CSA- Found 3+ Citrobacter braaki, 3+ Citrobacter freundii, 4+ Proteus m irabilis, and Many Yeast

Hi Brenda,

Thank you as always. My doctor still thinks I have candida and that this test did not find it since the test was performed differently.  I will continue on the diet. On this last stool test I got done they found h pylori. I know that many people have this, but don't have any symptoms. My bother actually does research everyday on h pylori , so I understand I should fix it because for certain people with certain immune system markers it can eventually cause stomach cancer or IBD. At least that is what my brother has found with the rats he is working with. To fix this problem they want to put me on 2 antibiotics and a pump hibator. Both of these things are not good for candida and the h pylori  might be resistant to the medicine. There no guarantee that this will actually kill the h pylori and it will probably make things worse for my candida. My brother is suggesting pepto bismol based on his research, but he does not know how much I should be taking or even if it will for sure fix the problem.

I have found a formula called Matula Herbal Formula (www.perfectly-natural-health.com) that says it will kill the h pylori. It is very expensive and I will have to get another stool test again to see if the h pylori is gone, which is money that adds up. Do you have any suggest for h pylori? Have you heard of Matula Formula? My doctor only knows how to cure h pylori through medicine. She say I am welcome to try something else but that she does not know what would help.  I know that this is just a blog and you would need to see me to really help, but I am just curious to know if you have any information to shed some light on this.

Right now I am taking some medicine to kill the parasites :D Thank you for all your help! Thank you for doing the pbs show! You helped me start my journey to fix my health and I will always be in your debt.

God Bless you,

Lauren

Brenda,

I have been on the candida website a lot and I am realizing that many people are taking probiotics without Delayed Release Capsules. I tried to explain this but I think something you wrote or a study would be more compelling to people. Is there a link that you could send me to show people how stomach acid can destroy the probiotics before it get to the digestive tract?

To update you on how I feel, I am very dizzy and extremely exhausted. I have been eating a lot but yet I am still very dizzy. Dizzy enough to feel at time like I might pass out, though this has not happened yet. I don't know if it a dieing off thing or if it is because of the lack of carbs in my diet. I still have not eaten any yet. Last year I passed out a few times and it seems like the symptoms are progressing backwards , so maybe this is just part of the process. I also get an upset stomach sometimes with a list of other alignments. I am hoping these are just part of the process of getting better and not a underline problem to something else.

I got my other stool test back today from Metametrix. However this test did not test for microscopic yeast like the one from Doctor data. In the last stool test I had Many yeast in all three stool samples. In this test that I just got back it says there is no yeast or fungi (at least that is how I am reading it), but it did not do a microscopic yeast.  I see on the doctor data  test that there was a yeast culture and then a microscpoic yeast. What is the difference between these things? Does this mean I solved my yeast issue already? Or does this test not do as a throughal job of finding candida?  If it is gone why do I still have really bad dieing off symptoms?  This test did find some more bacteria (different problems than the bacteria I had originally) and parasites (again this is based on how I am reading it). I will of course be sitting down with my doctor this Tuesday to discuss treatment plan, but I am just kind of confused about the candidia findings.  Any advice or guidance is also greatly appreciated. Thank you for everything :D

God bless,

Lauren

Brenda,

Thank you for your responses. Thank you also for always suggesting a health care practitioner. I know that you honestly just want to help people get better. It not about selling thing for you. I thank you for all the hard work you have done, your amazing books, and that you spend your time talking to people who need advice like me. I greatly appreciate you!

God Bless you

Lauren

Dear Brenda,

Candida website has been very helpful for me in finding recipe, thanks for reccomending it. Thank you also for posting some recipes on the website a while back for candida problems.!  You have been extremely helpful to figure out what I should be doing. While checking out the candida diet website some one mentions that cellulase and hemicellulase are not good while on a Candida diet.They said by ingesting both cellulase and hemicellulase adds to the amount of
sugar that’s available for the Candida, if you also digest fibers such as
vegetable fibers needed by the beneficial flora that hopefully you’re
trying to rebuild. I just wanted to know your thoughts on this.

Thank you always,

Lauren 

Dear Brenda,

I hope your Christmas was good! :) Sorry it has been a while since I updated you. I am seeing another doctor that I got from Phyllis that could get me in right away. She seems better than the last doctor I saw because she knows about the candida diet and has had patients in the past that had candida overgrowth. However based on all my symptoms and how the symptoms slowly moved up my body she thinks something else might be going on in my body, which I agree. She feels it best to check for other problems at the same time as trying to fix the candida issue. Though I have been tested for every infectious disease under the sun, I guess there is one the doctors missed.  I am also getting tested for heavy metals ( to see if some type of metal problem is making it harder for me to heal) and another stools analysis ( to see if I have improve and check for parasite, even though they are hard to find). I am still going to see the other doctor in the summer that I heard good things about. 

