Could this be Candida?

[Guest guest]

>in my opinion yes!!! and diabetics have fungus/yeast this diet is

perfect for all health issues , just putting in my 2 cents take care

love Lilly ps- my moms friend cured her diabetes by going on a simliar

diet to Bees this diet is wonderful love lilly

> I had what I thought was a sinus infection, second

> time in the last three months, so I was again prescribed

> antibiotics. Last time I also had strep throat. The

> antibiotics messed with my digestive tract this time,

> so I stopped after 7 days...then two days later not

> only did my sinuses get worse again but now I had red

> eyes with yellow discharge and vaginal itching burning.

> I an borderline diabetic and have adrenal issues.

>

> Is it possible that this stuff could be Candida,

> including the red eyes?

>

[Guest guest]

>

> I had what I thought was a sinus infection, second

> time in the last three months, so I was again prescribed

> antibiotics. Last time I also had strep throat. The

> antibiotics messed with my digestive tract this time,

> so I stopped after 7 days...then two days later not

> only did my sinuses get worse again but now I had red

> eyes with yellow discharge and vaginal itching burning.

> I an borderline diabetic and have adrenal issues.

>

> Is it possible that this stuff could be Candida,

> including the red eyes?

==>Hi there. Welcome to our group. What is your name? May I ask

that you please put your name at the end of your messages so our

visually impaired member, Maddalena, knows when to stop listening?

Thanks.

==>Sinus infections are misunderstood. The body creates more mucus

in the nose and sinuses to get rid of toxins (it's a healing

process), and antibiotics only suppress the symptoms so they come

back later with a vengence. Natural treatments do not suppress

symptoms but the only cure is curing the candida that causes it.

==>Yes, all of your symptoms are caused by candida and this program

will cure them. Please read my article sent to you when you

joined " How to Successfully Overcome Candida " - or see our group's

Files (left menu); it is in the 1st folder along with the

article " Candida, How to Get Started " . It is very important you read

this article thoroughly so you understand about good and bad foods,

even those that are bad for healthy people, and the steps of the

program. You start on the diet first. Also see the Sinus & Nose

Folder for treatments which will help you be more comfortable while

you are curing your candida. When you've read that article please get

back to us with questions or concerns. We're here to help you.

The best to you, Bee

[Guest guest]

>

> Thanks for the welcome, Bee. My name is Jordan.

> Sorry for not introducing myself in my post.

==>Hi Jordan. Thank you for introducing yourself my friend.

>

> Unfortunately, when I went to urgent care last night

> they started me on another antibiotic. My eyes were

> infected as well as my sinuses and it felt like strep

> coming on again, so I was scared not to take anything.

> Guess I have my work cut out for me now.

==>The antibiotics will make your candida grow more, and they do not

help like natural antibiotics in nature's cupboard. There's so many

things you can do - see our Sinus & Nose Folder. You do not want to

suppress those symptoms. What doctors call infection is scarey, but

it's just symptoms the body creates to deal with toxins, i.e.

inflammation brings more blood to the area to affect healing,

swelling immobilizes the area so the body can deal with it, mucus is

to collect and flush out toxins, etc., etc.

>

> On a good note, I have been watching my diet for the

> last week for carbs, sugars, and yeasty foods and have

> lost 5 lbs. already. Yay!

==>That's wonderful. Well done!

>

> Gonna look for some Coconut Oil now...

==>Okey dokey.

The best in health, Bee

[Guest guest]

I've been reading this board for about a month looking for clues and

ideas to my problem.

I've thought for years that I had reactive hypoglycemia. My only

symptom is that in between meals my brain (thought process) stops

working. I become very zombie like in personality and it could take me

3 times as long to figure out a simple problem. Forget about holding a

conversation with somebody. When I eat a meal I actually become

euphoric and feel great. Slowly I head back to zombie land. Eating

small amounts of food may hold me where I'm at, but won't get me

" high " . I've tried different variations of hypo diets but nothing

seems to work.

