Posted by bleauberry on September 8, 2012, at 16:08:56
In reply to im having a nasty fungal infection *URGENT*, posted by Jeroen on September 7, 2012, at 9:29:43
Jereon I have seen this exact situation in my own family. Long story short, you've got the wrong treatment. All you need is one or two doses of Diflucan. I've seen nasty yeast and fungus infections totally unresponsive to nizoral, nystatin, and herbs, but completely knocked down, gone, in less than 36 hours with Diflucan.
Now, I think it is important to look beyond this, deeper than this. You've got a fungus infection. Ok. That to me says a lot. That doesn't generally happen when an immune system is in good operating order. Many things that cause depression, also cause immune dysregulation, but from my own views it is usually the immune dysregulation that causes the depression or any psychiatric symptoms. You mentioned a couple years ago how you responded favorably to an anti-viral med. I'm not sure if you can see it, but there are pieces of the puzzle here suggesting immune/infection treatments could get you better than psychiatric meds. You herxed like hell on Minocycline. That was at the time wrongly viewed as intolerable side effects, which, anyone who knows that med and infections, knows that what you described was textbook Herxheimer, not side effects, and not bizarre intolerable whatever. It was actually doing exactly what it is was hoped to do, it's just that whatever you are dealing with needed to be approached much more gently than you did in the early going.
If you are still on Mino, then that could explain the origin of the fungal infection. Diflucan is needed to knock it down fast. I have a good deal of experience on this topic and I have never seen anything else work as well or as fast. I'm not even sure why the other antifungal options are still sold because I just have not seen them work good, ever. Going forward, anytime someone is on antibiotics, they need to also be taking high doses of probiotics and/or yogurt and/or Kefir. I'm not talking daily maintenance doses or regular eating doses, I'm talking therapeutically intended doses, which are a lot higher. Mino and others will not only kill the bad bacteria, but the good ones too, the ones that fend off yeast. Those good bacteria need to be replenished on a daily basis.
As I view it, I do not see anything in your history or clues that points to anything else other than an infectious/immune issues as the root problem of every symptom you have. I mean, everything is so complicated, we as humans don't really know what we are dealing with, but you've got a handful of clues all pointing in the same direction. With that in mind, and respecting how many other treatments failed that were not aimed at those clues, I think it has to be seriously considered.
As a side note, the antiviral med you took is also a dopamine agonist, and is indirectly an antibiotic (changes the PH within cells that creates a hostile environment for bacteria to thrive). That med is added, in Lyme circles, to turbocharge antibiotics, even though it is antiviral, and it's because of the PH thing.
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