I think I must've had candida symptoms for *years* (as well as signs of insulin resistance). I don't have the candida symptoms any more. I'm certain I'm candida free now. I've made major improvements in my health over the past few years mostly due to a self-directed plan of attack. It's cost me a lot of money due to the fact that my insurance won't cover supplements, or massage therapy or accupuncture. They don't cover much on chiropractic. I also have fibromyalgia and I'm sure I had IBS too. Now that the candida is gone as well as the IBS and most of the fibromyalgia symptoms all I'm left to battle is diabetes, but I'm making improvment in that area too. I do low-carb/high protein and will for the rest of my life. I go to a massage therapist weekly and my chiropractor/kineseologist every 3-4 weeks. I used to also go to an accupuncturist, but I don't feel I need that any more. I did the anti-candida program about 12 years ago and it took quite a while before I was certain it was completely gone, but I did it without any meds for candida and I only took caprylic acid and I drank some tea that was supposed to be good for ridding one of the candida, but I feel giving up all starches/sweets was the 'trick'. I starved it to death. Then built up my friendly gut bacteria so the candida no longer had a welcome environment in which to set up strongholds again. That helped the IBS too. I just wish I'd known more about insulin resistance back then, as I think I just might've been able to stave off the diabetes if I'd attacked it as vigorously as I did the candida. I *should* have continued eating low carb, but a few years after my anti-candida diet I gave in to all the 'hype' about eating high complex carb, low fat, no red meat thing. I ate that way for 14 months when I found I had become a diabetic. I think that eating "healthy" is what made me diabetic, but because I did eat that way (lots of carbs and fruit) for 14 months without a return of candida symptoms I knew I was totally candida free. The symptoms I *did* develop were all consistent with mounting insulin resistance.