Dear Diane don't know how true this is, but once read a book where a woman was suffering from severe Candida and basically tottered around her flat like an old woman. A year later her husband got the same symptoms and also became housebound. Makes you wonder. Whether you have to be genetically the type of person to aquire these things, who knows. Also read about someone who was basically in bed for 12 years and then found out she had severe Candida, was prescribed antfungals and was cured. It sure is all a bizarre mystery. Love Tracy x