Hi Jinx, I'm not sure if it's the same thing. But since the viral infection, my gut sensations became very strange and of course candida became a major problem from that time onwards. I would get a pulled in sensation in the gut area....so it sounds like it maybe similar. I tried to describe this to others, but they didn't get what I meant. This would occur after a cheat, OR with die off and I never knew whether the yeast was feeding or dying. It is a nasty feeling and hard to describe. I also had it sometimes if I chelated the wrong way and more toxins would enter my gut area. My gut became a stand out problem with that viral infection and I also feel it worsened after wisdom tooth removal. I do feel there is an ongoing suppression of immunity and leakage of toxicity somewhere in me. This would explain why I do not respond to the same efforts that I used to. It is similar to not really being able to get a healing crisis and if I "do" get anything, there is a lack of expected improvement after it an the condition still remains regardless.

Every problem also hits the gut area and that odd pulling sensation becomes paramount. WHen I took garlic supplementation, I have no idea what on earth happened, but I wound up in emergency in the most agonising pain I have ever experienced. I feel it shunted toxins straight into the gut, because of the change in me from the virus. Everything always hit the gut area, so that's not surprising. I even started to get heat and rashes coming up on the skin around the abdominal area and I took very lose dose chelation, which eventually aided those toxins to start shifting out of there and the rashes on the gut would get lower and lower down (even to the groin area) and as this occured, the pain improved. It took 6-7 months for improvement.

And believe it or not, but it happened a second time after me taking another garlic pill. Stupidly I considered it was too strange for the garlic to be responsible the first time around and decided "it could not have been that" and suffered the same thing a second time. Once bitten twice why? I had to be bitten twice.

I didn't get the dehydrated sensation around the waist line, but I do get excessive thirst quite often which again, can either be increased toxicity OR the process of detoxification. I have certainly experienced that and when I am on the diet and have been for a long time and excessive thirst starts up, it is usually a pretty good sign. Though at the time, it doesn't feel like that

This infection has been horrific to say the least and is interferring even now with my efforts to work.