Hi. I’m currently on Sof/Led HepCVirL on day 38 of 84 and have developed a pretty bad yeast infection in the past two weeks. I have seen my doctor about it and he has prescribed Fluconazole 150mg for 6 days. It seems to work but only temporarily. As a man, I didn’t think I could ever develop a yeast infection in the genital area but it happened. My doctor seems to think that Sof/Led may be causing my natural intestinal flora to become unbalanced. Today I had severe bloating, brain fog, lethargy and just overall malaise. I have in the past 5 weeks of treatment been very responsive to the medication as my viral load has dropped from 1.5 million to 30. It didn’t happen without hiccups. I have had pretty much every single side effect documented so far but I’m hanging on. 7 more weeks and I will be through this. I’m extremely grateful to the Angels I met online including Greg Jefferys and Dr James Freeman who made the delivery of generic Harvoni possible. I’ll never have enough words to thank you guys.

I just hope that this candida issue can be resolved soon and that I don’t have to go through it for the duration on my treatment.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated and I have found this side effect to be a little bit overwhelming. Thank you

Hi Ariel

I’m glad to hear that yoghurt helps.

Bear in mind that not all yoghurts are equal. The best ones are the natural pot-set ones with live ABC cultures (i.e Lactobacillus acidophilus, bifido bacterium, and lactobacillus casei).

I love yoghurt and regularly eat Mundella Premium yoghurt. It’s well known here to be the best, and to have the highest count of probiotic bacteria per 100ml, but I don’t think that it is sold outside of WA. Its ingredients are listed as: whole milk, non-fat milk solids, and live cultures. In general, yoghurt quality reduces as the list of ingredients grows. The next best pot-set yoghurt is VAALIA. See:

http://www.drdingle.com/yoghurt-report/

“Unfortunately many of the yoghurts tested had low probiotic bacteria counts. In particular, the large commercial yoghurts had as little as 9,000 times fewer probiotic bacteria than the brand Mundella. This is largely due to the way the yoghurt is made. Mundella is “pot set,” that is the bacteria are cultured in the containers in which they are sold. The highest count of 18 billion bacteria per 100ml serving was found in Mundella. These levels are in excess of most of the probiotc powders one can purchase from a chemist or health food store.”

The table below shows the number of live bacteria per 100 grams.

Yoghurt Bacteria per 100ml

SKI 2,000,000
UNCLE TOBYS 120,000,000
JALNA 300,000,000
YOPLAIT 410,000,000
BROWNES 600,000,000
NESTLE 1,300,000,000
VAALIA 11,000,000,000
MUNDELLA 18,220,000,000

I hope that this helps.

Cheers

GT2

Thanks GT2
Jalna is my yoghurt of choice

Sucks to have mouth thrush- bet those powders would taste rank illy:' />

These links are excellent, thanks heaps buddy. I cant do garlic since peginf, or asparagus actually, but can do onions….it has made me intolerant to tomatoes as well isn’t that weird!
I was just chatting with another member here about the joys of two nights following a faint whiff of garlic sauce I suspect in a wrap I ate last week…but….I did but Nilstat drops early today and I have now done two washes as directed of a mil each and my tongue is starting already to look pink not white. Yep it was thrush like a baby gets!
Being that rationalising type that I am, I rekn if my liver is going t behave like a baby (ha, bragging here ALT <9) well my big mouth obviously wants to join in and behave like a baby too. The last time I bought these drops was during breastfeeding days many moons ago and were for my baby. The cherry taste is not exactly a fine wine..

Re Garlic, I hope Mgalbrai has a clove around his neck whilst on hols in Transylvania mwahahahahahahaha

Hi Ariel

The absolutely best yoghurt that you can eat is the one that you make yourself.

Two other Tasmanians show you how in the link below:

http://www.sbs.com.au/food/recipes/homemade-yoghurt

I’ve done this, with a few twists of my own, after trial & error, and I guarantee that you will never find a better yoghurt in any shop …

OmGosh YUMMMMMMM

Hi Price

Thanks for your input.

I have unintendedly taken this thread off subject. Dr Freeman started off talking about thrush caused by candida which growth can increase when antibiotics kill off lactobacilli. He mentioned that the antivirals that we take shouldn’t be a problem, however, he then went on to offer excellent advice on how to get rid of thrush if you do have it from some other cause.

Ariel commented that she has thrush in her mouth and gums and found that yoghurt soothed her sore mouth. I had mentioned to her earlier that I had experienced increased gum bleeding after starting DAA treatment. She asked me to check out this thread. I should have just read it and not commented. I don’t have a yeast infection. I’m controlling my gum problems by cleaning my teeth after every meal and washing my mouth with the antibacterial mouthwash “Listerine Total Care”. This works for me.

I have Barrett’s oesophagus caused by long-term gastro-oesophageal reflux. I used to be on PPIs. I’ve since changed my diet, including eating good quality yoghurt on most days, and do not take PPIs now and can’t remember the last time I had any sort of reflux or heart burn. So, I was just putting that out there, knowing that a lot of HCV sufferers are on PPIs.

My fasting 11.9 blood sugar was a definite worry to me. It’s never been this high before. Another forum member, Hope, told me that this happened to her as well. Her glucose level was high at week 4, was OK by week 8, and fine at EOT. See:
http://fixhepc.com/forum/patient-stories/659-afraid-to-take-the-meds-due-to-severe-anxiety.html?start=90

This seems to have happened to me. For the first 5 weeks I was extremely thirsty and had to get out of bed during the night, every night, and urinate one or twice. I’d wake up most mornings with a dry mouth. Since then, these symptoms have dissipated. Over the last 8 weeks I have lost 5% of my body weight and now very rarely get up to urinate during the night and never wake up with a dry mouth. I’ve posted an article today about fatty liver disease from my local newspaper, in which Assoc. Prof. Leon Adams notes that:

“Losing 10 per cent of your body weight by modifying diet and increasing exercise would reverse the condition for 90 percent of people.”

See:
http://fixhepc.com/forum/gt2/994-gt2-honks-his-horn-and-says-hello.html?start=90#17396

I’m a living testament to Assoc. Prof. Adam’s prediction. Hopefully, I can lose another 5% of my beginning body weight over the next 8 weeks. Proof in the pudding will be in 8 weeks when my next blood tests are due (EOT + 4 weeks). I’ll post them. If my fasting glucose level is still too high, I will follow Dr Freeman’s advice and get a script for metformin.

Regards
GT2