Hi Nina. Your symptoms sound similar to mine, although mine was less serious. And yes, I am somewhat intolerant to most B-complex as well, in addition to megadoses of vit C, E and selenium, they mobilized too much toxins up for me.

As usual <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> , my recommendations are different from people here, but the following is based on own experience.

The symptoms you have (tachycardia, heart palpitations, joint pain, brain fog, flushing) are those of acetaldehyde poisoning - a toxic waste product of candida. Everyone can experience some of these symptoms by taking alcohol and antabus together. Acetaldehyde gets easily deposited all over in your body, if your body is not good at detoxing it. If you want to stick to ordinary supplements, nothing else helps more than pantothenic acid (B5) and molybdenum. Both are necessary, but pantothenic acid is the more important. If you cant stand a strong B-complex, you have to buy a supplement with only pantothenic acid. I got myself a 500 mg supplement of B5, but I'm not crazy enough to take that amount at once. Initially, perhaps a few ten mg's per day is good, and then working your way up to 100 mg per day (this may be too high for you), divided in several doses per day. B5 is also excellent for adrenal support, I could literally feel it hitting the adrenal glands when I started taking it. There is no way you're getting enough B5 from food or from weak supplements, it didn't work for me at least.

There will be some side-effects of course, nothing works without them. You can get a severe hang-over, if you take too much B5, including trembling hands, feeling fluey, aching joints etc. (I had only a mild hang-over, because I realized to not take too much). Molybdenum especially makes quite strong joint pains and headache - but all are symptoms that acetaldehyde is being detoxed. It will also relieve you from your brain fog (I assume you have it too). Unfortunately, when acetaldehyde is being detoxed, it is converted into acetic acid, which is otherwise harmless, but it is an anti-fungal as well, so better be careful.

I wouldn't recommend this, if I hadn't tested it myself, it was the only way to rid myself of the accumulated acetaldehyde quickly within a week to tolerable levels. I also wouldn't recommend too much vit C, E, or selenium, it made me only worse, by killing off more candida, and flooding myself with more acetaldehyde. There appears to also be a significant difference in how well people are at detoxing acetaldehyde, some definitely need to support their acetaldehyde detox pathway carefully, in order to survive this dangerous game. Just thought this alternate plan could be helpful, the usual way recommended by others here did unfortunately not work for me at least, and your case sounds quite similar to mine.

Here are some more refs to the acetaldehyde detox:

http://candidapage.com/aldehyde.shtml

DMSA and acetaldehyde:
http://onibasu.com/archives/am/203523.html

Note: apparently DMSA can be used for acetaldehyde detox as well.