The weird part is my blood sugar rarely get s below 80...even when I'm

feeling my worst. I eat and literally 1 minute later I'm feeling

better. My Endo is sure it's not hypo, but some GroupHypo members

think it still could be.

One more thing to add to this is that stress definitely speeds up the

" brain dead " feeling. Sometimes to the point where, in a stressful

situation (like talking to a pretty girl), I can feel myself crashing.

I've been on the hypo board for a year trying different things when I

read about someone who thought he had hypo and turned out he had Candida.

With just the single symptom of becoming " brain dead " , and the fact

that stress speeds up the process, is it possible that I have Candida,

and Candida could be causing my problem?

BTW- I did the spit in the glass test and 75% of my saliva did sink

and/or go stringy.

Any help and guidance would be so appreciated.

Ron

[Guest guest]

Hi Ron,

Welcome to our group. It is very possible you have candida, but even

if you don't this program will greatly improve your health. The

reason is because it builds up the immune system with proper

nutrients so the body can balance and heal itself, and it will cure

blood sugar problems!

The best place to start is by reading my article " How to Successfully

Overcome Candida " so you understand the diet and supplements, why it

builds up the immune system, etc. After running this group for years

I discovered the power of this program to heal the body and that is

why I set up my website this January called " Healing Naturally by

Bee " . Here's the Candida Information:

http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/menu2.php

You might also like to read " Foods that Damage, Foods that Heal "

which helps you understand about why the cells becomes insulin

resistance which is what causes blood sugar problems. Also there is

a connection between Diabetes and Candida which will further explain

about blood sugar - see this article:

http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/diab2.php

The best in health, Bee

>

> I've been reading this board for about a month looking for clues and

> ideas to my problem.

>

> I've thought for years that I had reactive hypoglycemia. My only

> symptom is that in between meals my brain (thought process) stops

> working. I become very zombie like in personality and it could take

me

> 3 times as long to figure out a simple problem. Forget about

holding a

> conversation with somebody. When I eat a meal I actually become

> euphoric and feel great. Slowly I head back to zombie land. Eating

> small amounts of food may hold me where I'm at, but won't get me

> " high " . I've tried different variations of hypo diets but nothing

> seems to work.

>

> The weird part is my blood sugar rarely get s below 80...even when

I'm

> feeling my worst. I eat and literally 1 minute later I'm feeling

> better. My Endo is sure it's not hypo, but some GroupHypo

members

> think it still could be.

>

> One more thing to add to this is that stress definitely speeds up

the

> " brain dead " feeling. Sometimes to the point where, in a stressful

> situation (like talking to a pretty girl), I can feel myself

crashing.

>

> I've been on the hypo board for a year trying different things when

I

> read about someone who thought he had hypo and turned out he had

Candida.

>

> With just the single symptom of becoming " brain dead " , and the fact

> that stress speeds up the process, is it possible that I have

Candida,

> and Candida could be causing my problem?

>

> BTW- I did the spit in the glass test and 75% of my saliva did sink

> and/or go stringy.

>

> Any help and guidance would be so appreciated.

>

> Ron

>

[Guest guest]

Ron... you sound just like me, unfortunately. Curious if you did a lot

of antibiotics when you were younger, or drink/drank a lot of beer????

Doug

[Guest guest]

>

> With just the single symptom of becoming " brain dead " , and the fact

> that stress speeds up the process, is it possible that I have Candida,

> and Candida could be causing my problem?

>

Hey Ron,

My symptoms are mostly brain-related. I am an intelligent person who

just cannot think at times. I go 'into the fog' and don't feel like I

can function. I, too, thought I was hypoglycemic. My blood sugar even

got down to 65 once and I was freaking (but I didn't feel bad.) (I used

to feel best at 110, but now I don't even check it.) The thing is,

since doing Bee's diet, I really haven't experienced the heart-

pounding, shaking, OMG GIVE ME FOOD feeling I felt when on high carbs.

I'm very sensitive, to foods as well. I used to say eating bananas

made me high. I thought it was the potassium. I think now maybe it

was the yeast. So, in answer to your question, I think you can have

brain symptoms as your only symptoms and still have candida. But, I

think once you begin to heal, your gut will have symptoms because the

brain/gut are related. Hope that makes sense.

