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  1. Flor
    Hi all, I wanted to put an update here and to hear from other folks who have been following the LOD. I've learned a few things in the past month (and am at about month 5 on the LOD): 1. The candida piece had to be dealt with head-on in my case. Some people report yeast issues clearning up on the LOD on their own. But I'm a month into a strict anti...
  2. Flor
    The hard avocados are the best to buy -- they really don't take that long to ripen. The overripe ones are gross. I used to melt some sliced manchego cheese on a rice cake and then slice the avo on top and salt and pepper. But I'm not eating rice cakes right now -- just to keep the starch down. So I'm having a few very thin rice crackers (I forget the...
  3. Flor
    I like to read reports of people who are feeling better finally! Thank you for posting! I'm about a year into eliminating all the problematic foods, but it feels like steady progress has only been in the last four to six months, after removing nightshades, oxalates, corn, and yeast-friendly foods (that one less than a month ago). I'm 43 and have been...
  4. Flor
    I'm a big snacker/grazer. I eat small amounts nearly all day long, though not anything from about 7:30 pm to about 11am the next morning. Here are things I snack on...hopefully some of it will be edible to some of you! Avocado with rice crackers Oatmeal (gluten-free) with butter and salt and flax seeds 1 Van's gluten-free waffle (this waffle and...
  5. Flor
    Hey everyone, I'm feeling much better too. The bad moods and the nausea have passed and the gas and bloating are gone, and things seems to be moving, neither "D" nor "C" for the first time in I can't remember when. I got activated charcoal at the drug store yesterday and have had two rounds of it. I do think it helps! I cheated last night and had...
  6. Flor
    Okay, charcoal! I wanna try it! Where do you all get it, in what form? Brand? After two years of chronic diarrhea, I'm having the other problem -- I'm not sure the fiber is helping move things through enough. What do you all take to keep things moving? I hate the feeling that all this stuff in me is dying and releasing toxins and then...just sitting there...
  7. Flor
    I've been doing bentonite instead of charcoal (it's at the health food store as Sonne #7). I take it with the flax/oat bran/acacia fiber I'm doing. I'm trying to reproduce what's recommended on the Open Original Shared Link site. They do caprylic acid (suspended in safflower oil, which I couldn't find), psyllium (which I can't take because it causes so...
  8. Flor
    Let's hear it for finding joy wherever it may be! (because it sure ain't in the eating right now!). I get a lot of joy out of watching my almost-four-year-old play (and sleep!). And I get a lot of distraction out of knitting. There's some balance in there between getting support and helpful information on the 'puter and getting depressed by being surrounded...
  9. Flor
    Hey you all, I don't want to make any grand predictions, but I felt better today -- less nausea, more energy. My mouth is dry ALL the time, no matter how much water I drink (and it's a LOT) -- you all having that too? I do think the lemon helps with nausea. Better than that though is ginger. I read some stuff last night about the die-off symptoms...
  10. Flor
    Well, this is reassuring to hear (I think?) that you all have dealt with nausea too on this diet. I thought about my liver as well -- I've been taking milk thistle and red clover tea for liver tonic -- maybe it's under a load from processing toxins? I'll go poke around on google and see what I can find out about yeast die-off symptoms. The nausea is...
  11. Flor
    Hey you guys, I've been dealing with a fair amount of nausea in the last week -- it's been about two weeks on the candida diet now. It seems better when I eat, but it's like morning sickness (and no, I'm not pregnant!) in that the nausea only subsides literally while I'm eating. You all having anything like this? Nausea is not normally a GI symptom...
  12. Flor
    Just FYI, over on in the low oxalate world, we don't take much Vit C because it is very high oxalate and can be further damaging to the gut in high doses. 250 mg/day is okay, but I think that Emergen-C stuff is 1,000 mg. I'd go easy on it. There are other anti-oxidants -- like E and A and Coenzyme Q10 that can be substituted. Okay, well, I'm at about day...
