Candida is such a nasty parasitic yeast and once you get it and don’t treat it right away it can make itself at home in your body living off of you and what you eat. Most people do not realize that their symptoms are a result of Candida and like me do nothing about it for many years.

Going to a primary care physician about Candida can be very frustrating because they don’t seem to be very informed about it. I asked my physician about this study that shows how Candida can cause anemia in its host by utilizing its iron for growth. To this day he has not gotten back to me.

Here is a medical study that found that giving Probiotic Treatment to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome patients helped to reduce their anxiety. This study shows that there is a Gut and Brain relationship.

From the article:

“(Subjects) felt less anxious, they felt calmer, they felt better able to cope with their illness, they were sleeping better, had less heart palpitations and less symptoms of anxiety,” she said.

Candida Yeast can also be a cause of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

I just found it upsetting when I was asking the doctor about Candida Symptoms and Candida Treatment options that I was given a prescription for Prozac. Drugs for the anxiety and OCD would do nothing at treating the CAUSE of my symptoms. It would just be a band aid solution. I urge everyone to be crusaders for their own health.

To your health and wellness,

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The past week has been pretty rough for me. I went to the doctor for some issues regarding sleep and anxiety. I have been working on getting better sleep so that I can increase my energy levels and decrease my stress.  Stress increases cortisol and cortisol increases blood sugar levels and then the body responds by increases insulin levels. Insulin is the fat storing hormone and I am working hard at getting rid of this belly fat.

However, I have suffered from anxiety all my life. It is crippling. I don’t know if you want to know all of my hidden anxieties but they are the reason I am who I am today.

Anxiety has crippled me in so many ways… I dropped out of high school three times because of anxiety. If I fell behind in school it was just too much for me to catch up so I would quit. I am not able to be employed because of anxiety. I had chronic neck and shoulder tension to the point that it became painful. I became self-employed by cleaning houses and that was a lot to handle too. I work from home now and still the stress and anxiety does not go away. I have anxieties over safety for my kids. This is a big one because it is constant.

I finally want to be “normal”. I want to be able to fall asleep without worrying.  I would love to not fret over the little things. The lack of sleep definitely increases the volume of the anxiety.

I went to see my doctor over these issues and we talked about it. He recommended some blood work to be done and he prescribed some anti-anxiety pills and sleeping pills. Now, I do not like taking prescription drugs but I thought that the anxiety and lack of sleep were negatively affecting my health. So I filled the prescription.

Normally when you fill the prescription at the pharmacy you get pamphlet that tells you about the drug you are taking. My prescription never came with one. I figured that I should just take the anxiety pill (Effexor) before I chickened out. I took it after breakfast and felt fine until about lunch. That is when I started to feel really bad. I had back and neck tension, my head started to feel tight and my facial muscles became tight. My hands were shaky. My mind went into hyper perceptive mode. And I became agitated.  It was weird! I looked up the Effexor website and checked out their info and found out that you are not supposed to take Effexor if you have been taking St. John’s Wort. Well I had been taking St. John’s Wort the day before! Taking both can cause Serotonin Syndrome which can be potentially life threatening.  I looked up Serotonin Syndrome on Wikipedia and it looked like I had the mild symptoms.

I called the Doctor’s office and they were closed. I called the tele-health phone number and they were closed. I finally called the pharmacist and she finally called me back in the evening after her customers were gone and only recommended weaning off the the St. John’s Wort.  ( I would have gone to the hospital if I was starting to feel worse but the muscle tension was easing slightly throughout the day)

I did not take any more Effexor pills or St. John’s Wort. It took me a full two days to recover.

The lesson learned here is to tell your doctor about all the vitamins and herbals you are taking as well as any concerns you may have. I found through this research on Effexor that it is a drug that is very hard to come off of. I only want to take medication as a short term solution.  This is a concern that I will have to address with my doctor (actually I don’t think I will take Effexor again).

I am looking forward to the results of my blood work so then I can find out why I am feeling so poorly.

To your health and wellness,

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