I am still on the candida diet. I have not introduced anything back into my diet. I am not even eating brown rice or any gluten free whole grains. Because of this I have lost a lot of weight (which is not a good thing since I was small to begin with) but I found a recipe on thecandidadiet website for coconut bread that people eat when they are losing to much weight on the diet.  The bread is only made from coconut flour, eggs, and olive oil so I don't think there anything wrong with eating it. 

I was wondering if I need to take a break from the cleanse since I have been doing it for three months. I have stopped all my supplements and cleanse for a couple of days to do the stool analysis. Will that be enough of a break before getting on the cleanse again? I still feel very lost because I am doing everything right but not feeling as good as I thought I would. I still have my muscle twitch while on the cleanse. Even things in my head are twitching (like around my ear, chin, eyes, and top of scalp).  I truly wonder sometimes if I will ever get better. But I will never give up trying to get better because doing anything is better than feeling the way I do. I never knew I could be so strong :)

If you have any suggest, I greatly respect you and what you have to say.

God Bless you,

Lauren  

Dear Brenda,

Thanks for responding. I found a doctor in my area that seems very promising based on recommendations and information online. He was one of the doctors from the list Phyllis gave me. My doctor also recommended him a while back. However he does not take any insurance and is VERY expensive and I have to wait until April of next year to see him. So I am going to continue looking for another doctor while I wait for that appointment.

I was wondering what your thoughts are on Three-Lac as a way to kill candida? It a probiotics that I have seen over and over when searching doctors. It supposedly kills candida. Do you know if this product is good?

I am still not eating any grains except an occasional brown rice. I feel better though I am a little discourage because I thought I would feel better than I do and I would be able to reintroduce new food. I am also worried because if I do not take the cleanse my symptoms come back and I know I wont be able to take the cleanse for the rest of my life because that would not be healthy for my body. I am thankful that I feel a little better (all because of you thank you so much), but I am worried about how long it is taking and whether I will have the symptoms come back after the cleanse. I really want to have children one day but I am afraid I wont be able to do so because I may pass my candidia overgrowth to them ( which could lead to autsim or other health issues). I am sorry if I am coming of whinny I just want to voice my concerns. Am I expecting too much too soon in the process?

Also have you heard of The Yeast Infection No More System by Linda Allen?  I feel a little lost just because I seem to not be able to find a doctor to help and when I do it is a very long wait to see him or her.  So I am trying to find something more to help in the mean time.  I also have been told that alkalizing water from the health food store would be helpful since I have been having heartburn. I already take heartburn prevention and aloe vera juice.  Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for all your help and taking your time to write to me.

Thank you and God bless ,

Lauren

Dear Brenda,

Thank you for the number and all your help. I really appreciate all you have done for me. Your advice comes at a great time since I just came back from my gastroenterologist doctors appointment and he was very negative about the CSA and told me any changes I have experience while being on the diet and cleanse is a placebo effect.  I will give Phyllis a call tomorrow! :)

I got my blood analyzed by someone who came into my local health store today. They looked at my blood through a microscope. What the lady saw was a really bad fungal problem. She rated it as a 5 (out of a scale 1 through 5) . She was able to also look at a sample of my blood that she said showed my blood cell from about 90 days ago and there was very little to no fungal shown in my blood (scale 1 to zero).  The only thing I have changed during this time is taking the cleanse, staying on the Candida diet, and taking diflucan so I don't understand why the candida fungal has grown in my blood through this period. Do you know if this is normal? Could it be that the cleanse is pulling out my candida from organs, muscles, and sinuses, and that is why there is candida fungal shown in my blood now and none shown a few months ago? I don't think that makes sense but I don't understand how I have gotten worse. 

What I find weird is that my sinus feel better than they have in probably 2 years and it is better now than a few months ago. Of course I do feel worse at times with headaches and muscle pains but overall I feel a relief of pressure in my sinus and body. She also said that my blood showed some bacteria and a some liver inflammation, but she said that is expected when being on a cleanse. Any ideas about why the increase in candida fungal in my blood? Is there something I should do to help with this?Thank you for making the time for me. :)

Thank you always and God Bless,

Lauren

Dear Brenda,

 My pains in my abdomen are back. It seems to get really bad around the same time every month. I went back to my family physician and told her.  She gave me more antibiotics and fungal medicine. She told me she does not know what to do for me or why I am still having pains. She really does not want to see me again because she cant help. I don't know if I should take the medicine.  She also gave me a number to a holistic doctor in this area that she has heard many good things about though she is not sure if he is taking any new patients and she said he is very expensive and take no insurance.  I will try to make an appointment but the cost is a concern.

I went to the holistic doctor that I found through the website you gave me and I was not impressed by her at all. She did not even give me any solutions about the candida overgrowth. She seemed not to know about the candida diet and when I asked her opinion about the diet she said that the diet cant hurt so I can continue on it if I want. Pretty much her solution to a yeast problem was taking a probiotic (which did not have extended release, nor many strained, and only 30 billion culture) and take a enzyme and fiber (the fiber did not have insoluble). She mentioned I should take an enzyme with EDTA that can break down the bio-film that the yeast creates. I have not heard of this before. What is your suggestion? Though she did suggest retesting my stool. She said that doctor data is a good company but metemetrix clinical lab has shown better results for her patients that doctor data has. Though they only ask for one stool sample. She also said I should change my probiotics because your body can become immune to them. What are your thought on that? When I told this doctor about the problems I have been having she seemed to think there is something else causes my problems. I don't think she thinks the yeast could cause this much issue.

