Candida Meds - Which Ones Work?

[Eric-C]

I posted up in the other thread about leaky gut.

I finally did some research all night and did the spit test this morning. That came back as positive for Candida.

It also made me hate doctors.again....

Long story is I took Cipro 4 years ago before knowing I had Celiac's and it put me into 6 months of continuous problems. Now from reading, going back to my previous bouts with this I finally have it figured out...I hope

It was Candida all along. I was for the most part border line with having a severe problem with it and the anti-biotics kicked me over the edge. Well I took anti-biotics a while back and had a similar reaction as I did to Cipro and I've taken this before last year and had zero problems.

Last year however I did not eat refined sugar. No pop, candy, etc...we also

I never could figure out why I went months with no problems and then they popped up again, then went away. Well our diet dramatically changed. A lot of white rice, lot more sugar and we did go back to drinking pop on occasion.

So now adding this all up and looking at the history it was the Candida flairing up.

This time around it was more severe. I accidently was taking gluten AND anti-biotics. I had hypoglycemia and a bunch of other problems the past week. I was better by Easter sunday but got something I should not have which put me back to square one.

The past four days I've done the Candida diet. Its made a huge improvement. My bouts of up and down sugar are short but I'm still having a racing heart beat once in a while at night.

My problem is the shortage of carbs is causing me an issue. I work 10+ hours per day. We own our own business and things are really picking up. I need to be clear headed and the lack of carbs is not working. The spit test showed severe infection and I don't doubt it.

I've read about a lot of the Candida meds...which ones work? I need to have more carbs but I know without a counter to them I'm just making my problem worse.

My reaction is "mild". I get the symptoms of leaky gut but thankfully I can eat anything without stomach problems.

We'll pare down our diet on the carbs but I cannot have a lack of clear thought when with a customer. I also cannot be prepared for the day. I need to have the carbs, not the amount I was eating before but something to keep me going.

Anyone had any experience with them?

Thanks

[Ms Jan]

I've tried most of the recommended anti-candida remedies over the last three years, including the prescription drugs Nystatin and diflucan, with varying results. I do think what works best depends on the specific type of candida that is infecting you, and also on the individual digestive situation, but here are my personal experiences:

the candida diet is a must ! Eating nuts/almonds or beans/lentils can help with the carbs. Rice makes me as sick as any wheat does.

Diflucan and nystatin worked wonders for me the first time. but when I stopped, the candida recurred, and the second time the effect was weaker. and when I realized the problem would keep recurring I went for herbal solutions instead.

the probiotic Threelac works very well to keep down the candida, but has never totally cured it for me. The same goes for golden-seal (which is good against systemic candida - watch out for sensitivities as apparently goldenseal is not recommendable for celiacs), pau d'arco (which works well but is mild), liquid olive leaf extract (very good, but insufficient on its own - and make sure it does not contain alcohol), aloe vera juice helps clean the system, but is no real candida treatment. Wild oregano oil is very strongly antifungal, and works well, but to me somehow it had almost antibiotic effects and I felt it was also killing off good bacteria, so I stopped it. Also grape fruit seed extract works well, but wasn't the remedy to kill mycandida. Coconut oil is helpful, but it was when I went on to the caprylic acid a few months ago, that I finally found what was right for me. I'm still taking it, so of course I don't know what will happen when I stop, but I do feel that the candida is no longer bothering me at all.

I hope this can help - but you might need to do a bit of trial and error to find what works best for you ...

Good luck!

[RiceGuy]

I will also suggest caprylic acid capsules, as that is what worked for me. Funny thing is, I didn't tapper down carbs one bit. And at the time I had no idea about gluten, so was still eating that too. I was really eating far too much carbs - I'd typically have about a pound of pasta and half a loaf of bread each day. Somehow though, the caprylic acid still worked great! I took it for around two or three months I think.

However, some things I did do along with the capsules were probably very important. I avoided all sugars, vinegars (such as ketchup), yeasts (such as yeast breads), and fruit. I waited maybe a year before trying fruit, and still only one piece in any given week at most. I can now eat fruit more often, but I didn't even try to for a long time. So I don't know how long I really needed to wait. I was just determined never to let the yeast get out of hand again. To this day, I still do not eat any refined sugars or yeasts.

HTH

[Eric-C]

Thanks for your replies.

My Candida problem seems to solve itself quickly if I stay away from sugars. I need a trigger for it to really get going and that trigger is either gluten or anti-biotics.

Without those two I seem to be good regardless of what I eat.

This has been a bit of a wake up so I will cut back on the bad stuff. I started drinking pop, on a regular basis...I started having my favorite snack, potatoe chips and sweet relish(trust me, its good), we ate a lot more sugar and I was OK until I took the anti-biotics.

I started taking Candex last night and I had to have some carbs this morning. Had a Van's Waffle with Agave with no ill effects.

I'm done with the sugar part, I can skip that but I have to have some sugar. Last year I ended up at the doctor with 2 veins which has calcified. Doctor told me it happens sometimes and it was not a big deal. Gave me some meds and if it didn't clear up they'd just take them out. This happened after I went on a no sugar/flour diet.

Well we went on a cruise a few days after and toward the end we started breaking down a bit and having some dessert, ice cream, even a drink here and there.

Vein issue went away...in a day! Came back and went back on the diet, problem came back. Now I have to have some sugar, usually just whatever comes in most foods is good enough to keep it away.

Doc has no explanation and told me to just eat the minimal sugar needed. Even in the past two days its started to re-surface. Its wild because it will hurt like hell, I'll drink a glass of Pepsi, and in 30 minutes its gone.

I'll try the caprylic along with the Candex. I'm also drinking lemon water now too.

[Juliebove]

Candex worked for me!

[Eric-C]

Candex is it and I'll probably add in the caprylic acid too.

What an amazing difference. After my last glutening I decided no more and we ate strictly at home. We called every single company for every product and unless we got an emphastic YES it went in the trash.

Still had odd issues and I went nuts trying to figure it out. We did buy the Yeast No More diet book which did have a lot of good info and after reading that it mirrored my situation. I gave up gluten and once in a while had a stomach issue.

Sometimes I'd have a stomach issue, other times I had a nerve/insomnia/hypoglycemia issue for a few weeks after. I always attributed it to gluten introduced to an extremely high temp.

Now I can track back to how I felt to what I ate. We used to eat only anti-biotic free but got away from that. As my anti-biotic intake increased, my sugar intake increased, and these problems popped up.

I started the Candex shortly after posting this and it has produced incredible results so far. Since last August I've had some minor vision issues. I was told it was an opthomolic migraine that was flairing up. I always felt a bit conjested and chalked it upto seasonal allergies. After taking the Candex for just three days its gone.

I read how Candida gets in everything if you have leaky gut, and how it causes leaky gut. Then it gets in everything else.

I'll stay on Candex once I finish the treatment.