HI Gloria, thanks for your post, really interesting. I think that too, I have grown to get very used to what my body is responding too and things that aren't quite right, or at least something my body isn't coping with.

I think by diet alone, there is enough detox going on without adding too much else to the regime, or I can find myself becoming overwhelmed with symptoms which actually doesn't tend to do me much good because the body can only detox at a rate it can keep up with. Swamp it and it goes into overload and there tends to be a backfire effect from released toxins, which tend to be re-absorbed because the body couldn't handle it and was unable to excrete it all. It's like being repoisoned sometimes.

I do ok on vitamin C, but must watch other supplements as I can find it stirs too many toxins up on occassion. I take breaks too, so my body gets a chance to rid itself of what was stirred up.

I personally have been down many roads in my journey, of homoepaths, herbalists, iridologists, doctors, Voll testing, and the list goes on. They all may have helped in their own way at one time or another, but nothing really remedied the underlying condition. Diet was also great, and that I rely upon as my foundation, but there is far more that needs fixing than any kind of herbal remedy or cleanse can really 'fix".

So I don't go in for it too much these days. I am saving my money because I need to pay off my dental bill which is excessive (my choice because I opted for porcelain). And then later it maybe finding a surgeon to do cavitation surgery, if I can. Until then, I am on a limited budget, with just my diet to rely upon mainly and the on occassion cleanse or basic change of supplements to see if something may work a bit better for me.

nothing extravagent, just the bare minimum.

Yes antibiotics are a KILLER. I can tell you that I think it was last year or the year before (hard to tell, time races for me), I was put on antibiotics after a very bad flu virus. I was badly infected from the virus and spent every night coughing and was not able to sleep. I was coughing up green mucous (sorry for too much information) and was so ill that I was having chills and fever. It was becoming bad enough to where had I left it longer, I'd probably have been taken to hopsital. My parents said enough is enough and off I went and got antibitoics from a doctor.

Yep, they fixed the flu infection, but the consequences were serious. My gut condition, candida problems exacerbated to double and I am much worse off since. I still cannot get back to even how I was then (which wasn't great).

One guy I know is still severely sick a year and a half later after only one course of antibiotics. So they are lethal. What I should have done in hindsight, is stick to my strict diet, instead of stupidly cheating and probably using some strong herbs and maybe eating garlic too.

My cheats during that time was because my candida wasn't quite as serious as it is now, so I was very foolish. I also noted that everytime I succumbed at ate sugar foods, the flu infection increased and my coughing worsened, as did the mucous. Yet when I stuck to the diet, things lessened. However, I didn't give it enough chance and took the avenue of antibiotics. I wonder now when I look back if I had stuck to the regime enough and for long enough, whether I would have cured myself....I can't say because the infection was very serious.

I know myself quite well and I do truly feel that it will take dramatic intervention to gain any real impact and long term results/relief and that may well wind up being dental surgery. I do not know.

I do of course take things that I think may aid my body to cope better, but to be honest, they just do not have enough impact for long enough time. Things usually fall apart at some point because whatever is there, remains and continues to cause problems 24/7.

It would be great to know exactly what is going on!

thanks again for your posts.