My cleanse is going okay. I feel as if my body is not getting rid of the yeast because I have the same symptoms that recur. For example when I take the cleanse my sinus drain and their is less pressure but then the pressure come back, and then releases when I take the cleanse again. It is like a cycle. My muscles do this also. I can also feel twitching in my digestive tract after taking the cleanse and then I am less bloated. I am still on the diet and only vegetables, meat, and occasional brown rice.

I am wondering if my abdomen pain is from a parasite because it is cyclical and monthly. I also have all the symptoms ( like teeth grinding, dark circle under eyes, etc)  outline in parasite section in you book the road to perfect health. I really have no clue what to do with the pains and diarrhea monthly I get. It seems to be getting worse.  I have no doctors to help me !!! Like I said my family doctor does not want to see me because she does not know what to do. I have a trip planned to go to Florida next summer. I believe this is where you and many of your coworker have offices. If I am still have problems then I would be willing to see anyone to help me while I am on vacation down there. Also if you have any suggestion about finding a good doctor in my area I would be greatly appreciative. 

Thank you again and God bless,

Lauren

Dear Brenda,

Thank you for the reply! I am taking fiber. It is fiber smart from renew life, 4 capsule in the morning with water. However, it contains FOS too.  Since I have a gluten sensitivity I have to take one that is gluten free (plus the diet says no gluten). Should I up my dose of fiber? Do I have to find one with no FOS ? If I do is there one that I can I find that is gluten free and has everything it should have in it? I tried to take the Fiber smart that was in powder form but it was upsetting my stomach and I could not swallow my water with the fiber in it because the taste and thickness  (normal I put it into orange juice but because of the sugar I am no longer drinking it).

I am almost done my first week of candida diet and cleanse. I have been really strict to the diet. I have only eaten meat and vegetables. I find myself feeling hunger. I feel worse at times and better at other times. My nose has become much smaller because it is no longer swollen ( I did not know it was that swollen). I even had to get my glass tightened because they kept falling off my nose. I also been having different muscles twitch and then loosen ( I was experiencing the opposite of the muscle tightening a year ago and went to the doctors and they told me nothing was wrong after months of testing). Also I have been having sharp pain in my face then the muscle relaxes. And also itchy skin and  spells of irritability. My eyes also feel like they are on fire and sometimes have sharp pain. All of this I can handle as long as I am getting better.

I was going to add a few whole grains that are gluten free in my diet this week coming up. Like flax seed cereal with no sugar and almond milk for breakfast. How much grains should I add into my diet? I don't want to screw up all the work I have done so far. It has been really hard for me not to have any grain at all. I have food sensitivities to gluten, dairy, peanut, yeast, and blueberries when I got a blood test done two years ago. At that time I took those foods out of my diet and have continued to. I feel like I should let you know this in case I should be doing something special on the diet because of them or if they help you tell me how long my cleanse and diet should be. Also I don't know how long to be on the diet and the cleanse. I know it is 3 month to a year but how can you tell how long I should be on it.  Can I be on the cleanse more than 3 months?

I have only been doing the cleanse on half does (one pill and 10 drops) because I only weigh 124 pounds and this is my frist cleanse ever. Also I do not want a horrible dying off problem. Should I up my dose? 

I have not told my doctor about the sharp pains. They are still there but not as bad since I have been on the cleanse and I have worked so hard with the cleanse and diet that I don't want to stop it to take more antibiotics. Plus the CSA said calpric acid would help kill one of the bacterias I have and that is an ingredient in the cleanse.

Also can I take my anti- fungal medicine while on the candida cleanse? I am suppose to take 2 a week. 

Thank you again for all your help and replies. Sorry for all the questions. I really don't know what I would do without you. That PBS program, your books, and you have helped me start this process. I just hope I can finish it. Can people get better with as bad overgrowth as me? I hope so. 

God Bless ,

Lauren

Dear Brenda,

Thank you again for responding. I did not get your message until after I was done my antibiotics. So I took 200 billion probiotics of the renew life while taking the antibiotics. Does this mean I need to get more antibiotics? I hope not but I am still having sharp pains in my stomach and I want to get better; so if I need them I would like to know.  Also I know you said that I should only have a small amount of berries. Does that mean that I should not have any grapefruit or granny smith apples even though it says I can for the candida diet? Also I am going on a massage vacations in two week with my mom. However, I will still be on the cleanse at that time. Should I still get a massage even though it will release more toxins into my body? Thank you for all your help. I greatly appreciate it, especially since I have no one else to help me right now. 

God bless,

Lauren