How do you know if the infection is clearing up - x-rays, blood tests, ct scans?
Can someone lead a normal life if the infection has severly damaged the lungs?
Can the lung repair itself?
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Mysandra
Mysandra
Candida
They are going to do a cat scan in another week to see if the medicine diflucan is working. They have to do a liver test in the morning to make sure diflucan isnt causing me to have liver problems.
I was in the hospital since august 26 and it took them 2 weeks to diagnose it. It did not show up on my x-rays but it did show up on my cat scan. With them not knowing what it was at first they put me in isolation for 3 days in the hospital testing me for tb, hiv, and about 50 other disease I never heard off. When it all came back negative and the cultures came back they realized it was candida. They then put me on iv therapy for a week and then sent me home.
The medicine makes me sick to my stomach but I dont have the pneumonia symptoms I had in the beginning. Also after everything I have been through and all the different diagnoses they gave me in the beginning I have started to have panic attacks everytime something new hurts because then I think im dieing and that im never going to get better.
I have to take the medicine for 2 months. My only concern is if it will stay gone once im done. I have read many things and it seems to me it is something that never goes away.
I would just like to talk to someone going thru the same thing.
Yeast infection
One more thing, lace all your food with garlic because that is a yeast enemy. In the lab yeast cannot grow when garlic is present. Sugar in all its forms is yeasts best friend.
Candida In the Lungs
this is a very hard disease to get rid off.
We have tried everyting as well. Diflucan, primaxin (done intraveneously), sporanox, amphertericin b (done intraveneously). You name it we have tried it. It seems that the fungus is developing a resistance to all the anti-biotics.
We are still trying though as giving up is not the answer. We keep praying and asking god to heal the lungs as they are severly damaged from the fungus. The use of a ventilator is in use right now to have some type of lung function. I hope that your situation improves and would not reach to the stage where surgery is needed.
Kindly reply if you can.
I am so sorry to hear that yours has progressed so far. I do hope that you get better.
I am yet to find anything out about candida pnuemonia, I have searched everything I can find but there is not to much info about it. I am scared because I feel so bad all the time, the medicine makes me sick and now im congested again, with terrible body aches. If it were not for my kids I think i'd want to just die sometimes, since I feel like it anyway and I cant do anything. As a mother right now im not a very good one because I am so tired all the time. But I pray also that this will pass and I will get better.
How did you find out you had it??? Does yours show up on xray??? Some days I think yes I feel great then an hour later it feels like someone beat me with a frying pan. But today I felt bad all day. I would go back to the hospital but I dont want to leave my kids and almost all the veins in my arms are blown from the last stay there anyway and im scared that just because I feel like im dieing that I might really be dieing and I am not ready yet. I dont even know how I got this disease???
Sorry I am emotional today like I said I dont feel well. I know you sound worse off than me and I am so sorry for your pain you sound strong I am sure you will pull thru I will put you in my prayers.
How long have you been sick if you dont mind me asking???
Have you had to get surgery yet?? If so did it not help is that why you are on the ventilator??? I am scared.
Lung Yeast
I take lamisil. Have been on sporonox-diflucan amphotericinb etc....Lamisil works best for me... I use combivnet inhaler and also take singulair...
A cleaned up diet really helps but his is extremly difficult. I use a juicer when I am really "on" and in tune. However nothing beats it. You just have to learn to live with it......
I also use a waterpik to wash sinuses out. I put a few drops of hydrogen peroxide in the water to irrigate sinuses with.....Drink braggs apple cider vinegar too....
Hang in there
Thanks
Where do you get the waterpick thing you were talking about???? Can you get it at a osco???
Have they ever took you off the medicine??? If so how long were you able to be off it before they put you back on it again??? If I have to go back on it i'll ask them about the lamisil next time. Thank you!!!!
Fungal Lung Infection
Essentially what happens is the yeast is in your stomach and do to immune system malfunction it thrives there. Your sinuses produce mucous as that drips in to stomach and helps to control the yeast. Unfortunately the constant running in sinuses provides the moist home the fungus loves so it migrates there. At night the constant drip ends up in lungs and your bronchials inflame to keep out the mucous. So this produces sino-bronchial syndrome--an asthma like condition whihc makes it hard to breathe. You will notice the relief from inhaler is very short lived....
I ended up on lamisil by acident as none of the docs would prescribe it for me. Finally my athletes feet became so bad they put me on it. My inhaler usage cut in half after 30 days. I was on it fourteen months one time. I was off 5 months and breathing got really bad. I just went back on it....
You can get your watrerpik at ebay... go to ebay and search "waterpik dental" u need the wp-60 system and should be able to get it for under 30. You will need a "grossan tip" ........ Do search on grossan sinus irrigator tip.......They are around 18 bucks and snap into the waterpik ...
I would also advise to get some good coconut oil and ingest three tablespoons daily...It helps to control yeast....
You can alternate sinus irrigator with many items to hwelp;;;;;;try a product called alkalol which u can order thru the rite aid pharmacy....It is 2.79 a bottle...Mix 4 oz with water in the irrigator.......U can also do a solution iof betadeine-salt-baking soda..... Alternate the three----get the hydrogen peroxide at health food store---get food grade---be careful with this stuff---it is 35% pure 10 times more pwoerful than what u buy at drug store....
Good luck!
Good luck........
They also dont know why the whites of my eyes turned blue or why the skin on my lips keep peeling they just decided to blame it on self mutilation even though I dont rub my eyes or bite my lips they gave me prozac for that but I am not taking it because I know thats not my problem but drs. Dont want to listen they have to act like they know everything.
