Please help

[snuggle]

Like many others here, i believe i have intestinal yeast and my DR wont hear of it. I went to the health food store and got a product for parasites and yeast cleanse. And bought coconut oil since i had heard so many good things about it

It has been only 2 weeks since i started using and this morning by BM appeared to have alot of white on the edges.

Could this be yeast exiting my body?

I could not imagine what else would make the BM have white on it?

[bloodstone]

There are a lot of reasons for white appearing in your stools, it can depend on what your eating, medical conditions etc, if you follow the normal chain of thought some people believe it's the yeast.
Who's told you you have a yeast overgrowth and how have you started to deal with this?
Are you U.K or U.S?

[snuggle]

I have white coating on my tongue, chronic vaginal yeast infections, water retention, cant lose weight, chronic constipation, and the list goes on and on and on

i started a candida cleanse a couple weeks, i also use garlic, coconut oil, take a multivitiam, extra magnesium

[bloodstone]

as your posting this time of day i take it your here in the uk.
Your doctor will tell you you need a chronic immune system, ie cancer or aids to have systemic candida, mine offered a shrink.
You obviously have somethinggoing on with you body to experience candida in your mouth are you taking acidophillus tabs not probiotic which is loaded with sugar??? It got rid of it from my mouth, not completely, but it controls it while your work on the rest of what's wrong with you?
The list goes on and on, is great snuggle but if you read some of the posts here they go on and on, you need to specify babe.
What's your allergies?? do you know??
You don't have to have them written in stone, if you think your allergic to something then you probably are, your body knows best!!
Talk to us girl, the more info you give the more help people can be, the more posts you'll get back to help you here.

[snuggle]

I am taking acidophillus twice a day :)
ok here goes....if anyone can help me it would be a god send
and btw...im in the US :)

Cold Hands and Feet
Fingers get so cold they go numb
Low blood pressure 90/50 is average for me
Low body temperature 97.5 or so is average for me
Chronic Constipation
Migraines
Chronic Sinusitus
Acute Asthma
Atrial Septal Defect surgerically corrected age 36
Vericose Veins one leg...left leg
Gallbladder removed due to gallstones in 2000
Right Ovary removed due to hydrosalphinx of my fallopian tube and cysts on ovary
believe it or not i do have regular cycle 28 day between periods
Tried atkins many many times, i give up because i lose less than 10 lbs and no more will come off
my left leg i had veins stripped, that legs swells up 5 out of 7 days a week,
i have a large stomach and enough butt for all of us
i am 5'6 and weight 195 lbs.

never had any weight problems until age 15 when my periods started

at age 19 my first child was born and i was overweight but not until 4 years later after the birth of my second child OMG
i lost weight right after i had her, but then i proceeded to gain over 80 LBS in one year.

i do NOT overeat
i cant lose weight

i can gain 7 lbs in a day, drinks tons of distilled water and pee once or twice a day

i have very dry skin and very dry hair

adult acne, not related to my cycle

reccurant bladder infections

uncomfortable intercourse

i see a chirpractor, i was run over by a drunk driver when i was 5 and was in a body cast for 6 months, just about every bone was broken

terrible pain in my neck, shoulders and lower back


i am so frustrated i want to hit something ...namely my doctor

i have tried antidepressants, and then here is a brain storm
he put me on triamterine...which is a high blood pressure pill
i have LOW BLOOD PRESSURE???

my BM are so rotten smelling you would puke
i have bloating, and terrible rotten egg gas

that is what comes off the top of my head
if i remember more i will post more

[bloodstone]

I'm not surprised you wanna hit something, try a pillow, it wont take you to court and get your house!
I'm guessing if you pee once or twice a day you have odema? it's not listed, but the water has to be going somewhere, which means it's storing in parts of your body due to bad filtration abilities??? have you asked about this? is this a symptom you missed putting down?
Have you had your metals levels checked, ie; copper zinc, selenium, potassium, magnesium etc...???
Are you mercury toxed? fillings? a chipped tooth?
Do you eat lots of fruit and veg? regually?
Do you have allergies? Food, yeast, dairy, soy, nuts, gluten, hayfever? products around your home? dust bunnies?
Not trying to be annoying, trying to be helpful with bigggg picture.
I can understand your frustration, believe me, we've all been there.

