HI Shawn, a big congrats on getting the disability! You deserve it and I hope the same for your living arrangements.

I'd start with the diet and forget antifungals for now. Antifungals are too harsh to start with and you will likely get more than enough (die off) from the diet alone. You could detox quite heavily and feel quite ill for a while before improvements.

If you really want to add stuff later, that's up to you, but the diet itself usually brings enough symptoms.

Usually the standard candida diet is simply no sugar, no fruit, no grains, no yeast, no milk or cheese, no honey, no yeast, no high carb vegetables like potatoes, corn, peas/beans and you exist mainly on meats, vegetables, acidophilus yoghurt (plain and sugar free), raw nuts almonds/brazil, seeds, lots of healthy fats like butter, extra virgin olive oil, lard, mercury free fish oil, etc.

Basically the western Price diet, but without the high carbs like grains etc. Some people can handle non gluten grains, but some of us have to give it all up, at least until enough candida is killed off to where these foods can be added again later on.

I used to handle limited fruit and limited non gluten grain, so long as I gave up all sugar and gluten and yeast. But these days I'm much sicker and have to stick to the more rigid diet.

The diet is healthy, no matter what is wrong. It's not just about candida, it's to help heal the body. Candida, if it is overgrown will naturally die off when you starve it of the wrong foods! But you may find it hard at first as you can get severe cravings for sugars etc, as the yeast fights to survive. It's a test of will power and something you need to battle with. Eventually the cravings will subside, but it may take a few weeks.

You can also feel quite sickly as the yeast dies and toxins are expelled from dying yeast, as well as other toxins from your body coming loose from the lack of sugars and other toxic foods, and the addition of healthy foods.

It is worth it and I think it's the first and best basic step.

Andy does indeed talk about candida in his book, but he is not all that "up" on candida, his main thing is metals. He does recommend treating yeast though because it can cause untold misery in mercury or other metal toxic people. Unfortunately he doesn't really mention the candida diet, and that is the biggest part of healing this condition. The rest is just supplementary.

You may find after you completely stop eating sugars and the other wrong foods, that something starts to happen. It may not happen the same day, it may occur days later. I remember getting cravings so bad and headaches and feeling ill, I was a mess. So many toxins came loose, I could hardly stand it. But it was worth every bit of temporary misery. Weeks later, I felt like a different person, though still mercury toxic, I just felt so much happier and healthier.

My depression and anxiety lifted too. If you get this part right? I think you'll be in a much better position to fight the other stuff.