It was my GP. For months I had the stmptoms of Candida, fatigue, bloating, stomach cramps, irritability, intching below and so on and I kept going back and she kept giving me Diflucan a toxic medication when used long term
One day I asked her if she could do a smear and find out for certain if this was Candida, and immediately she new it had turned to Candidiatis.
If you have ever seen a babies bottom when they have Candida, well that what my bum looked like LOL
Anyway she took the sample anyway, and a blood test and both test showed I had a severly high level of Candida.
Now the diflucan did work and she told me I could take high doses of this along with Nystatin to see it off. But when I read up on it I found that in vunerable people the Candida can actually become immune to the medication. I asked around on the Internet and this lady told me her daughter had resistant Candidiatis and that she was loosing her marbles with it big time
I went on Bees board, not Bees site, she has a board where folk chat, a bit like we do here, about their symptoms and so on
Two ladies there both had children with Candida and their children had developed Autism because of it. I sat back and watched for weeks whilst these to women came on the board each night discussing their childrens nightmares
They were sating how their children screamed all night, banged their heads against the wall, refused food, were years behind in development and so on. But only a few weeks into the program both women started to report miraculous chnages in their childrens health
One womans child was further on thatn the other womans child and she was basically guiding the other woman through the program.
Each time her child had a reaction from trying to get well with this the other woman new this was not a Candida symptom be a symptom from healing and reasured the other woman that these things were signs that the child was getting well
I wento onto the program and I foud I started to get headaches and nausea and tingle in my legs and lots of other strange stuff happening but hbecause I had heard the woman speaking to the other woman about healing reactions I saw this through and only a few week later my rash on my bottom had clear, so had the itching and bloatedness etc
I felt really good and a few months later I decided I could reintroduce some of the foods i had been holding back on
Well I was wrong the Candida returned and it was just as bad if not worse than thef first time
So I returned to Bees board and started over. I have remained on the restricted sugar regime right up to this day
Anyway, regarding tests, Dr mercola explains some of that here
http://search.mercola.com/Results.aspx?q=candida&k=candidaLove Joanne
