Rosie,

Sorry to hear that Heather is still fighting with Candida.

It appears that Heather and I were almost parallel in our treatment, although we had different paths.

It has been more than 6 months since my diagnosis. I have gone through the lengthy surgery and the harsh radiation / chemo treatment, losing 48 lbs of my body weight. I had infections every month in Oct, Nov and Dec. My chemotherapy had to be halted for more than a week when I was hospitalized to drain the abscess. Because of the repeated infections, my Doctor is concerned that the infection may eventually get into my jaw bone causing osteomyelitis. I have done nuclear scan of jaw bone early this year and seen infectitious doctors for the infections and I am in the middle of Hyperbaric oxygen treatment right now. Three weeks ago, fearing of drug addiction, I stopped my OxyContin pain medicine and it left me with pretty strong withdraw symptom.

To make it short, I have not felt normal at all after 6 months of treatment. It seems to me the problems just came one after another and I start to wondering what will be the next. All I can do is to tell myself be patient and to deal with them one at time.


WZ