All power to people if they find other ways that can help them before resorting to something stronger. I have heard people have horrific results from antifungals such as diflucan (liver), no way would I recommend the stuff. If it's helped you, great.

Diet helped me, I recommend what helps me. I don't always know whether it will do the same for someone else though. But I've also been messed up by other stuff (nystatin was too much for me and caused vomiting). I always think the best place to start is diet and natural supplements in respect to candida, and go from there. If it's an extreme case, someone may need a stronger antifungal. But surely it's best to start with basics and go from there.

I don't have hardly any money at all, I do what I can with what I have. basic supplements is all I can manage. I stick with diet mainly because it doesn't cause such a hole in my wallet. Outside of that, I can only really get the basics like vitamin C, E and selenium and zinc maybe. Even then it's hard. Personally for me without diet, the other stuff is a bit pointless, it only complements dietry efforts. RIght now I cannot afford a thing, so it's just diet I rely upon, other than vitamin C. That is IT. I have admittedly just done a parasite cleanse, but I am not someone who can afford a whole pile of stuff all at once, nor could I sustain that!

you say you don't know why people keep recommending supplements that have a pretty good chance of not working....well they may have a pretty good chance of complementing too. .

I think people can make up their own mind which method they want to try. I don't see the problem with supplementary recommendations, but do agree it can become excessive and certainly overwhelming for anybody on a limited income.

I remember on one forum, the owner recommends eating coconut oil (tablespoons of the stuff) until you reach your quota that day. I was STUNNED and everybody was doing this and I thought "how the heck can you afford to do this?" For me to fork out for coconut oil in itself was stretching it, bu tthen going through it at the rate of knots by consuming it by the tablespoon daily was ridiculous. I just opted out.

I think people should do what they can under their own personal circumstances. I remember I jumped in too quick and used an antifungal (natural too) and I caused such a lethal die off effect that I was very very ill for many months following this. I had to then fork out for chelation to try and undo the damage. The antifungal acts different than simply starving yeast out by diet and it killed so much yeast in a small space of time, split the cell walls open and in doing so, not only released yeast toxins, but any metal contained.

I could not improve until I used DMSA to get the metals out (very expensive stuff). In fact, I have read that it is not only foolish but very dangerous to use strong antifungals in anybody who is metal toxic. They have also proven this can occur by testing urine during antifungal use and seeing the increase in metals.

I don't know how true that is in particular, but I do know what happened to me personally and it was devastating.