My chronic yeast infections were due to endometriosis also. I've posted how I solved this issue and no one seems interested lol. It's so strange. I haven't had any pain in my side--all of my pain has been in the pelvic area and stomach troubles--all attributed to the endo or yeast infections. I had the yeast infections for over 2 years and never had side pain, so I don't think it's associated.

Don't know if this will be any help, but my best recommendation for cravings is to avoid them. Not that a bite of cake here and there is going to hurt, but I try to keep in mind that eating carbs and sugar only makes your body crave more carbs and sugar. So what was once a bite of cake might end up with an entire day of binging b/c it starts the cycle. When I tell myself this before taking that one bite, it helps to fight the craving.

Improve your body pH -- start eating to alkalyze your system -- that will kill the yeast and reduce your pain. Fruit and vegetables alkalyze and improve your pH -- whole grains, beans, are more acidifying but OK in moderation. Meat and sugar are violently acidifying and promote the candida bugs. Vinegar tablets are a way to alkalyze at every meal.

To kill cravings, take Hoodia gordonii or Natrol PMS Control. Gymnema sylvestre works too. They are all miraculous.

Hoodia and vinegar tablets both made me violently ill, but that may have been aggravated by digestive problems I had due to endometriosis. They aren't something that is for everyone. Of course, taking any pills shouldn't be jumped into. I loathe taking any pills myself other than a vitamin. Obviously, I take my daily mineral supplement that has been MY miracle, but it's not a pill! :)

Are vinegar tablets different or better/worse than just taking vinegar? On the Candida diet my son is on, no vinegar except apple cider is recommended....?

The only side pain I experience was from IBS. If that was triggered by yeast or food sensitivity, I don't know. I don't have endometriosis. But I did find drinking green tea helpful and taking hoodia helped to kill a big appitite. The nicest thing I found was eating Blue Agave Nectar in my cereal each morning. It really regulated my out of control appitite. Has a few calories but isn't processed in the body like sugar. Takes all day to breakdown. I would advice candida sufferes to try that sweetener.

Hi, barbmom4, it is very coincidental that I was just looking up information on the very same question and came across your comment. I have been suffering from Candida yeast problems for years also, and my daughter has inherited the same problem from me. Our doctor, or allergist, said that our delayed food allergies were probably due to our Candida yeast problems. From what I have researched throughout the years, it can lead to a variety of other health problems that otherwise might seem unrelated.

I know that I have spontaneous bruising, breathing difficulties, environmental allergies. I used to suffer migraines until I received allergy shots for years to treat the environmental allergies and then they went away. Now I just have occasional pressure on my head when I eat the wrong things. I suffer joint pain and my knees swelling. I have problems with my memory and depression, but it is so worth getting back on your health food diet because every time I do, my symptoms start improving and I start feeling so much better! Just pray to God and don't stop trying! You can do it!

I have recently messed up also and the point I was trying to get to was that recently my daughter and I came up with a new symptom at the exact same time right after both of us were recovering from being sick. We are both suffering pain on our side. She is suffering worse than I am, but my diet is better than hers. I can't help but think that it is most likely related, and if it is not, this sure is a really big coincidence since I found your post and you have the same thing.

If it is not a cause or contributing factor, I sure would be surprised. Don't ever give up on your health, because with God we can do anything! I am struggling to get back on my diet and I can say from past experience that whenever I got my mind set to get well, I had to avoid all foods that caused me to crave or binge and that I know will make my condition worse. Sometimes I have stuck with it for a while and doing so good and then I could hit myself for not sticking with it longer when I was making so much progress. I have to avoid foods that feed the candida and make it worse. If I am eating really well then I can get buy with occasional pure maple syrup on my rice pancakes, so I don't feel totally deprived, and some fresh fruits now and then also.

I am going to keep trying to get back to where I was at and keep making progress. Just keep trying to make progress towards your goal a little at a time if you have to, and eat lots of vegetables! I have a mixture of vegetables that I cook from all fresh produce where I combine mushrooms, green beans, red potatoes; red, yellow, & orange peppers, eggplant, zucchini, tomato, garlic, olive oil, sometimes onion, cauliflower, broccoli, and then I add some water but I don't let it get too soggy. I like my vegetables a little firm still. You can make it with fewer vegetables or more. I have made it in different combinations and the garlic and plenty of olive oil flavor the water juices after it cooks and makes it so delicious that I could practically live on it.

I also buy frozen rice bread. I make fresh spinach omelets (I use my food processor to make the spinach leaves finely ground up). I make rice flour pancakes, and bake chicken removing the skin after it bakes a while and then sprinkling with salt-free Mrs. Dash. I love Muir Glen Organic Garden Vegetable organic pasta sauce to use to dip rice crackers in. I like rice crackers with oysters. I buy rice pasta and all kinds of gluten free products and brown wholegrain rice, of course. The trick is to have plenty of healthy foods on hand at all times to fill up on. I like celery and peanut butter and fresh carrots to munch on also. Don't keep any tempting foods on hand, and if you have to for others in your household, then you will have to learn to avoid them long enough until you can resist them and hopefully your family will not bring anything that is too overwhelming for you not to give into.

When you find a lot of foods you like and stick to those and start feeling so much better, than you don't want to go back to feeling terrible. I am not giving up and don't you. I will pray for you and please pray for us. Thank you! Avoiding refined sugar and wheat products has helped me immensely when I do. I also have to avoid chocolate because the caffeine bothers me and makes my skin more dried out and joint pain worsens and not being able to sleep. I also get very cranky so I need to avoid all caffeine and I start doing so much better. It can cause headaches. Anyway, I could probably go on and on, but I will stop here and thank you for posting your comment. A lightbulb went off in my mind too and asked the same question you posed to yourself, so most likely there is a connection.

I also avoid any added nitrates. They can give me headaches. They have turkey and regular bacon at Walmart that they sell without any added nitrates, and also Hormel deli meats that don't have them either. I avoid them in cereals, and there is a specific brand of beef and bacon jerky without nitrates also. I think it may be the Oberto brand.