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Is My Sore Tongue Candida?

By tdomf_1ebe2, 13 July, 2010, 2 Comments

I’ve always been healthy in my 51 years, and 15 lbs underweight for my height. I moved to Japan (from the USA) about a year ago and after three months of living here, I noticed a sore tongue (and occasionally achy knees), especially when eating acidic foods (a piece of pineapple put me on the roof!) or after drinking alcoholic beverages.

A dentist gave me some ointment but it didn’t help, doctors are puzzled, and their pills haven’t helped either.

In my internet research I’ve read that others have suffered when changing their living environments, and hence, diets. Unfortunately the Japanese staples, miso, tofu, soy sauce and white rice are Candida-boosters. Nine months now and it’s time to try a strict diet, but eating out in Tokyo has been a deal-breaker.

-Joe

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By tdomf_1ebe2, 15 April, 2010, 3 Comments

In September 09 , I fell ill suddenly and was brought to hospital. I experienced a severe blotchy, raised rash on my arms, legs and stomach. I had an extremely high temperature, low blood pressure, a urinary tract infection, severe joint pain to the point I couldn’t move my arms or legs at some stages, swelling of my joints, strep-throat, complete loss of appetite and abdominal pain.

I spent 3 weeks in hospital where the doctors couldn’t figure out what was wrong with me and carried out test after test, giving me all sorts of medication that only made the condition worse. As I was let home, the sickness persisted and I was housebound for a month afterwards . Eventually when I was sick and tired of getting no results from doctors treatment, I went to the integrated center of medicine in Naas, Dublin. There having undergone some tests , the doctor was able to tell me I had leaky gut syndrome and a very bad candida infection in my blood.

I was given a candida diet plan that wasn’t easy to follow

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By admin, 2 March, 2010, 2 Comments

candida-albicansAt the age of 15 I began to get chronic urinary tract infections, vaginal yeast infections, and bacterial vaginosis. My parents dragged me from doctor to doctor desperately seeking a cure for my problems, but our concerns fell on deaf ears and we were usually sent on our way with the usual 7 – 10 courses of antibiotics and/or anti-fungal medications.

Usually, for about a week or two after I had taken the prescribed medication, I would feel better but without fail my symptoms would return with a vengeance. I would usually just ignore the discomfort and try to make it a few months due to my reluctance to explain my symptoms to yet another doctor and in turn, just have my explanation belittled. It was very frustrating.

The teenage years are difficult to begin with and my physical problems just made things that much more difficult. I guess in a way feeling that uncomfortable with myself all of the time, kept me away from boys and caused me to focus on my school work and sports. I was a pretty hardworking kid and eventually went off to college to continue to succeed.

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