Well, to me it's a mystery. I don't understand why for one person it hurts and another it helps. I think you ought to listen to your body. Though either way, I'd be wary of cilantro, since it apparently chelates brain mercury and is better used later once the body levels are down.

Sean, so far my response to attacking yeast with products has not proven helpful. Diet has ALWAYS been reliable and never harmful, only helpful. However, my experience with antifungals and probiotics has been the opposite.

Each time there has not just been "die off" but I seem to have a worse problem than when I started and often wind up having to be even stricter on the diet as a result. Whether this means the yeast adapts or returns stronger than before because of being attacked directly, or whether it's toxicity.

I am uncertain. But certainly for me it's been quite disastrous and my recent impact from probiotics is another example. Though I stopped taking them, I have been left with worse toxicity and sadly, my already restricted diet may now need to exclude raw nuts and acidophilus yoghurt. Once they were ok, after probiotics, they seem to be feeding the yeast as well as sugar.

That's the outcome I have had from probiotics. I'm still hoping for improvement, but so far nothing. It's been many weeks now. I'm living on exclusively meat and low carbohydrate vegetables. Whereas before, I was at least able to snack on raw nuts and sugar free acidophilus yoghurt.

I do not think I'll be trying anymore antifungals/probiotics, because frankly I don't know what I'm dealing with. I haven't really experienced much positives from either, if anything much negatives.

I think also that my condition maybe somewhat unique in respect to virus/infections, which maybe compounding problems and causing such unusual reactions to supplements (garlic is another one). So I can't really relate my experience to other people, since theirs could be entirely different and very positive.

I feel also that there is a way of treating/curing candida that must be done correctly in the correct stages in order to yield proper results. I have not done this completely. And certainly though I no longer tolerate nuts or yoghurt, it appears that they are not really so great anyway for a person with candida and can indeed feed yeast. I'm angry at giving them up, but at the sametime, if I wish to do the diet completely, then it maybe necessary anyway.

The stages are very necessary. Eliminating one of the stages may lead to nowhere. Since they appear to be very important in curing this condition.

Diet is first and that must be adhered to completely, or the person will usually continue to struggle. ONce the person has been on the diet properly for (possible months) a time, they may THEN be able to graduate to a stronger antifungal agent. If the person gets too much die off from that, they may need to stop and stick with the diet alone for awhile longer before trying again.

Only the last stage is implanting good bacteria and even then it must only be done once the first two stages have been done fully and for long enough that die off has warn off. If the probiotics cause too much negative effects, the person isn't ready for them.

Sadly, I rushed in and took them and the effects have been nothing short of disastrous. It would have been better had I never taken them and left things alone, than ending up how I am now. Diet alone is better than messing around and winding up a mess from taking products like this and winding up worse than when you started.