[snuggle]

Unknown allergies
i do have mercury fillings in my teeth
all blood test ran and TSH and ect have come back normal
yes odema, water retention all of it :(
i have just started eating low carb, because i do feel i have a yeast problem, i have always eaten lots of fruit and veges, but now just the green veges allowed in low carb eating

[Sunshne24]

my BM are so rotten smelling you would puke
i have bloating, and terrible rotten egg gas


That would indicate malabsorption or something intestinal going on which could lead to many of your other symptoms. Have you been tested for anything? Endoscopy or colonoscopy? What kind of tests have you had? Ever been tested for Celiac? It can cause large, foul smelling Bm's which float, bloating, gas, constipation/diahrrea...etc. I just got diagnosed after thinking I had candida cuz of the white coated tongue and multiple debilitating symptoms. Anyways I realize not *everyone* has Celiac but I'm mentioning it to everyone with similar symptoms cuz I'm eager to help others not suffer as long as I did. :) Its a common disease.

[snuggle]

no endoscopy or colonoscopy

only utrasound

never been tested for celiac

what is celiac?

[Sunshne24]

Its gluten intolerance. An autoimmune disease in which the immune system mistakenly *attacks* gluten as if it were a foreign invader. There are over 200 symptoms associated with celiac and every one of them is also a candida symptom. Your description of your stools is highly suggestive of celiac but of course other things can be possible as well. Celiac affects 1 out of every 133 people in the U.S. so its not rare by any means. Its even more suspect if you have European background such as Irish or Italian. Its prevelance is much higher in Europeans but more rare in Chinese, Japannese and African races. You can read more in the threads titled...To Sunshne24, Can meds alone cure Candida? or Frustraited. Also you can just do a search on Gluten Intolerance or visit Celiac.com. Theres lots of info out there. I had a huge list of symptoms that kept me off work for 2 years...I was only diagnosed 3 weeks ago and most of my symptoms are gone now.

[snuggle]

what kind of test do i need to ask for?
i would like to find out

[snuggle]

i have copies of all my test

i did find this test

total IgE 95

controls
pos 16135
neg 144

they tested 18 items
all the counts were within normal range
they tested
june
common ragweek
lambs quarters
maple
oak, white
cat hair
dog epithelium
cladosporium herbrum
candida albicans
alternaria tenuis
mite
bakers yeast
corn
egg white
egg yolk
milk peanut
wheat

[Sunshne24]

Gluten Intolerance isn't an allergy so it cant be tested for with allergy tests. There are specific tests for it.

The complete blood panel for celiac consists of the following:
Anti-Gliadin (AGA) IgA
Anti-Gliadin (AGA) IgG
Anti-Endomysial (EMA) IgA
Anti-Tissue Transglutaminase (tTG) IgA
Total Serum IgA

For these tests to be accurate a person needs to be eating gluten daily for 3 months prior to testing.
How long have you been on the candida diet? Taking gluten out of the diet for any length can affect the results of these tests.

[Sunshne24]

Its a genetic disease. I would bring up the foul smelling stools...if the doc doesnt think of celiac himself...he sucks...its a classic symptom of the disease. I know some people who have lied to the doc....saying someone in their family has celiac. That was the only way they could get themselves tested since its genetic and a doctor would have to test with a family member having it. If you suspect you could have it and the doctors are uncooperative as far as testing...thats what I'd do. Sometimes they are clueless...my doctor thought I couldnt have celiac based on the fact that I didn't have diarreah. Nevermind all the other symptoms. The truth is less than 1/3 of the people with Celiac actually get diarreah...I had constpation instead. Dumb doctor.

[snuggle]

im not sure as i have been reading symtoms and it seems most are under weight
and i am definitley not that

it is worth checking if they will let me

[Sunshne24]

If you visit the celiac.com message board you will find that MANY of the people there who have Celiac are overweight instead of underweight. That is another reason of people going undiagnosed because of what a doctors opinion of what a celiac *should* look like is. There are no rules.
Read this thread I took from the celiac board..it might help you. http://www.glutenfreeforum.com/index.php?showtopic=183
You may notice a similarity in symptoms.