I'd say under most circumstances, probiotics would be of help. My condition is abnormal and again, I only started having odd responses like this following virus and tooth extraction.

Before that, I didn't have this problem. The only responses I got was die off (which is expected and a sign things are working). And I did ok. Though I always found diet to be enough for me personally. I didn't require ongoing use of antifungals and certainly they were no substitute for the diet.

So to those who do ok with probiotics? Keep on with it, it's no doubt doing good and implanting beneficial bacteria.

However, I will state that the usual method of doing things are in stages and diet/supplements are implemented first to reduce yeast population and improve immunity. This then allows for natural die off to occur, which is often more than enough at first on its own and may take weeks before a person starts to recover. Antifungals do their job better and more thoroughly when yeast is already been weakened and reduced from withdrawing the foods it requires to survive/thrive upon. Antifungals work together with the diet. Then once die off has been reduced from both diet/supplements and later antifungals - then probiotics can be employed to replace good bacteria back in where the overgrowth has been reduced/removed.

There is no point in swallowing antifungals and probiotics if a person continues to feed yeast with their diet. It defeats the purpose. Candida MUST have its food supply reduced significantly. In all the professionals and books on the matter (written by professionals) that I have encountered, diet is of upmost importance and the first stage that is started for any candida victim until they are ready to start antifungals and later probiotics.

Antifungals and probiotics are of help, but they should not be relied upon to do the entire job - they are only supplementary to the diet plan. There is apparently no short cuts to true yeast treatment programmes, despite what some websites might tell you in order to sell a product. Ive seen disappointed people on candida forums who fell such promises and woke up sadder but wiser when they realised there is no magic bullet for this condition, but instead the requirement for efforts on our part to reduce it and control it and hopefully cure it.