Testing for candida is notoriously unreliable. This is why many people have it and continue to suffer because test results say they are "clear".

One thing that confuses me about this, is why would your doctor go and put you on that stuff, without addressing your diet first? REgardless of whether he saw yeast or not, the diet is there to starve out pathogens and lower the levels naturally first. This is the first thing anybody should do.

If you have a severe enough problem and you take probiotics plus the other stuff he gave you, it's NO WONDER you are having a severe reaction. This in itself shows he's probably onto half of your problem, as many of us actually do have other things going on alongside mercury (e.g. low grade infections, gum disease, cavitations etc). This lowers the immune system and can actually cause worse symptoms than the mercury itself.

I'm just surprised the doc didn't get you on a diet to rid you off all sugar, yeast, gluten, fruit, milk etc, and try and get you stronger before shoving you straight onto any kind of antifungal stuff or probiotic.

Even just probitoics on their own could do this to you, especially if you haven't addressed your diet first. That is the first step and I can't understand anybody ignoring it, it is irresponsible.

Even Andy Cutler doesn't address the diet for candida and he only talks about using antifungals, and this again is ridiculous. You can kill of massive amounts of pathogens, yeast etc, all at once, releasing all those toxins which will flood into your blood stream, overloading your liver and making you EXTREMELY SICK, yet at the sametime, if youre ignoring the diet, you will be feeding them as well, so the process of feeding and killing will go in a continual cycle.

If you did the diet, you might actually start to get a die off, but one that is less traumatic to you than the probiotics and the other stuff. I would say YES it's die off. That's my guess, but I'm no doctor, so I haven't really got a right to gamble with your health.

However, I can say do the diet, because this is no gamble. This is good for anybody toxic with high levels of yeast and bacteria. By the way, if you are toxic? with mercury or ill with anything else, candida is an opportunist organism, it is nearly always present and many had tests that showed clear and didn't bother doing the diet thinking they didn't have a problem.

The way to test for candida can be looking at a list of symptoms, seeing your response to the candida diet, and the spit test (though eventhat can be unreliable). The spit test, is just getting a glass of water and leaving it by your bed till morning. Then when you wake up, before you have anything to eat or drink, you work up a lot of spit and spit it into the glass of water and leave it there. Check on it in abut 20 minutes and hold it up to the light so you can see whether there is clouding and string like legs coming down from the spit, or there is suspended cloudy bits in the water, and or the spit has sunk to the bottom or is sinking to the bottom. Any or all of these signs can suggest a candida problem. Again, all testing can be unreliable with this organism.

it's up to you. you can ignore the diet, or you can get tough and do it and see if you improve over time. But improvements will not normally happen for a few weeks. You will generlaly feel worse, as toxins and things are beginning to loosen and come out.

The very fact many have a problem giving up the stuff they want to keep eating, can be another sign they have a candida problem, as it needs to feed on that stuff to survive and will cause you to keep eating it. When you try and give it up, you will usually begint o crave it and you can feel like you're starving. This is the yeast crying out to be fed usually and if you stick at it, it will begin to die and then you can feel grotty.

I would never take a probiotic or antifungal in someone who isn't on the diet. But the symptoms you are getting, does sound like your doctor may well have nailed some of your problem. It's just surprisingthat he's doing this without preparing you with diet and supportive supplements first, plus maybe even giving you homeopathic drops to help the symptoms and help drainage of toxins.