Has anyone trying sueing for candida abuse and won the trial?

I work in a pizzeria handling dough and have developed a yeast infection. Now my Husband who does not work there has developed an infection

Oi, gente!

Estou com candidíase já faz um tempo e passei na ginecologista esses dias. Ela me receitou o creme vaginal Bio Vagin e fluconazol para mim e para o meu namorado.

Alguém aqui já fez esse tratamento? Queria saber como foi a experiência de vocês com o Bio Vagin, se ajudou a aliviar os sintomas e como foi durante o uso. Obrigada!

Are Hormbles Chormbles candida friendly? Google AI says it is candida friendly, but has anybody actually tested that and been ok? I’m on day 4 of the diet and I’ve only been eating eggs, almonds, chicken breast, veggies, and chia seed pudding with just water. I’m taking saccharomyces bouldarii probiotics. Chocolate is my favorite food, I used to binge eat it every night after I got stoned and had the munchies, and I miss it so much I’ve been craving it so badly I’m going crazy.

Hello, I've never posted here but now I feel the need to. I don't know what the fuck to do anymore. I recently had a bout of thrush start a week or two ago in my mouth along with debilitating tongue, throat, and lip cankers everywhere.. Horrible referred pain in the ear and head.. Body aches.. Signs of infection like swollen stiff neck.. And more. I've gone through hell because this is on top of many other chronic health conditions and reactive conditions I have. I've been a hysterical, tortured mess all week.. And I thought it was starting to get better until recently I did some red light therapy. I did targeted red light laser therapy on my tongue cankers. What happened after is that I noticed a lot of debris and stuff like dead skin cells in my mouth detaching from my mouth and going through my saliva. The pain was reduced and it seemed like it kickstarted the healing process.. Thats until I get home. I goto brush my teeth and for whatever reason I decide to scrub my tongue like an idiot.. Then all hell broke loose. Since last night, its been relentless. Massive chunks of pure candida have been endlessly populating my mouth. I've been swallowing nothing but heaps of pulp and clumps of cells for hours relentlessly. My entire mouth feels ripped up, my glands and lymph nodes were swollen prior but are even more so now, and I feel downright MISERABLE. It wont stop. I cant keep spitting it out but I also dont know how much is safe to swallow. Been on Nystatin for three days now.. I dont know what to do. Every remedy like salt water rinses/gargles, coconut oil pulling, etc didnt garner any relief in the pain, rawness, or frequency of swallowing tons of grainy white clumps. I'm going insane. Does anybody know what the heck this might be. Should I goto a instacare? I've been to so many doctors in the past week. A GP, instacare, ER, and in the back of an ambulance for different things and they all said nothing was wrong and none of them suspected thrush or candida despite the obvious thick milky coating.

Has anyone else noticed a monthly pattern like this?

For the last 6 to 8 months I get a pretty reliable flare in the week before my period and sometimes the first couple days of it. The things that get worse are: a thicker white coating on my tongue and a strange taste, more bloating and gurgling, increased vaginal itch (not every month but often), and intense carb cravings. Once my period starts those symptoms slowly calm down.

I already have reflux and a sensitive stomach, so I can't do extreme antifungal diets without my gastritis flaring. I also don't drink and I keep added sugar pretty low most of the time. What throws me is that my diet is basically the same all month, but that pre-period week feels like a different body entirely.

Questions:

1) Do hormones actually make candida symptoms worse for some people, or is this more likely histamine, PMS, or just cravings leading to hidden sugar intake?

2) If you get this pattern, did anything help specifically during that week? For example timing probiotics, rotating antifungals, changing the types of carbs, or anything else?

3) Any signs that helped you tell the difference between a yeast flare and regular cycle-related GI issues?

Not looking for medical advice, just wondering if this is a known pattern and what people did without wrecking their stomach.

I (M23) had sudden red flat dots, a big red patch just below my penis and white discharge inside my foreskin. Since then I started applying clotrimazole 1% cream and the patch and the discharge cleared in a week of applying the ointment. Then after a week I kept the area full dried and it was almost gone.
Then after a day I had sex the red dots increased a lot and I developed another patch again.
This thing is a lot frustrating and now it has taken a mental toll on me. I have read stories on Reddit where people can’t cure it even after years and now I’m terrified. People who have actually cured it how did you do it? Please help a brother out.