But thanks for your help I really appreciate the sinus tid bit.
I have another question do you get dizzy alot even when your breathing is fine. I cant seem to kick this problem if I could id feel alot better but maybe its part of my sinus problem also??? I dont know ive never been sick before and this is all knew besides like the 24 hr flu ive never had a problem so im completely dumb about all of this
once again thank you for your help
Try this to see if it helps........Go to the health food store and buy a bottle of braggs apple cider vinegar.........Start drinking an ounce or so in a glass of water first thing in the morning and last thing at night...
Also drink an ounce in a glass of water before you eat each meal. If this helps you it is a good sign yeast is the problem...( yes! It has to be bragg's---bragg's has the mother in it---it is not strained.......Avoid all other vinegars)
you need to really avoid sugars and starches ( I am very good at giving this advice and very bad at following it!---dont be like me)
doctors are trained to treat the diseases of years ago. In order to treat your disease you have to do it yourself. So get on the net ans start searching........Most docs do not recognize any fungal diseases....
here is how I found my doctor..........I got on the internet and got a bucnch of ent's phone numbers and started calling them. I wanted to find one who was familiar with the mayo clinics findings on fungal sinusitis.......When I finally found one I went to her........She sent me for cat scans which showed my sinuses [packed--then I showed her how I drained them by lying upside down--she sent me to my present doctor who is an immunologist---as it turns out all the ent's send their worst sinus patients to him. He also has a constant sinus infection sufferer and has fungal issues...]
good luck
if u need anything else just write!
the fungus will show up from time to time in your sputum but if it shows up once it is there all the time. There really is no reliable tests to confirm the disease.....You can do the full panel i(g) 's (a,e,g,m) and they may or may not find them.
You can also go to the curezone and possibly find some things which help
in all honesty the docs are not much help....I been doing this all my life and I am 58........It really gets a lot worse once you reach 47 or so....
Yeah I have already heard about the starch and sugar thing but that cuts out 90% of my diet intake I am trying though. But with out the starch and sugars there isnt really to much left to eat unless your a rabbit. :wink:
thank you!!!
Candida In Lungs... Or Allergies?
i've suffered from chronic, long-term (decades!) lung plegm/throat clearing and was also diagnosed with colon candida about 15 years ago. But I don't know how to get rid of this lung problem. I've tried to figure it out and have tried quite a few things and can't figure it out. I was thinking it might be candida-related, but from reading about "pulmonary candidiasis," it sounds like I should have a fever and be real sick, which i'm not.
So now i'm thinking if it might be some kind of intestinal dysbiosis or maybe food allergies or bad food combining or bacterial infection... Or???
Any ideas/comments greatly appreciated!!
-michael
Hello
I was just sick on and off for about a year and a half or two years then I got the pneumonia and it lasted about 2 months. I ate antibiotics for the whole duration like it was candy and it got to the point alot didnt do a thing for me anymore. I really dont think the diflucan helped that much for anything. I just had to get in the right attitude that im sick and there is not a darn thing thats going to make me feel 100 percent anymore and I just have to live with it. The only thing im taking right now is the stuff for my stomach because the diflucan messed up my stomach really bad.
Like I said before no one really knows what I have but it is the only thing that showed up on any of the test the took. But none of the drs. Really think thats what it is and ive seen about 5 or 6 so far. They can give me a whole list of what its not though. They keep wanting to tell me its a auto immune disease but ive been tested for them all and they are all negative. So I guess the hardest part is not really knowing. I have good days were im feeling 90 % then the next day i'll just lay in bed all day. It is a very hard disease.
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Re: Candida Fungal Infection In the Lungs
| clseerattan wrote: |
| How do you get rid of candida fungal infection in the lungs? How do you know if the infection is clearing up - x-rays, blood tests, ct scans? Can someone lead a normal life if the infection has severly damaged the lungs? Can the lung repair itself? |
Do your xrays appear as something is growing around the bronchial tree? My Dr. Did a bronchoscopy and found what was growning was large amounts of white mucous? Can this be fungus from being asthmatic with sinusitis and allergic rhinitis ,using a oral steroid spray all the time?
Lungs And Fungal Infection, Candida? What My Doc Said + Did
I've always had chronic bronchitis, sinusitis, 1 bout of pneunomia 20 yrs. ago. Bronchitis got REALLY bad 10/07. Went to an Allergist, got chest x-ray (showed nothing), sputum was + for Candida (?was it from antibiotics prescribed for Bronchitis or fungal infection?) Had a CT Scan... showed pea sized growth on lung + spidery 'legs' She mentioned cancer. BUT thinks it's not cancer. Thinks FUNGAL infection which is 'no walk in the park either'... I've been referred to a Pulmonologist for further testing this coming week.
I asked YOUR questions: Doc said Candida can be treated by meds. either orally or intravenously depending on severity. It also may require surgery to remove a mass. Doesn't really ever go away - damaged lung tissue and scarring. Requires regular check ups and BIG TIME healthy regimen to keep immune system in top notch condition. I sympathize with you and will keep you posted, my appt. is Jan. 2nd, 08
Lungs And Fungal Infection, Candida? What My Doc Said + Did
I've got lung cancer too and have some kind of infection. The doctor says these infections are pretty rare. I do have weakened immune system but still...have you already tried antibioitics?
Hard choices
Candida
JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU
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