Hi MTEcho:
First let me start by saying that I don't think my private messages are getting to you - I get some queer box that says *READER RECIPIENT's REQUEST?* or something odd like that and then it appears to send something to you. I know I am probably not supposed to give our my email address in this public forum but I don't know what else to do
As to the antibiotics (I know it appears a little late). If you took the Probiotics WHILE you were taking the antibiotics, you likely were replacing the *friendly* bacteria in your gut. If however, you started the probiotics afterward you need a two step process. You will need to kill off the newly constructed yeast with something like caprylic acid, grape fruit seed extract, etc and then later in the day, take the probiotics.
Why? Imagine there are only 100 seats in your gut and 80 of them were occupied by *friendly* bacteria and 20 of them were the yeast. The antibiotic comes in and wipes a BUNCH of the bacteria out (but doesn't touch yeast) and very quickly there are say 60 empty bacteria seats for the yeast to occupy, so they get busy multiplying in short order and take up the new spots. Now you have 80 yeast seats and only 20 bacteria seats (not good). Now you have to actively KILL the yeast off, so you can send the probiotics (friendly bacteria) down the gullet and fill those seats back up. That is also why you have to avoid sugars and *fermented* yeasty foods because they will help the yeast hold their seats (feels like a lesson in *gut congress*).
It actually can get uglier from here - the yeast can *morph* into a more complex form of fungus and make these *vein like* strands that puncture your intestine walls and make the yeast go SYSTEMIC into your blood stream and also cause undigested food to enter the blood stream and develop into food intolerances and/or food allergies. Fun huh? It's true and it happens.
I'm not sure when mine all started but when I was 6 I had pneumonia and the docs were losing the battle on my seondary infections. They gave me broadspectrum antibiotics for many, many weeks. I survived but I do recall after that episode my siblings always commenting on how I used to be *nicer* before the pneumonia and I had a STRONG desire for breads after that (I would sneak it at bedtime). I'm sure I already had an existing milk allergy and my mother believe strongly in milk as a drink in our house (had it everyday of my young life).