Hi Gloria, yeah maybe the cleanese won't help much, but a few on here have used them and seem to feel they've helped. My main issue of course is infections and low immunity. Something that I'm not sure how to address, which is why cat's claw seemed one possible aid, if in fact it does what some say it does (especially in my case).

Yeah Heels is excellent, helped me out of a few situations that one. It even helped me when I had mercury too, but it was pretty strong stuff and I had to take much less that the normal dose. Too many detox symptoms. But that was great because back then I had mercury, not these infections and it was one way to help my body get the metals out of me.

no cleansing does not fix infections, I have definitely found that out, but it may at least get some gunk out of me in the meantime.

Yep, candida is part of us, so it is normal, it's just when it gets out of it's normal healthy state that things go badly wrong. But I also think it's an indicator someone's body is out of balance, poisoned or something else is going on. Otherwise battling candida is ongoing and never a sure thing if the underlying problem remains.

I tried probiotics, expensive and didn't seem to help me. Perhaps I got a bung batch because one other time they seemed to work almost in the same day. This time...i noticed nothing at all.

The candida diet is 3 weeks if someone only needs it to temporarily get back into balance (e.g. after antibiotics) but it's permanent if someone has something like what I do. If I go off it even once, it's disastrous. This time though things are not really improving, so I am really upset by that. I'm eating as well as I can, but obviously it's just not doing the job.

Yeah that is very true, what works for some may not work for others. I'll be careful! I actaully regret hte dental work now, I think it's just not something my body could handle. But at the sametime, at some point it would needed to have been done anyway, so I was kind of stuck.

But it's left me in a very bad state. I underestimated what would happen I think. And overestimated my body's ability to cope! I thought that so long as I stuck to the diet, I'd be "ok"....hmmm didn't quite work out that way.

anyway, thanks again and hope things are going ok for you!!!