Candida - Experiment Time

The most frustrating thing about both endo and candidiasis is that no one believes you; either that you could be in that much pain or that it’s really your problem. Consequently, you are generally dismissed by western medicine as a hopeless case or worse, non-existent. With endo, I was overmedicated yet undertreated for my pain. Doctors refused to believe that endo was causing that much pain - guess what assholes, it did. With Candida, western medicine claims that only people who are immune compromised, like cancer and AIDS patients, suffer from systemic Candida - wrong again, those are the people that die from it. I’m lucky that I am healthy enough that my immune system can fight off the candida, but boy is it a battle. They say that Candida is one step away from cancer because the body is imbalanced, and your immune system is already taxed full time fighting the Candida setting up the perfect environment for malignant cells to root and proliferate; for this reason it is important to treat Candida even though you will not be able to get a diagnosis from Western medicine. Alternative practitioners will diagnose Candida but if you want pharmaceuticals you need to see someone in integrative medicine who can prescribe FDA regulated anti-fungals like Nystatin or Diflucan.

Which brings me to my latest adventure with Candida. At Thanksgiving, my brother’s father in (common) law strongly recommended I try Diflucan. So I did some more research and eventually found an alternative medicine doctor in Northern Virginia who believes in prescribing Diflucan for systemic candida. It’s actually on his website. But he doesn’t take insurance and I can’t afford the retarded amounts he charges. So scratch that. Thankfully, I’d been having recurring yeast infections. (Honestly, who would have thought I’d be thankful for having yeast infections to treat systemic Candida?) So my gynecologist was nice enough to prescribe seven days of tasty Diflucan. Now, I’m not sure if seven days are enough, most protocls I've read suggest 1 month, so I was able to obtain an additional 2 weeks. This is kind of an experiment for me.

Of course, my family (except my loving brother and step-mom) doesn’t approve of my bastardized self-medication. But fuck that. I’d refer them back to the first paragraph where no one believes you’re (a) in that much pain or (b) can’t suffer from candida overgrowth without being immune system compromised. I’m tired of that shit. So I’m trying something new. I’ll write on future developments.