After 45 years of basically good health, I found myself ill with an apparently undiagnosable illness that left me covered in rashes, exhausted and run down no matter what I tried. Now two years later - with a trail of doctor bills, pills and over the counter treatments behind me, I’ve found a path out of the labyrinth.

By radically modifying my diet (no sugar, dairy, wheat, coffee or black tea, or fruit) and taking grapefruit seed extract, caprylic acid and homeopathic Candida Albicans formula on weekly rotations - my symptoms are disappearing at a steady rate.

I recommend to anyone experiencing supposedly undiagnosable rashes, digestion problems and depressions to take the Candida test and, if it turns out to be appropriate, consider going on the diet and antimicrobial/fungal regime.

For me, a diet so limiting was daunting and rather depressing in and of itself. Surprisingly I feel like I’ve enjoyed my meals and snacks while on the diet more than the satisfaction of my old sugar, dairy, wheat laden diet.

I think it will help me in my path to recovery to document the hard journey both of being chronically ill and of the growing joy at seeing the light of day. I also hope it may help and give hope to any others out there who may wittingly or not have Candida and be struggling with either the symptoms or the cure.

There were many points when I thought there would never be a light at the end of the tunnel but there is!