Hi Missy, no I never did take any probiotics after my antibiotics. I probably should have. I can still do that though, but they are pretty costly and I'm trying to pay off my credit card which has a lot of supplement bills on there already, so I thought i'll try and hold out until I can afford it (unless I miraculously get better).

In the meantime, I'm sticking to the diet and taking acidophilus yoghurt (though I don't think it's nearly as effective as probiotics in supplement form). I cannot do any mercury chelation now because of this, that's how bad it's gotten. Not sure why, but gather chelation is somehow setting things off much worse, whether it's yeast, or my immune system can't cope, or whether the toxic movement from metals is just making things too much worse right now. I don't know.

I hope to be able to get back on track. But yeah I think my body will take a LONG time to restore any of the good bacteria again if I don't use probiotics. And interestingly enough, I am having massive cravings now for junkfoods and bread etc, so it's obviously and definitely yeast related. Like it's screaming for me to consume the foods it enjoys (I enjoy it too <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> ). But it's almost at an unhealthy level of craving, so this tells me I am going to have to battle this out.