Sean, I see what you're saying. But I don't believe the diet is designed just to suppress symptoms because it's always worked for me in the past to such an extent that I eventually was able to cheat without too much of an impact as my immune system got stronger and further toxins were removed.

However, since having a course of antibiotics over 2 years ago, all that changed. And now I have a stubborn problem with it, where one even mild cheat will cause a complete relapse.

The diet removes what the candida needs to grow and thrive - it is about building up the immune system, increasing the ability to detox, not just removing its food source, which is what the diet does. It's necessary for me to get through each day. However, if it were not for the yeast, I'd be including far more in my diet like fruits and grain, but I cannot do so. Once before I was this ill, I was still able to consume high carbs, so long as I excluded sugar and wheat/gluten and yeast. I was luckier then.

Cheating hurt at the time, but I recovered quickly back then. Plus I was very mercury toxic and the mercury was suppressing immunity, so the diet helped counteract it to a point.

These days it's different because my condition is different, situation differs and I'm far more vulnerable. I am sure I will need more than the diet, because of the antibiotics as well. However, again it's immune related also and down to underlying factors (whether mercury/viral or otherwise).

Yeah, I agree with you that in serious cases of persistant infection, one may need to go further and use an antifungal and later probitiocs once the yeast has been killed off further. I am fearful that my yeast may come back even stronger or become immune to further efforts I make (e.g. become resistent to the antifungals etc). I was put on an antifungal many years ago and I was very ill from it and the ill effects continued and I would often vomit. Finally they took me off it and I simply stayed on the diet (though a much looser one) and I was fine.

Though these days, I"m not fine.

One website I am on says the diet in the end is the cure, not antifungals as all they do is kill it off but do nothing to build up the immune system, which is how yeast is kept in balance.....not sure what to think now.

Thanks for your post though. What antifungal would you recommend?