i was doing the candida diet back in may, i stop taking every thing in the end of july, by the weekend of that week, i develope a white tongue, i was losing weight and wanted to see if i can gain weight by eating cake, i did eat cake everyday straight for that week, i cain 2 pounds, and a white tongue, im going to a holistic doctor today, july 31, 09, does these dr, really help you.

i return taking nystatin, and grapefruit seed extract. im having diarrea, and my digstive sysem is shot, im seeing my food in my stool. my question, im i starting over from the beginning. this is bad, i regret what i did, i would have been 3 months into recovery if i had stick to the candida program. help......thanks

I would bring the Specific Carbohydrate Diet to your attention, www.pecanbread.com is a good start and the book Breaking the Vicious Cycle by Elaine Gotschall. It started out as being helpful for her daughter with ulcerative colitis, but turned out to be helpful for a lot of things. I personally did not figure out how to do it for more than a week without problems, but I also found the core information useful. For Candida, best thing I know of is New Chapter Candida Take Care. Most expensive too. Other things I have tried with varying results are food grade hydrogen peroxide (yucky but uniquely effective), GSE (yucky but strangely mixed with peroxide reduces the bad flavor of both strangely), garlic (effective, cheap, stinky), basil (ok, cheap, very non habit forming also to take plain), Pascalite medicinal clay (pretty good, I would recommend but be ready for stronger die off than others), kolorex (subtle at best, but maybe does something I don't detect), good enzymes (I found 2 brands that I like out of the ones I tried) home made yogurt, instructions in the book mentioned, lots of other things. I still live reasonably sugar free, a binge every week, or less now. Gluten free is hard but removes sugar cravings for some reason for me and lets me sleep a little better at night. I have a doctor that I thought could help, but being off network, I couldn't afford his tests directly. Pursuing his instinct of thyroid/adrenal has been helpful at a symptom level. Anything my insurance has been willing to pay for has not been helpful at all. I haven't taken any anti-Candida stuff for a week or two, mild symptoms come back, but you can imagine everything I mentioned is, well, icky, the ones that aren't are expensive... I still have one or two specific carbohydrate compliant meals per day.

To change channels, lemon balm is my latest discovery, seems to not be popular but my neighbor is growing it. I sleep better, like I never had a good night's sleep in my life until I drank tea made with the whole stalk of plant she gave me. A good night's sleep, waking up feeling rested, mixed with Valerian as a night drink, or without Valerian and a little orange juice during the day, most restorative thing I personally have tried in decades and that list is far too long to put here. That alone gives me a little more fight against the Candida symptoms and I get more done in a day besides. Hang in there. Candida is a tough one, but it has to be won.