  13. Flor
    Thanks for the info, April. Where's that from? I KNOW I should probably go get a colonic, but I cannot for the life of me imagine even getting near it. It sound APPALLING and AWFUL. But of course what's going on inside of me is probably even more appalling and awful. I do feel like fiber tends to just puff me up. But stuff isn't moving through like...
  14. Flor
    I just looked at the WholeApproach website -- April, are you doing their whole thing? They have a pretty long argument about why we should be taking Caprol instead of caprylic acid in pill form -- about the safflower oil keeping the caprylic acid in contact with the intestines and not forcing the liver to metabolize the caprylic acid too quickly. The...
  15. Flor
    Hi you all. I'm finding after dinner to be the hardest time to do without sweets or starches. I have to take myself upstairs away from the kitchen because the temptation is too strong. I'll have to get some activated charcoal and raw garlic. And will go look at that wholeapproach website, April. Thanks for the ideas. I felt nauseated for two days...
  16. Flor
    Thanks for posting April. I hope you'll check in on us every once in awhile! Your experience is so valuable. What are you doing now that you're past your nightmare chelation experience? Are you doing it again under a doctor's care? For those of you taking enzymes, what kind are you taking? For those of you taking garlic, what kind do you take (if...
  17. Flor
    Hey you guys, I just wanted to throw in on the vaccine discussion -- we got pretty deep into this with our son (who is almost four now). There's a ton of information and mis-information out there and it's tough wading through it. With any kid who seems immune-compromised, I'd want to see a DAN! doctor for advice about this. There are so many...
  18. Flor
    Hi you all! I'm grateful for this thread. I agree that the candida diet is the hardest of all. Life without sugar and alcohol is pretty tough. I was never a big drinker, but the occasional glass of red wine did wonders for me. And let's don't even talk about chocolate and cookies -- which used to be my main afternoon survival mechanism. Thank you for...
  19. Flor
    Donna, I noticed just today that I can actually SMELL the mold in the cashew butter I have. I eat the occasional few nuts, but I can't tolerate the nut butters or very many nuts. This could be pure delusion, but I feel like stopping sugar has sharpened my senses, nose and eyes. Things feel a little clearer. Anyway, I'd never noticed that smell before...
  20. Flor
    Oh good for you guys! I'm glad you started this thread! For me, I think the candida diet is my Final Frontier! (at least I hope so!). My gut journey started two years ago, eliminating in this order: dairy, gluten, soy, beef/pork, nightshade vegetables, high oxalate foods, and most recently corn. I've read some that corn is often a problem for leaky...
  21. Flor
    Oh duh, sorry, that should have read: what is an LLMD and ART?
  22. Flor
    Oh my god! about the tapeworm! Alien invasion! I looked at the long list of herbs in Humaworm and it scared me a little. So much stuff in there! Did it work for the tapeworm? I'm taking a lot of what's in humaworm already and sometimes I think it's making me nauseated so I cut back. I'm just a week onto the strict anti-candida diet and the anti...
  23. Flor
    April, On the vaccine exemption, we just went through this here with my son, 3 years old. We live in SC but found a more wholistic MD in Asheville, NC, just up the road and got a medical exemption. In SC, it's also either medical or religious and the religious one can be iffy to get because you have to say certain things in person to a state official that...
  24. Flor
    Phew, this is a lot to keep up with! A couple of things I wanted to follow up with... 1. What's humaworm and what's it for? 2. Rachel, are you able to find out as you go along whether the chelation you are doing is pulling mercury out of you -- to know how well it's working? Is chelation the only way we have to get mercury out of our bodies? ...
  25. Flor
    Hey everyone, thank you SO much for reading all that stuff I wrote and for responding so thoughtfully! There's a ton of good suggestions in there. I need to learn more about supporting the liver. When I was in my twenties I saw many acupuncurists to deal with horrible menstrual cramps (which I don't have since my son was born) and the diagnosis was always...
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