Re: Lost another food/Diflucan/detox

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Kim,

"That may still be too much of a repetition for your digestion. "

You may be on target, and I certainly consider that. But I have 4 protein, 3 vegetables, 0 fruit, 0 dairy, 0 nuts, 0 eggs to work with. With that kind of math, my choice is to eat the same several things every day, or limit the protein/veg choice to one option per day. The math is working against me here---lol.

It's an interesting thought: should one limit amount of exposure per day or duration of exposure ? Right now I'm picking duration of exposure so that there are more than 3 (was 4) days between exposure. One of my main goals in life right now is to be my list of foods up to 12.

Are you getting immune system responses like hives and respiratory distress? Or are you getting digestive symptoms? Or both?

My symptoms are all GI--for what I'm intolerant to, it's pain, weight loss and increasing C if I keep it up. It could get to C & D if I keep eating it, but I've learned the signs before I get that far. I can literally feel the food hit my stomach and work its way through my GI tract. It's a slow burn.

While you're on DIflucan you can expect very little tolerance for anything -- in other words, your body will be sensitive to everything.

I don't think I've heard that before. I had about 2 days of mild Herx when I first took it, and nothing obvious since then. Liver enzymes fine, no D, and BMs have been better. I've been on it 6+ months and my GI thinks I should continue and doubled my dose about 2 months ago. I have had good and one great period since than, so I couldn't tell any negative difference from that alone.

He does think that all my symptoms are from acetylaldehyde because when I flare I feel inflamed, although I have no evidence of classic inflammatory processes like UC and Crohn's.

About 6 weeks ago I tried garlic again since Kyolic came out with a safe one. By the time I titrated up to 1 capsule per day, I had the classic Herx reactions. I decided to tough it out, because I was delighted there was *some* sign the yeast was getting killed ! Once the detox signs were over, I felt great for about a week, for a few days the best I've felt in years !!

So killing the yeast or yeast/bacteria in there did, once the initial detox was over, make me feel much better. I decreased my urine output, adrenals/energy was great, no GI pain, I felt a strange feeling called Normal !

When this happened I did call my GI docs office and say I wanted to get off the Diflucan and just rotate in the garlic right now since it obviously was so effective. He said only if I was willing to take Candicin (a. illegals, b. has 12+ ingredients, I refuse to do anything with that many ingredients, who would know what a reaction was from?). I think I'll follow my gut (sorry, some puns can't be helped), and your idea about the Diflucan and decrease it or stop it until my next appt in 3 weeks. That way by then either the doctor or I will get to say, "see I told you so" :-)

Are you pushing the probiotics? You'll need to push L. Acidophilus or S. Boulardii to rebalance your gut ecology.

I'm up to 4 of the Scdophilus per day. Can't do S. Boulardii since I show a strong histamine/allergic response to all yeasts.

I just finished with a year of Hydrocortisone after a very slow taper. Perhaps more things are getting killed now that I'm off.

Thanks so much for thinking out loud with me. I now have a great team of folks helping me but still have to be a detective about all this, having you and everyone on the 2 lists are so helpful.

Sue R

aka Sherlock :-)