~Cathe

[Guest guest]

Hi Ron,

I was having what I thought were Hypoglycemia reactions a few months ago.

Here's some info that I recently found about. Idiopathic postprandial

syndrome

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiopathic_post prandial_syndrome

Basically its a type of syndrome where people are experiencing

Hypoglycemic symptoms w/o actually having Hypoglycemia, is states that

the effect those with anxiety issues. Needless to say that this sounds

exactly what I was going through mine being anxiety/panic related.

Not sure if this 'syndrome' related to you at all. Eating food would

not make me feel better all the time. And my BS readings were always

pretty normal too. I have been on the candida diet and it has helped

but dealing with my anxiety was most helpful with my hypoglycemic

symptoms.

>

> I've been reading this board for about a month looking for clues and

> ideas to my problem.

>

> I've thought for years that I had reactive hypoglycemia. My only

> symptom is that in between meals my brain (thought process) stops

> working. I become very zombie like in personality and it could take me

> 3 times as long to figure out a simple problem. Forget about holding a

> conversation with somebody. When I eat a meal I actually become

> euphoric and feel great. Slowly I head back to zombie land. Eating

> small amounts of food may hold me where I'm at, but won't get me

> " high " . I've tried different variations of hypo diets but nothing

> seems to work.

>

> The weird part is my blood sugar rarely get s below 80...even when I'm

> feeling my worst. I eat and literally 1 minute later I'm feeling

> better. My Endo is sure it's not hypo, but some GroupHypo members

> think it still could be.

>

> One more thing to add to this is that stress definitely speeds up the

> " brain dead " feeling. Sometimes to the point where, in a stressful

> situation (like talking to a pretty girl), I can feel myself crashing.

>

> I've been on the hypo board for a year trying different things when I

> read about someone who thought he had hypo and turned out he had

Candida.

>

> With just the single symptom of becoming " brain dead " , and the fact

> that stress speeds up the process, is it possible that I have Candida,

> and Candida could be causing my problem?

>

> BTW- I did the spit in the glass test and 75% of my saliva did sink

> and/or go stringy.

>

> Any help and guidance would be so appreciated.

>

> Ron

>

[Guest guest]

> My only

> symptom is that in between meals my brain (thought process) stops

> working. I become very zombie like in personality and it could take me

> 3 times as long to figure out a simple problem. Forget about holding a

> conversation with somebody. When I eat a meal I actually become

> euphoric and feel great. Slowly I head back to zombie land.

Hi Ron,

This reminded me of some of my own symptoms, and a particular incident

at work some time ago. I'd almost forgotten it until I read your

post. I also was unable to think sometimes, no matter how much I

wanted to or needed to. It was causing me lots of problems in

college, when I just honestly couldn't 'think' in class; I felt like

my brain just quit!

There was a particular incident that happened at work one day - it was

a workshop format (all day) and we were working in small groups. I

was fine that morning, though I drank some of the free coffee when I

arrived (coffee is my weakness). I felt worse and worse as it

approached lunch time, until finally I was no help whatsoever to my

group; my brain had shutdown. I began feeling desperate to be

released for lunch; I was shaking and I felt extremely irritable about

being kept past the scheduled lunch break. I wondered why everyone

else didn't seem to be feeling as bad as me - why wasn't everyone

desperate for lunch? Finally, we went to lunch and I came back

refreshed for the afternoon activities. But then I was back in the

same situation by the end of the day and couldn't wait to be released

for the day!

My friend/co-worker had watched me that day and said I was

hypoglycemic. She saw me fading as the morning went on, and then the

same thing repeated in the afternoon. I suggested it was my coffee

habit - that I was coming down from the caffeine. But she said it was

more extreme than than. Her boss (different than my boss) had been

diagnosed hypoglycemic after actually passing out at work one day. My

friend said I looked the same way her boss looks when her blood sugar

drops.