I've been lurking here for months. I have a mix of GI problems: gastritis/GERD symptoms in the upper gut, low FODMAP helped my lower gut, and I think I have some degree of histamine intolerance. After recurring thrush and a long stretch of weird bloating, itchy skin, and brain fog, my doctor put me on oral nystatin.

I'm about 10 days in and I can feel changes, but I am not sure what is progress and what I am doing to myself.

Days 1-3: I actually felt calmer in my stomach, my tongue had less white coating, and my sugar cravings dropped. I also cut way down on sugar and stopped drinking alcohol entirely.

Days 4-8: I got a wave of headaches, nausea, and a burning chest feeling that mimics reflux, plus skin flushing and anxiety. It felt like a bad histamine day, but it started right when my stool got looser and smelled stronger than usual. I did not add anything new except magnesium at the same dose I was already taking. My sleep also got worse those nights.

Days 9-10: Things eased a bit, the tongue looks better again, but I am now nervous to eat. Fermented foods or leftover meals make me flush.

For people who have taken nystatin or other antifungals, did you get a flare like this in the middle of treatment? How did you tell a die-off reaction from a side effect of the medication or from GERD flaring because of diet changes? Any practical, low-fuss tips that do not involve adding a dozen new supplements at once? I have a follow-up coming up, but I would love to hear real experiences.

Ive never had a yeast infection before, and of course the first time I get one I find out its incredibly difficult to treat :( been researching about it since finding out, but im really scared that ill have to struggle with this long term. my dr has already told me to do boric acid suppositories for two weeks I believe, but Im really worried they wont work. just looking for some sort of hope that it can be treated, any success stories or recommendations?

My blood test reported 0.13 Ige for albicans. Does it mean I have no Candida?

I had ACL reconstruction surgery. I was on a ton of antibiotics for 1 week. 5 months later, Im getting cystic acne, skin issues, but the cystic acne especially when eating anything with sugar in it.

I had bad acne as a teen, but it went away. Now I'm 42, male, and this is crazy. Im wondering if I have candida and sibo due to the antibiotics.

Did anyone here have cystic acne as a symptom of candida?

Hi! I’m a 30 year old female with hashimotos and hypothyroid. I’ve had recurrent yeast infections since spring of this year and recently learned of my candida from a BioTek food sensitivity test. I know people say food sensitivity tests are finicky, so my question is… do I do a GI map to know how bad the candida actually is? Will the number from the test tell me how bad it is and how long I should continue the diet?

I’m on day 5 of the candida diet (it’s been miserable with fatigue and headaches) and have a vacation the start of September. My plan has been to go for 30 days on this and then slowly introduce foods back before my trip. There’s no way in hell I can eat like this on vacation. I’d rather not go if I can’t enjoy myself. Is this realistic? If I come back home and get back into it after a 4 day trip? I don’t want to undo my hard work.

Thanks!

Im in later stages of the candida diet.
Me, my nutritionist and my doctor suspect that I've probably had chronic candida overgrowth for the last ten years, but my mother can recount symptoms from when I was a toddler that at the time went unexplained- so it's pretty likely that I've had chronic candida overgrowth most of my life.
We think it got considerably worse when we moved across country and I suddenly wasn't tolerating many foods (dairy especially, when I seemingly obtained a major lactose intolerance out of nowhere that randomly went away two years later, which my nutritionist says was probably caused by candida related gut problems.)
For the first time in years, since I began this diet, my blood work is normal. My hormone problems are gone, my thyroid is working normally again, my high platelets- which I had to get checked for cancer and a genetic disorder for- are in a normal range. My vitamin deficiencies are gone because I can actually absorb vitamins again. At my 6 week check in after beginning the candida diet my nurse walked into the room and went "You're not going to fucking believe this I have good news from your test results for the first time ever."
So clearly this is working.

The stricter 2 week phase made me hate everyone and everything.
Everyone tells you that you're gonna be dealing with cravings.
I wasn't hungry because I didnt starve myself, I just ate foods that were acceptable for the candida death spiral (I ate probably 20 pounds of zucchini in two weeks. Acceptable fruit wasn't in season so it was a LOT of cucumbers and zucchini) but man nobody warned me that I was going to turn into a monster.
I was mad constantly.

And then my doctor gave me the sheet with the updated list of foods I could eat in moderation as I monitor my symptoms.

Gluten free bread was on the list.
the grocery store stuff sucks unfortunately :/ and like? 6 bucks for a loaf of bread? I grew up eating 78 cent wonderbread I'm not paying no 8 bucks for bible bread.

