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Originally Posted by sapphire_chan  Awesome! Er, the information I mean. 
Has it cleared up your yeast yet?
Since it was all internal (except for the itchy butt when it got bad) what cued you in what was going on?
What sort of changes did you notice as you switched to the diet?
(I'm sooo bad at sugar free. Thank goodness I've got xylitol and am used to a high fiber diet.) |
Lol.
Honestly, I don't think the yeast will ever completely go away. It's more of something that's controlled through starving it. There's always the potential for it "rethrive".
But, as long as I keep as much yeasty stuff out of my diet as possible I feel awesome. I can tell when I've overdone it and the yeast starts re-thirving...I get minor die off sympstoms all over again.
It wasn't any one thing that clued me in. I was having a whole lot of symptoms that the doctor couldn't pin-point to any one thing, but all were related to candida overgrowth. The candida diet was a last ditch effort to try something natural. My doctor thought I was a little nuts at first when I told her that symptoms started magically disappearing after my initial die-off symptoms subsided.
I'd been on antibiotics and birth control for AGES so I knew that could be a contributor.
As I changed my diet (zero sugar was my first major change) I noticed my skin was more hydrated, my bloating/gassiness went away, no more cracked heels, more energy in the morning, less fogginess, my depressive mood lightened, my blood pressure went back down (i was hypertensive)
The biggest thing was that my weight started going down. I hadn't been able to drop any of my pregnancy weight (my son is 5!!) despite running 20 miles a week and eating calorically correct. I've lost 25 pounds since mid-feb.
Now, I know the first inclination for most people is "well, yeah. you make a major diet change then your whole life will change" and I agree. But the fact that I had severe die off symptoms and can literally feel the symptoms return if I eat sugar or get too much carby stuff in my diet has me sold that it was truly candida.
My initially die off lasted about two and half weeks. Mostly the itchy arms/hands and headaches.
So, that's pretty much the basics of my story.
I still get flak for believing all my symptoms were due to candida, but, as the saying goes: You may think there's no such thing as reindeeer, but me and gradma, we believe!
: that these horrible hay fever symptoms that don't respond to allergy medication are the start of die off.