I'd nearly forgotten the whole thing. It was shortly afterwards I

found Bee's group and started taking little amounts of coconut oil and

butter all during the day. The other symptoms I had troubled me more

than the hypoglycemia thing - I was having A LOT of joint & muscle

pain, so much that it kept me up at night sometimes. I was more

immediately concerned with the pain more than the brain fog. So yes,

I guess this program helped the hypoglycemia. Whenever I fall off the

wagon (several times), it's the pain that comes back right away. I

haven't noticed the brain fog much anymore. There was a day at work

about a month ago when I felt a little spacey, but not as bad as

before. I keep slipping up with the coffee (at least I finally broke

the cream habit and went to black coffee only) - I believe the

caffeine let-down adversely affects mental performance. I just quit

coffee again last week for the umpteenth time I don't think your

post mentioned whether you use caffeine.

Hope this helps. Good luck on this program.

in Tennessee

[Guest guest]

>

> Ron... you sound just like me, unfortunately. Curious if you did a lot

> of antibiotics when you were younger, or drink/drank a lot of beer????

>

> Doug

>

Hi Doug,

Not sure about the antibiotics. I wasn't sick very often as a child so

probably not. Beer though...yes! I was always a big beer drinker. I

still drink beer now, but not nearly as much. Usually just a margarita

night cap and a few beers a week.

Do you have the exact same symptoms as me or do you have additional

ones as well. How long have you had them and has anything helped you.

More questions too...How about the stress thing, does that affect you

too. Does the eating bring you to a high point?

I've never met a person with similar symptoms so I'd love to here more

about you, and anybody else with similar syptoms.

Thank you all for your responses so far.

Ron

[Guest guest]

Thanks for the reply, .

Can you tell me how you are dealing with the anxiety part of your

problem? Are you taking any meds for it? What type of Dr diagnosed you

and is helping you.

I believe stress/anxiety may be the main culprit with me as well.

I had trouble with your link about prandial_syndrome. Do you have

another link I can use to read up on about what you mentioned?

Sorry to be all over the place, It's meal time.

Thanks,

Ron

> >

> > I've been reading this board for about a month looking for clues and

> > ideas to my problem.

> >

> > I've thought for years that I had reactive hypoglycemia. My only

> > symptom is that in between meals my brain (thought process) stops

> > working. I become very zombie like in personality and it could take me

> > 3 times as long to figure out a simple problem. Forget about holding a

> > conversation with somebody. When I eat a meal I actually become

> > euphoric and feel great. Slowly I head back to zombie land. Eating

> > small amounts of food may hold me where I'm at, but won't get me

> > " high " . I've tried different variations of hypo diets but nothing

> > seems to work.

> >

> > The weird part is my blood sugar rarely get s below 80...even when I'm

> > feeling my worst. I eat and literally 1 minute later I'm feeling

> > better. My Endo is sure it's not hypo, but some GroupHypo members

> > think it still could be.

> >

> > One more thing to add to this is that stress definitely speeds up the

> > " brain dead " feeling. Sometimes to the point where, in a stressful

> > situation (like talking to a pretty girl), I can feel myself crashing.

> >

> > I've been on the hypo board for a year trying different things when I

> > read about someone who thought he had hypo and turned out he had

> Candida.

> >

> > With just the single symptom of becoming " brain dead " , and the fact

> > that stress speeds up the process, is it possible that I have Candida,

> > and Candida could be causing my problem?

> >

> > BTW- I did the spit in the glass test and 75% of my saliva did sink

> > and/or go stringy.

> >

> > Any help and guidance would be so appreciated.

> >

> > Ron

> >

>

[Guest guest]

>

> Thanks for the reply, .

>

> Can you tell me how you are dealing with the anxiety part of your

> problem? Are you taking any meds for it? What type of Dr diagnosed

you

> and is helping you.

>

> I believe stress/anxiety may be the main culprit with me as well.

>

> I had trouble with your link about prandial_syndrome. Do you have

> another link I can use to read up on about what you mentioned?

>

> Sorry to be all over the place, It's meal time.

