I have been dealing with candida overgrowth for over 20 years now. For about the last 15 years I have had these extreme issues with my skin. At its worst I could lay in bed at night and just peel off skin left and right. The pieces would be about the size of half of a dime. Whether I did this or not my sheets would be filled with skin all the time and by the end of a day the inside of my clothes would be as well. It covers my entire torso and up the back of my neck, with a milder version on face arms and legs that is not really noticeable to anyone other than me.
I have used so many supplements over the years for the candida, but none did anything for the skin aspect of my symptoms and to be honest most just knocked back the candida far enough that I felt a little better (after the die off reaction). I have used garlic, pau d arco, caprylic acid, lactoferrin, massive quantities of probiotics, fungal defense, oregano oil, citronella oil, black walnut hull, colloidal silver, and several others that I am not recalling at the moment.
The most recent is Candex. The Candex is nice because there are no die off symptoms. When I take Candex (two at night, two in the morning) and stay on a very low carb diet (low enough to keep me in ketosis) The skin condition starts to clear up in 8-12 weeks. This is the only product, even in combination with diet that has accomplished this. However if I start to eat enough carbs to be out of ketosis, even if it isn’t a lot (like 50 grams) the skin stuff comes back in about 2 weeks. Candex alone without the diet restriction does nothing for the skin stuff.
When I heard about MMS I thought this is something worth trying, it is cheap too. The Candex costs about 60.00 a month and still requires me to be on such an extreme diet that I can’t maintain it for more than a few months at a time. My family started the MMS and we were working up in drops when my brother Randy hit the wall and got really sick. I hadn’t gone up in drops that day through a little serendipity. I thought if someone in the family was going to get sick it would be me. I know a thing or two about the herxheimer die off reaction, having been through it more times than I can count, in more than 20 years of attempting to wipe this stuff out. The whole family decided to back off and create a much slower MMS protocol for ourselves. Now I am on day 19 and am taking 6 drops. I’m about ready to go up to 7 drops but I am also on the verge of starting my period so I may stay at six for a couple more days as I often don’t feel well the day before and the first day of my period.
These photos are of my skin a couple of days ago. The light wasn’t wonderful but this is a little of what it looks like as it is dying out. I purposely have not been eating low carb to see what the MMS could do regardless of my diet. Considering the fact that I will not be at full dose of the MMS until I am taking 15 drops morning and evening this is quite impressive. This stage normally occurs around week 9 (63 days) of Candex and extreme diet restrictions. So at day 19 only (only 5 days of which I have been at the 6 drop level, which is considered just a maintenance level dose) my body is already this far along with no eating restrictions. Amazing! It has also cleared more in the last two days as well. Somewhere in my box of negatives I have some photos that were taken back in late 1999 or early 2000 that show it at it’s worst. When I can dig them out and get them scanned I will post them for comparison.
So at this point in time I would say the MMS is doing it’s thing quite well and I am looking forward to reporting more great results. I haven’t had any bad symptoms using the slow approach so things are looking good.
This one is from a year or so ago it wasn’t as bad as it gets but it shows better how it gets this patchy look. As it clears and the skin stops shedding so extremely it will have these large red welt like areas that will then start to clear one patch at a time leaving areas of clear skin until it is finally all gone.
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August 2, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Joe
Great info. I learned a lot of new things here. I hope you’re doing well
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October 29, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Linda Hecht
thanks for your interesting post of july ’08 – I am wondering if you would be willing to post an update and let us know if indeed mms can kick canadida butt once and for all.
thanks again.
November 8, 2009 at 6:03 am
Engtovo
For me it didn’t and that was because the mms itself was really rough on me long term. I think it did me a lot of good but I am having more success actually using iodine in the form of Iodoral and am strongly feeling that long term iodine deficiency (complicated by my iodine receptors getting filled with other halides like chlorine fluoride and bromide in the absence of sufficient iodine) set up the perfect environment for the candida overgrowth. Iodine is antiviral and antifungal and also good at killing various bacteria so it is a important component of our overall health. The RDA is micrograms and the newest research is saying we need many milligrams. Every cell in our body contains a iodine receptor I can’t believe that is some kind of mistake!
A secondary thing I am doing that seems to be working very quickly on many aspects of the long term candida skin stuff is a combination of antifungal / antiviral essential oils applied to the soles of the feet.
The best part about that is that the antifungal substances in the oils get into the blood stream in about 20 minutes and by bypassing the digestive system there isn’t any digestive upset and the antifungals get to the troubling places they are really needed. Often times antifungals taken orally never get into the blood stream at high enough levels because the gut is impaired by leaky gut syndrome and the body can’t digest what you are taking and spread the antifungal aspect through the body.
I think for someone who could tolerate the mms at large enough doses long enough it would make a big impact, but I have always had a sensitive stomach to begin with. I still stand by Candex as one of the best over the counter holistic products for candida as well. It is high levels of enzymes that actually digest the candida and the way it does prevents the candida from releasing toxins so there is no herxheimer reaction. I don’t think it really gets out of the digestive tract though and if you have fungus deep in the skin like I do topicals are too weak and it is hard to get an internal thing out to the skin level.
I will post more on the essential oil work I only put together a recipe a couple weeks ago and the first few days I was feeling the effect strong enough that I was only applying every 2 to three days and I just started everyday three days ago. I can see the improvement in that short time. I am working on my diet but I am not on a strict anti-candida diet I am getting 80-100 carbs a day and eating clean fruits, veggies meat, no processed stuff and no artificial sweeteners etc.
December 2, 2009 at 6:02 pm
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I am on 15 drops mms three times a day (the last two days), and am still boating, and having skin issues. not sure if mms will work. Skin has definitely not improved so far
January 9, 2010 at 6:28 am
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