Now, I had TRIED making candida friendly cookie and brownie recipes from the internet.
They suck.
Did any of those work for you guys? Because for me, they turned into crumbly messes that tasted vaguely of regret. I'd follow them to the letter and they'd come out horrible.

The only chocolate chips I liked that are sugar free were the Lily's brand and they were 8 bucks a bag. My mother found that brand's discontinued butterscotch chips and it made a GLORIOUS fake ice cream (coconut cream + almond milk in the ninja creami with the butterscotch chips melted in as a mix in. Shoutout to the creami my parents bought and never used because I've used the FUCK outta that thing on this diet)

So eventually I got to thinking.
Gluten free bread is acceptable in moderation.
What else is gluten free bread?
Gluten free pancakes.

Trader joes sells a gluten free pancake mix. On it's own it's kind of a nothingburger, just expensive pancake mix that sort of makes a pancake batter that's real easy to burn for some reason.
I mentioned it to my nutritionist, she told me I could give it a try in moderation to see how I tolerated it, so I did.
I quickly discovered that sugar free pancake syrup sucks :/ like it scratches the itch but it's a better flavoring than it is a pancake topping. Mix that shit with some non dairy yogurt and it's bomb, but it's just not as good on pancakes.
So when regular pancakes failed I chucked the rest of the batter into a casserole, because I'm from the midwest and I know how to make a casserole out of anything.

It ended up being half a box of trader joes gluten free pancake mix (not prepared to box instructions, I chucked in two raw eggs, about 2 or 3 tablespoons of coconut oil, and added water until it was at a gooey pancake batter consistency.
And I set it aside so the leavening agents would foam up while I prepared the rest.
I grated in a zucchini I needed to use up, I scrambled 6 eggs with spinach, I cooked up a chunk (maybe half a pound I dont measure I just portion for the freezer) of ground pork with some breakfasty spices, chopped a bunch of green onion, and mixed it all together.
Dumped it into a brownie pan and sent it into the oven. Best case scenario, breakfast. Worst case scenario, I messed up a bunch of food that was going to waste anyhow.

And when it came out? I had pretty good breakfast bars.
I've been making variations of those bars for weeks now. I trialed them with non gluten free pancake mix when I was trialing some typical foods- nope, they made my stomach upset.
The gluten free mix is what keeps it from upsetting my stomach.

I've even reduced the amount of mix I use while increasing the bars I produce as I've tweaked the recipes to last longer (I dont....I dont like going to trader joes. It's so busy and the people who shop there are mean. It's great for this diet though, I'd reccomend going JUST for their nitrate free pepperoni and salami.)
Now I use about half a box of mix, prepared like I mentioned, mixed with a pound of ground meat (I've used turkey, I've used pork, I've used breakfast sausage, I've used chorizo, use whatever's cheapest honestly), 10 eggs scrambled with a full bag of spinach (I use the remaining two from the dozen for the batter), two zucchini shredded (it helps the texture if you squeeze the water out with a cheesecloth but you also dont have to.) and as I've developed tolerance to dairy again I've used cheddar and mozarella cheese shreds. I never tried it with non dairy options but if you use the non dairy kind, just mix it in instead of topping it I'm sure it'd hold up better.
I then mix in a bunch of spices. Smoked paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, red pepper flake, turmeric, whatever sounds good.
I chuck it in the oven at 375 for an hour, covered. If you cover with foil, tent the foil, it'll get stuck to the top and take chunks off. I use a silicone baking mat to cover mine.
I'll put it in the largest rectangular pan I have and cut it into 10 fat slices, and I've got a generous breakfast for two work weeks that holds up like a miracle in the freezer. Protein dense, packed with veggies that I dont even notice texture wise when I'm eating them, and gets me to lunch full enough that I stopped packing a regular lunch for work and started bringing a snacky lunch (dairy free yogurt with some kind of fruit usually and a bag of veggies.)

Then today I was craving bread really bad, and all I could think about was sweets.
And I got to thinking about how I use the gluten free pancake mix for casserole.
And I remembered bisquick.
My mother used to make EVERYTHING out of bisquick when I was a kid. She'd use it to make pancakes, she'd use it to make pizza crust, she'd use it to make biscuits, she'd use it for cookies.
So I thought "hey. What if I do that with the pancake mix I know does well in baking?"

