Help find underlying cause of symptoms

[Jmh4313]

I am 30 year old male I guess I'll start at the beginning from what I remember. When I was 8 I was diagnosed with Osgood slaughter disease which started bad arthritis in my knees and made it difficult to play and play sports but I still did so. Throughout my childhood I always felt tired and sluggish with no energy or drive and had mild hypertension. I have always been slightly above average in size and weight but muscular. I also suffered stomach issues throughout my childhood lots of diarrhea and constipation never regular. In 2008 I had a rupture in my large intestine and was told by multiple doctors it was just gas until I went to erase and had a CT scan. Nearly a week had passed by then so I had extreme amounts of infection when they cut me open and had to remove a lot of small and large intestine that were bad and clean infection off of multiple organs. They diagnosed me with diverticulitis. I had so many antibiotics during this time. In 2012 i started having multiple high blood attacks where I would be taken to the error and have BP around 220 over 150. They started me on hydrochlorothiazide that didn't work so they added Benazepril and amlodipine that helped a little bit but then it worked it's way back up. Then we added Prozac  and buspirone and (Xanax only as needed) we found that a lot of my blood pressure attacks were from anxiety. In 2014 I had severe pain in my feet and found out I had large heel spurs on both feet. In 2015 in march i had an ear ache to where my side of my head swelled and i had colliflower ear and i always had problems with antibiotics working so they started me off with augmentin that didn't work so they put me on ciprofloxacin which my doctor had to do often it was the only thing that worked for my infections , so that was 3 weeks of antibiotics. I also end up with bad yeast infections everytime i take any antibiotics. In  July I had another issue with my intestine and was diagnosed with crohns and was hospitalized for a few days with a bad crohns attack so they filled me up with antibiotics and my gastrointestinal doctor started me on prednisone which I took for a few months till around September. Had the worst withdrawal symptoms to where I had to crawl up steps took a while to ween off. A few weeks after I was off prednisone I started having bad lower back pains. My doctor gave me flexerill and that didn't work and the pain only got worse over the next few months. In January 2016 I was to where I could not work sleep or just sit without being in extreme pain. I had an mri done and I had 10 bulged disc and 5 of them herniated In my mid and lower back and multiple bone spurs and vertebrae worn down in size. I had my first 3 steroid epidural shots in February and that worked for a few weeks then never pain spread to more areas and pain has worsened I also have bone spurs in many other joints hips shoulders and fingers. The past few months it has just felt like something is eating my body inside of me I'm in extreme pain all over and it gets worse at night and take forever to get going in the morning or whenever I take a break. Pain meds don't work I cannot take nsaids or my stomach bleeds and we tried nerve pain pills but I'm allergic. I just feel like there is something causing all this that my doctors can't figure out my health is falling at a rapid pace I'm still working hard but the past few days it feels like my hips are falling out of place. I have been reading up on candida and wonder how to bring that up to my doctor. Can anyone give me suggestions I'm to young and on to many pills and refuse to be disabled but it looks like that's not gonna be my choice if something doesn't change soon, thanks.

[Jmh4313]

Thanks for the info I am also looking into Lyme disease. Last hunting season I was completely covered in chigger and tic bites which has me wanting get checked.

[Jjewelz1987]

Hi there.
so sorry you are dealing with all of this! I am very glad that you are looking into Candida as a possibility. Candida is something that is very common and it is overlooked by most doctors, in fact most mainstream doctors don't even believe in Candida. If you have Candida, all these antibiotics that they are pumping you up with is just making it worse. Also, prednisone is very hard on your body and it can make any infection (fungal or bacterial) much worse as well because it surpasses your immune system response. If you want to look into Candida, you can do research on your own, I wouldn't bring it up to your doctor, unless you go see an Alternative Medicine doctor. Alternative Medicine doctors are really the only ones who understand Candida. In the meantime you can start your own Candida treatment. You should avoid sugar and carbohydrates, and focus on eating mainly protein and vegetables. Carbohydrates and sugar directly feed the candida. Also, you can start taking natural antifungals, such as olive leaf extract, oil of oregano, and caprylic acid. Start slow though because you can get what's called a die-off reaction when you kill the Candida too fast!

Also, I would like to point you in the direction of another infection that is very similar to Candida in symptoms and is also overlooked by the medical community, and that is Lyme Disease. Your symptoms all sound like they could be caused by Lyme Disease, Most doctors don't think to test for it, and the testing in general for it is very inaccurate- it only picks up on 50% of the cases of Lyme Disease. There is a great Lyme  Disease section right here on MedHelp. I think you should go in there and post your symptoms. They are very knowledgeable in that forum and I think looking into Lyme Disease as a serious possibility would be in your best interest! People get bitten by ticks everyday and don't even know they were bitten, it happens all the time. So there are many people who are infected with Lyme Disease and they don't even know it.

Good luck with everything!