescribed nystatin and now fluconazole and both are crippling me with the worst god awful migraine and flu-like symptoms. I can’t do this. Is there hope? Is there something else I don’t know about? Halp 

Are you sure it is a candida infection? In healthy adults, this is extremely rare. It is most commonly seen in people with severe debilitating autoimmune diseases (celiac is not one of them) in extremely young or old people. I would for sure investigate further. Clotrimazole troches are often prescribed and well tolerated for candida infections. 

[Wendy Darling]

On 9/5/2021 at 10:19 AM, docaz said:

Are you sure it is a candida infection? In healthy adults, this is extremely rare. It is most commonly seen in people with severe debilitating autoimmune diseases (celiac is not one of them) in extremely young or old people. I would for sure investigate further. Clotrimazole troches are often prescribed and well tolerated for candida infections. 

I am not certain if it is candida, but I am seeing an immunologist and allergy specialist and he used the word candida in response to confiding about my issues with yeast infections and thrush so that's why I used that word. Thanks for the tip.