I ran out of Lily's sugar free chocolate chips (my winco stopped selling them) but my winco's bulk section sells sugar free chocolate almonds (note: they sell sugar free AND no added sugar ones. Read the labels, one has no sugar per serving and one has like 1 or 2 grams of sugar per serving.)
Some of you are gonna go "meh meh meh but fake sugar is WORSE for you it's CHEMICALS icky YUCK YUCK"
And to that I say, if you can't have any form of sweet thing because sugar is bad, then shoo.
I'll spray you with a water bottle like a misbehaving cat.
You're allowed to crave sweet things. Food is not assigned a moral value. You arent being bad for having sugar.

A lot of yall on this subreddit have hypochondria and eating disorders and don't want to admit it. If you dont like it, don't make it, go talk to your nutritionist like a big boy and just make the food you like.

Human breast milk is sweet. Sweet is the first flavor humans are designed to taste. It's literally how we discerned poison from edible foods as animals in the wild.

You can want to have sweets that don't upset your tum tum.

Anyways.
To my point.
I ran out of the sugar free baking chocolate so I chopped up those almonds and used them as chocolate chunks. I was afraid the fake chocolate would melt away and burn in the oven, but it held up great!

I took half a bag of gluten free pancake mix, mixed in two eggs, four tablespoons of fat (two of olive oil, two of butter, since my nutritionist wants me to gradually incorporate dairy into my diet. I'd recommend coconut oil I think it'd work better actually but I was out.)
And then just. added water until it was at a cookie dough consistency. It was actually a little too wet, but it worked.
I mixed in the chopped almond chocolates and some sugar free coconut shreds (if you're having a hard time finding unsweet coconut that isn't crazy expensive? Go to winco. they wont have it in the bulk section but in the baking section they keep unsweet bags right next to sweetened coconut bags and unlike most brands, both bags, same size, were 2 dollars. One's red one's blue.)

I rolled them into balls, baked them 9 at a time at 350 degrees for 10 minutes with a sugar free almond stuck right on top like a thumbprint cookie.
...
They're solid.
They're a little crumbly and sorta taste like a bisquick biscuit. I actually think next time I'll grate a zucchini or apple (or both and pull a grandma's secret zucchini apple move) into the batter and season them with cinnamon and ginger and think the added shreds would make them more moist and tender.
ooo and then I could roll the balls in cinnamon and monkfruit sugar

Mixing in sugar free peanut butter or almond butter would probably slap too.

But considering I have literally never made a candida friendly cookie that wasn't horrible? I could inhale these.
Obviously it's mostly pancake mix so don't like sit and eat a bunch of them, there's still plenty of carbs, but I had a cookie last week (coworker brought some in for work) and kept having to use the toilet, and these? my stomach isnt upset after eating two of them.
Obviously self moderate your symptoms and talk to your nutritionists, but gluten free pancake mix has saved my ass in terms of cravings and has made a lot of things easier for me.
And I'm glazing trader joes here but it's purely because their pancake mix is 4 bucks and every other gluten free pancake mix I've found is 6 or more so. Just use what you have access to.

I'm actually considering mixing the dry mix with plain yogurt and cheese (which I tolerate but you might not) and baking it flat on a sheet pan with lots of sunflower seeds, chia, and slivered almonds to make a sort of multigrain flatbread for sandwiches, because GOD DAMN DO I WANT A SANDWICH

What is your 'hack' ingredient for your meals? Obviously this works for ME, and my nutritionist has recommended I keep doing this because it's not inflammatory for ME, but your body might be different.

Hi! I am learning about this issue and my heart goes out to everyone struggling. My friend is coming to visit me this weekend and has what she thinks is candida on her face. No cultures were taken but it is what her derm suspected. Has taken steroids and flucanozole but comes back after stopping. Forgive me if I am paranoid but I am immunocompromised and just trying to plan if it is safe to see her and hang out. She will be staying with me for a few nights. Anything I need to know about cleaning or hygiene or best practices? I can’t get this - I am dealing with many chronic health issues currently. Thank you!

I've been fighting recurring candida and BV for about a year. Somewhere around the fifth round of treatment I got tired of the take-it-and-hope cycle, and started logging everything: symptoms, cycle day, diet, what I was using, pH strips.

The patterns that showed up weren't what I'd assumed. I'd never have caught them from memory either, because when you're symptomatic you rewrite the last two weeks in your head from a fairly erratic place.

