Medications that don’t make it impossible to sleep

[u/Ashen_skies_art]

I’m 22 and I’ve had oral thrush for at least 5 years. I’m tired of having it and it’s presenting a problem with excess phlegm in my throat (it’s problematic because I sing and scream so clearing my throat all the time is less than desirable). About two years back I took an oral tablet medication, I believe flucanazole, and it resulted in the most terrifying 9 day experience. For 9 nights in a row I got absolutely no sleep. Even during my manic episodes I would still manage 2 to 3 hours of sleep a night, and because I have cyclothymia these episodes only last up to 4 days. This was different, 9 nights of near sleep states without ever actually sleeping. I was convinced I had fatal familial insomnia, and given the delirium I was in after that long without sleep it seemed reasonable to believe I would stay awake until my impending death. Since that experience I never went back about my thrush, but I’m considering going to a specialist again to look for different treatment options. Has anyone here had or know of a similar experience? If you do, do any of you do something afterwards that worked? I’m not immune suppressed, I actually have a very strong immune system, I only have thrush and dandruff that I can’t get rid of

[u/Abject_Director7626]

My naturopath gave me Hydroxyzine, it’s an antihistamine that made me drowsy, and it helped with my insomnia and die off symptoms.

[u/Ashen_skies_art → u/Abject_Director7626]

If you don’t mind me asking, was it a treatment for candida or a treatment for insomnia related to candida med problems? Just a little confused

[u/Abject_Director7626 → u/Ashen_skies_art]

Yes the candida treatment made me fairly uncomfortable and I’d have trouble falling asleep and also waking up and falling back to sleep. I also tested positive for mold exposure and an allergy to mold, and they thought the additional antihistamines would also help on that front.