>

==>Ron, see this article on anxiety and depression:

http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/treat6.php

Also toxins will cause a lot of anxiety and depression, particularly

drugs which are poisonous to the body, and for candida sufferers the

toxins will also be from candida.

Bee

[Guest guest]

Hi Ron,

Here's the link again - I think it was broken.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiopathic_post prandial_syndrome

Long story short...Last Aug. I started to get (out of the blue) major

hypoglycemic crashes. I had always been a bit 'hypo'in the past but I

would just eat something and I would always feel better. These crashes

were just awful and my husband thought I was just having a panic

attack. I did not believe him because they felt just like a a 'hypo'

crash that I had many times before. Well they got worse and more

often. Ended up in ER and they said nothing was wrong. I was still

convinced that it was somehow blood sugar related. So I went to

several different doctors - from GP to endocrinologists. Two said to

me that it was anxiety but I did not believe them. Still thinking BS

problems,I started a strict 'hypo' diet. I cut out everything cold

turkey and boy did I suffer.

For the first time, I had depression plus still having major panic

attacks which I thought were 'hypo' crashes. I did not want to go on

any anti- anxiety/depression meds either. I decided to go to a CBT

counselor and that helped but only a bit. I tried everything too,

meditation, herbs, teas, books, diet and breathing - nothing gave me

any relief.

Two months later, not feeling any better, I found a ND who immediately

said that I had Candida. He put me on vitamin IV drips, nystatin and

colonics. I started to feel better and sought out help on the various

candida/hypo/anxiety boards and that is how I ended up here doing

Bee's plan. My anxiety started to disappear and the depression was

gone. But that was short-lived.

I was still suffering from panic attacks and did not realize how badly

this was affecting me and my body...making me feel so sick. I was

dizzy all the time, fatigued, afraid and feeling starving hungry all

the time. At one point I was eating every two hours because I was

having 'attacks' which are now believe were panic attacks NOT 'hypo'

attacks.

In the end the only thing that helped me was that I belonged to a

group called www.panicend.com and although I had been talking to

others about it on the message boards, it wasn't until I bought & read

book called 'Hope & Help for Your Nerves' by Dr. Weekes that it

all made sense to me. The guy who started this web group based his

help on her ideas. Almost as soon as I read this book, I was feeling

100% better. Now as I feel better, I realize just how messed up

anxiety can get you. My cortisol levels had gone up and adrenal

fatigue was the next thing if I did not get this under control.

I was amazed too that even though I was on this 'perfect diet', I

still was not feeling any better. I think I am proof that although the

two can be related, in my case, when I got my anxiety under control my

fatigue went away and so did the panic attacks. Some people suffer for

years with panic attacks - I cannot imagine. I still think I have

Candida as I was getting UTI's all the time and taking antibiotics for

them. Plus I was on birth control pills for several years. I would

take Candida over anxiety any day now that I have had both. Don't

underestimate stress/anxiety like I did. It can sneak up on you and

cause all sorts of problems. You naturally will feel even more stress

when you have another condition too. I was obsessed with finding out

why I was 'sick' that I made myself more stressed.

Sorry - this was supposed to be short!

>

> Thanks for the reply, .

>

> Can you tell me how you are dealing with the anxiety part of your

> problem? Are you taking any meds for it? What type of Dr diagnosed you

> and is helping you.

>

> I believe stress/anxiety may be the main culprit with me as well.

>

> I had trouble with your link about prandial_syndrome. Do you have

> another link I can use to read up on about what you mentioned?

>

> Sorry to be all over the place, It's meal time.

>

> Thanks,

> Ron

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Ron... you're going to have to lose the beer, unfortunately... if

you want to get better. I haven't had a beer in almost 4 months.

During the 1990's, I drank about a 6-pack per day. I quit in 2001

the first time I tried a candida diet for 5 months. Last year, I

drank some in the summer... just as the summer before. I was just

beginning to form another habit when I decided to quit in November

and give Bee's program a go. I have many symptoms when I drink that

are unmistakenly Candida.

