Candida Cleanse. August 24, 2009

I have not felt well in a very long time. It came to a head this past month as I could barely get out of bed, and my tongue became covered with a heavy layer of white film - Thrust. After going to my doctor and having a comprehensive workup in which the only obvious thing was that I am a bit anemic, I began to research Thrush - and thus Candida - online.

What I realized is that I have a systematic yeast imbalance in my body due to longterm intense stress and a diet of periodic sugar overload. I'm not proud of the second part of this, but it's true and the only way to heal is to fess up and get on with the plan.

I've been doing a Candida Diet and protocol to erradicate the excess Candida from my system for the past 10 days. I have felt terrible the whole time. Thanks to what I have read on the internet, I understand that this is the process called 'die-off'.

I decided to begin this blog for two reasons:
1) I would have been grateful to find a blog like this where someone walks me through their experience as this is a very challenging process for me.
2) I believe it will be good for me to have a place to come and chronicle my progress.

I fully expect to follow through with this and embody vibrant and radiant health in just a matter of time now. Right now I am so dizzy that I am housebound. I'm achy and fatigued, fuzzy headed, dry-mouthed and still have a white tongue (althought that has improved somewhat over the past ten days, as have the other symptoms). At the beginning I was so ill I didn't see how I would make it through. I almost went to the emergency room one night, but waited and saw my doctor the next day instead. She supports the protocol I'm on. She could put me on Nystatin, but since I'm getting slowly better, she says that I'm doing a good job with the natural nati-fungals.

I will have to take a break now because of the light headedness, but I will come back to fill in the dtails. Then I plan to blog a bout my progress in an ongoing basis.

Here's to vibrant and radiant health!!