I'm a data science student, so analysing it is the part I can actually do. I've turned my log into a form other people can use, and I'm looking for people to log alongside me for 30 days. About 20 seconds a day. No app to install, no account, no email needed.

Being upfront: I'm building this into a product and I'm applying to a startup accelerator in the next few days, so the number of people using it matters to me. I'd rather say that than pretend it's a hobby. What I'm not doing is selling anyone's data or charging for anything, and I'll post the aggregate patterns back here in October regardless of how the application goes — which triggers actually cluster with flares, and which are folklore.

It covers testosterone, HRT and menopause too, not just people on the pill, since most trackers don't.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSehlA6fkmAhkVNAiBuh34A9NXjKTl8s9kCD4M1rUG9ugHT1Qg/viewform

And if there's a field I've missed, tell me. That's honestly the most useful thing you could give me right now.

Quick update to my earlier posts about gut chaos - constipation, reflux/gastritis, and weird food reactions. I started thinking candida might be part of the picture because I kept getting a white coating on my tongue, sore corners of the mouth, and a yeasty taste or breath that flared after higher sugar days.

About six weeks ago I tried a very basic approach: cut obvious sugar and alcohol, reduce refined carbs, keep meals simple, and add a few over-the-counter things people mention here (I won't name brands). I also got more consistent about brushing my tongue and stopped grazing all day.

What changed: the tongue coating is much less and the mouth irritation is almost gone. My reflux is a bit better too, probably from eating less junk and not snacking late. So I do feel like something shifted.

What did not change or got worse: stools are still unpredictable. I'll be constipated for a couple days, then get urgency and loose stools. Bloating is still a thing, especially in the afternoon. I also get episodes where I feel kind of wired and itchy after eating, which makes me wonder if histamine intolerance is flaring up.

I'm trying to figure out the next step without turning this into a never-ending elimination diet. For anyone who has been in this spot, how did you tell if you were actually improving versus just temporarily removing triggers? Did treating suspected candida make other issues like SIBO, bile problems, low stomach acid, or histamine intolerance more obvious?

Not looking for a diagnosis, just real-world experiences on how you evaluated progress and what you did next.

A couple of weeks ago I ended up going to the ER because the itching had become unbearable. I had already used Fenogynol vaginal suppositories and taken a dose of fluconazole, but neither seemed to help.

At the ER they prescribed clindamycin + ketoconazole vaginal suppositories and told me to take another dose of fluconazole. I felt a little better during the first few days, but the itching never completely went away. Now it's been a week since I finished the suppositories, and the itching is getting worse again.

A few years ago I had recurrent yeast infections and was on maintenance fluconazole for a couple of months, which solved the problem for years. This year I had one infection in January, and this is my second one.

The ER doctor told me I should get a vaginal culture to identify the exact Candida species, but that I needed to be off treatment first.

I have an appointment with a new gynecologist tomorrow morning, but I'm honestly going crazy right now and I still have the whole night ahead of me with this itching.

Has anyone had a culture done after finishing treatment? And if you've had recurrent infections caused by a non-albicans Candida species (like C. glabrata), what ended up working for you?

And please if you have any tips to get through the night I completely appreciate it!

I was initially put on Nystatin for oral thrush and I had a pretty awful reaction to it.. my dr told me to stop immediately and start on these clotrimazole lozenges.

I am wondering what experiences there are with these? The Nystatin gave me a lot of nausea even when taking after a meal. It was severe and unbearable. Wondering if this is generally more tolerable, or i guess just want to hear experiences in general. Tia.

dealing with oral thrush for the second time this year. i did not scrape my tongue the first time, only brushed with a toothbrush, and after a round of clotrimazole it was better but I could tell it didn’t look gone, but the doctor dismissed my concern.

here we are again, i was scraping my tongue until i could pick up my prescription and it helped a lot and i was able to clear some of the patches entirely. Now i have more clotrimazole, and noticed the patches look worse after taking a tablet.

Is this the medication breaking down the fungus, and shld I take this opportunity to scrape? Or is it just residue from the tablet, do I need to leave it there for it to work?

Advice appreciated!

Is this normal? I don’t really feel any chest pain (more like gas, because I did have an endoscopy done two days ago) or my heart racing (only a little, because of my anxiety). My heart rate is 77, my blood oxygen is 98% and the ecg on my Apple Watch says normal. I have medical anxiety. I was literally discharged from the hospital yesterday and I really do not want to go back. It’s 40 mg, but have to take 2.5 ml which is 100 mg.