When I was younger, I had severe anxiety attacks. I don't know your

age, but my theory is that the anxiety is a progression of candida,

as it enters your brain.

Now, I cannot handle stress at all. Never could really... which is

probably one of the reasons I drank beer! Also, I believe the

candida DEMANDS the beer, because it's a great food source for the

yeast.

I'm now 40 years old. I've had classic candida symptoms my whole

life. (Chronic ear infections as a baby. Hyperactivity/acting up in

elementary school. Allergies/chronic sinusitis elementary/junior

high. Substance abuse/anxiety late high school/college. ETc...)

How old are you, what are your symptoms, and how long have you had

them?

Doug

> >

> Hi Doug,

>

> Not sure about the antibiotics. I wasn't sick very often as a child

so

> probably not. Beer though...yes! I was always a big beer drinker. I

> still drink beer now, but not nearly as much. Usually just a

margarita

> night cap and a few beers a week.

> Do you have the exact same symptoms as me or do you have additional

> ones as well. How long have you had them and has anything helped

you.

> More questions too...How about the stress thing, does that affect

you

> too. Does the eating bring you to a high point?

>

> I've never met a person with similar symptoms so I'd love to here

more

> about you, and anybody else with similar syptoms.

>

> Thank you all for your responses so far.

>

> Ron

>

[Guest guest]

Clock, bowel irritation can be a symptom of bad bowel ecology, called

dysbiosis, of which candida can play a part AFTER the dysbiosis has

been chronic for awhile. Many of the bad organisms cause irritation,

and when you control their numbers you're actually controlling bowel

candida as well. If the yeast test is positive he has dysbiosis for

sure because it's a prerequisite for candida, and if the test is

negative for candida he probably has dysbiosis anyway because the main

symptom is the irritation you mentioned.

More on the subject appears in my inulin references:

http://tinyurl.com/inulins

I would recommend other sources of information besides Rubin, and I

recommend against his Primal Defense formula because it contains a

bacteria that is known to be associated with cancer.

Duncan

>

> 3 weeks ago my husbands intestines started to hurt. Is this a sign

of

> candida? We are awaiting the results from his yeast test, but it

will

> still take 2 weeks to get, and I can't stand seeing him in

discomfort

> for 2 more weeks. It is not stomach pain, it's lower in his tummy.

He

> think it might be yeast b/c it started the day he ate lots of bread

and

> potato. Right now he is following the program in the 'restoring your

> digestive health' by Jordan Rubin book.

>

[Guest guest]

Good Day

I’ve been getting the same pains now and then and on the same spot, you get

the pains at the bottom of you’re tummy which I couldn’t understand until

this e-mail.

_____

From: candidiasis [mailto:candidiasis ] On

Behalf Of Duncan Crow

Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 6:11 AM

candidiasis

Subject: Re: Could this be candida?

Clock, bowel irritation can be a symptom of bad bowel ecology, called

dysbiosis, of which candida can play a part AFTER the dysbiosis has

been chronic for awhile. Many of the bad organisms cause irritation,

and when you control their numbers you're actually controlling bowel

candida as well. If the yeast test is positive he has dysbiosis for

sure because it's a prerequisite for candida, and if the test is

negative for candida he probably has dysbiosis anyway because the main

symptom is the irritation you mentioned.

More on the subject appears in my inulin references:

HYPERLINK " http://tinyurl.com/inulins " http://tinyurl.-com/inulins

I would recommend other sources of information besides Rubin, and I

recommend against his Primal Defense formula because it contains a

bacteria that is known to be associated with cancer.

Duncan

>

> 3 weeks ago my husbands intestines started to hurt. Is this a sign

of

> candida? We are awaiting the results from his yeast test, but it

will

> still take 2 weeks to get, and I can't stand seeing him in

discomfort

> for 2 more weeks. It is not stomach pain, it's lower in his tummy.

He

> think it might be yeast b/c it started the day he ate lots of bread

and

> potato. Right now he is following the program in the 'restoring your

> digestive health' by Jordan Rubin book.

>

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