JK98, you have inspired me - I thought I good through this all with minimial diet changes but after much thought I realize that if I want to be healthy - with I so desparately want - then I need to do everything i can to get healthy. I had done the candida diet very strictly 4 or 5 years ago and lost tons of weight and my family made me stop because I was emaciated. I did not use antifungals at the time and I didn't feel any better on the diet. Since getting my amalgams out I did clean up my diet some - no raw sugar, coffee, soda, ice cream, junk but I still had some sugar like fruit juice, vitamin water, fruits, condiments. Today, I feel horrible and realize that I am probably just constantly going through die off symptoms because what I am eating - sugarwise - is being killed off by the herbs (even though it is parasite it has a lot of candida killers too) thus causing constant die off. I will never get better at this rate so . . . as of 6:00 pm EST on 8/16/08 I am officially eating RIGHT. I don't want to be paranoid about it because I have severe OCD (mercury related) and can go overboard but I need to be much more conscious about it and eliminate the fruit juice and fruits - I think I can have granny smith apples though. Right? We'll see what happens.