meds schedule

Oh popica, I feel your pain! Every time I add a new mediation or supplement, I sit there for hours making a spreadsheet of what I can take and when! But it CAN be done! I have to take CSM twice which means no pills an hour before and 4 hours after...so it's a struggle but...

Normally I take my hormone type pills either as soon as I wake up, or I set an alarm for an hour before I get up. Then I take abx with breakfast - I know it takes some getting used to, but I've found the best thing to do when not eating carbs is to completely discard the concept of traditional breakfast - eat steak or salmon or chicken for breakfast! Eggs are always a good idea, but that gets old pretty fast, I know!

Then an hour later I take my CSM, wait 4 hours, then take all my vitamins, then a few hours later it's dinner, so abx, an hour later - CSM - which gives me 4 hours until bedtime when I take all my bedtime pills (which is pretty much anything there's no room for any other time in the day!

Hope this helps some! And with the carb thing, I know I already said eggs get boring, but I've found it really helpful to have hard boiled eggs handy, as they're a pretty easy "on the go" type of food for taking pills.

Hi popica,

Going low carb is a very reasonable aim. What you are trying to do is get as much fiber as possible for every bit of carb you take in. So whole grains in their most natural form (ie nothing taken away) is what you are looking for.

Some people who are experiencing trouble with Candida just take all carbs out of their diet. That is a pretty hard thing to maintain, however and many people find they have problems with weight loss and balancing nutrition (in particular getting enough B vitamins.

Above all, you should be looking at what you can ADD to your diet in the way of nutritious and yummy food. Remember there is healing in what you eat!

I eat nothing starchy (not even very starchy veggies) I will roast a spaghetti squash in advance and keep it in the fridge ready to go. I eat organic, free range eggs for breakfast daily and throw them on top of the squash, or another veggie like broccoli, zucchini, cabbage, cauliflower, spinach.. I then take my medicine on a full stomach. I get hungry a LOT w/o starch so I will make a salad with some apple cider vinegar (beneficial to your health) and oil and some spices. I also will eat almond butter a lot. I know, its roasted and not soaked( bad for my candida) and sprouted but I am soooo starving. 2 hours after I take my antibiotics I take my probiodics. Then I am starving all day until infer home at night from work and make a protein & veggie an repeat antibiotics and probiodics schedule. I am soooo sick of this and I should probably add a carb in here and there but I'm afraid to. Honestly. I'm not sure what to do. I plan on using an ND on this forum to help me with these decisions.

I have had to make a chart for my med schedule to use for a while until I have it memorized. I also have to organize everything into pill boxes and always have a spare dose set in my purse in case I forget one day.

For diet, I eat completely gluten free but I do eat brown rice and brown rice pasta for carbs. I eliminated most dairy except for occasional cheese and kefir. I do not eat refined sugar either. The only sugar I have occasionally is cane juice in a protein/snack bar.

I'm not a huge meat eater so a lot of my calories have to come from eggs, nuts and the rice and gluten free pasta. I love fruit and veggies, but my appetite is not the best lately on a new protocol, so I have to eat calorie dense foods that are relatively small in volume. The cane juice was allowed by my LLMD because of weight loss and blood sugar issues.

I think diet needs to be individualized for each situation. I find that while eliminating something might help one aspect of my symptoms, losing too much weight is bound to cause additional health problems. I've followed my plan VERY strictly for the past several months.

Does anyone else worry about becoming too obsessed with diet? I've convinced myself that diet is helping things and that it's one of the things I CAN control. I'm kind of an obsessive person, so I hope this doesn't become a problem for me down the road. I'm nowhere's near the end of treatment yet, but in the future I would like to psychologically be okay with eating an occasional dessert or piece of bread without the fear that it will cause a relapse in symptoms.

Summer--yes!!!!! I have major anxiety attacks over food lately. I feel diet is the one thing I can control too and I'm way too afraid to cheat and relapse. Its an awful feeling!! I'm also tiny @ 5'1/5'2 90 pounds soaking wet. I am starving all the time and the only reason I'm not losing a ton of weight is because I'm eating a TON of protein and veggies..nuts.. Still I'm always reading tons of conflicting information on what I can/cannot eat while battling candida and Lyme. It's awful. Summer -- I totally get you!!

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