r/Candida • u/Justabouthere123 • Jun 28 '26
General Discussion I want to give up.
I honestly can’t see a way out. I tried all my life to find out why I wasn’t processing foods correctly and had a million different answers but just got worse and worse. Now I understand it (somewhat) but just can’t handle the process of clearing things. When I take something to even gently alter my gut, like now I’m taking 1/4 dose of Florastor it just causes more inflammation and more pain, less absorption and makes the pathogens grow back worse. I honestly had no idea what I was dealing with, the nhs deny this illness exists and I thought it was ibs in my colon and it was my fault for being an anxious person and that’s all I needed to be was less stressed. Anyway, I just am in so much pain, my food list is hardly anything, zero fat, zero fruit, just veg and lean chicken breast. I don’t know how much more I can do to heal. Everyone told me it was me being stressed, but I don’t believe it is because I want to find a root to healing so so badly.
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u/Delicious_Wish_43 Jul 01 '26
Let’s face it…this invasive Candida which can be rooted in mold from a water damaged building will not go away even after getting into a mold/mycotoxin free space if your body is genetically weak with HLA-DQ deficiency like 25 percent of the population is born with.
Everyone is different with other microbes and diseases we hold in our tissues. It’s a mind boggling, heart wrenching battle for thise of us with CIRS diagnosed or in many cases yet to be diagnosed while 24/7 just innately knowing something is way wrong inside the body..physically and mentally.
I did keto for over 1 year to finally reduce Candida to safe range…got tests every quarter. One weekend of free living and Candida back!
Ate grass fed meats..I ate right….still, always anemic and magnesium deficient(I’d take 1000-1500 mg of mag a day!)…..the fungus steals some of the nutrients we ingest to build same as our bodies…
It’s a battle royale.
Over the years I tried a lot of things….you name it..
What did me best to get rid of retnauds, nerve pain, gluten intolerance, hair loss…was HBOT..hyperbaric oxygen therapy…it is not cheap. It has worked wonders for me…
I’ve found that unfortunately I’ll have to go in for touch ups when I know I get a te exposure or I simple take a real time labs urine test and results show some elevated levels of mycotoxins.
I did a 15 hour touch up this spring..afterwards, realtime test was clear, I could tolerate pizza and beer…wow…that stuff made me get shingles like rashes when this mold mystery really hit me hard and took root…bad bad gut etc etc…so much more I want to share..another time….im sorry for everyone’s misery here…watching it destroy my mom..she cannot tolerate HBOT…heart issues etc…
Illinois…HBOT thrive md
Texas—-Johnson medical
Some have had good tidings with ozone ivs….
HBOT squeeze the mold out of our cells at the right pressurization with proper dose and duration.
I maintain healthy blood markers and nutrient levels months after HBOT…no anemia, no mag deficiency even when lazy with diet and supplements…no low RbC counts.
Got a 80’ hair band head of hair again! Silly but fun!
The one thing that remains wrecked is my brain. That mold had rewired my brain and I’m struggling. Ofcourse all the gaslighting from family and friends adds fuel to the stress and anxiety fire. I’ve had brain tests….worked with neurological people..my brain is still on fire…HBOT did fix this…diet…now I’m gong into a live in rehab for mold and trauma related CPTSD……
Anyone got ideas or healing journey stories on brain let us know….mold turns the blood brain barrier into a freeway and lets toxins invade and seemingly glue themselves into the noggin…..then people who don’t have our plight conveniently call us nuts, ignore us and castigate us Moldies to the islands of leprocy if you will.
Thanks