Candida & PT

So I am wondering if anyone can help me understand if there may or may not be a connection between my candida and my WICKED tight hamstrings... I went to PT about a year ago and the therpist just couldn't get over how tight they were and that we coudln't get them to loosen up much. I have DDD in my back so the MRI showed and I know there is a connection between the back and the hamstrings, but now I am wondering if there is a candida factor in there because with die-off I am getting more pain in my arms, which I recall and it is an ache, not a tightness whereas my legs feel like rubber, fine, but my hamstrings! I keep trying to stretch them and they are just so tight! Could this be a die-off connection or do I just need to keep boosting my calcium which I am trying now. Weirdness is, my muscles in MY FEET are tight and achy like no body's business! I have been working very hard to be as active as possible despite how you feel with die off and all, so I don't seem to think it is inactivity. Can there be a connection between the big C and my hamstringers?? THANKS MUCH!!


Relapser-

this may sound too obvious, but body in bad shape, toxic overload... leads to both conditions. underlying ailments can lead to a great deal of tension in the body.


thanks for the response! it wasn't too obvious for me. I would guess toxic overload and a body struggling to be stronger without triggering another back episode... i think at my third round, i should know more. at the same time, i am finally so tired of what we all go through (i know we don't all go thru the same thing, but similar maybe) that i was just researching online about Jason Giambi's health issues in 2004 because, dude, we need a spokesperson for this stuff... he made reference to being thirty-whatever-he-is and not fifty and that he shouldn't feel so lousy. Hell, I am thirty and sometimes I likening my feelings to 85!! I appreciate your response. Any and all are helpful... Be well!


Like John said, toxins and candida can do a lot of this. I had a frozen shoulder that has completely cleared up after treating candida. I also noticed that when I was full of toxiins, it made yoga difficult as my legs were too stiff to reach the floor when I was trying to sit in a cross-legged postion. Since I have detoxed a lot of it out, I can now reach the floor again when sititng cross-legged. Both of these things (legs and shoulder) will still stiffen up a bit when I am pushing out a lot of toxins.


Thanks for your note. It now makes me think of my mother whose fingers freeze periodically... It just gets painful, you know? I appreciate the thoughts because I didn't have this happen last time in my legs, but rather other places and I just started wondering if even a year ago while I was doing the PT if part of my pains and probs were actually the devil itself -- CANDIDA! I aspire to be sans sucre. I don't want to live like this anymore... I'm sure you know the feeling!


Hi re-lapser,

It's funny you would mention this particular symptom. My hamstrings would sooner tear than stretch out. My PT also can't believe how tight the muscles are. It's work, work, work and very little to show for it. One time a nutritionist, Doug Kaufman, said that muscle pain assoc with Fibromyalgia is because of candida in the muscles. I'm not sure if he meant toxins from candida or candida itself. I do know on the rare occasions when I thought the Candida was cured that much of the muscle pain went away and the muscles became more elastic.

I'm hoping a liver cleanse will help my muscle problems get better.

That's interesting about the frozen shoulder clearing up as the body got detoxed. We can only hope.


Thank God for you and john and sans sucre! I thought I was really pushing the limits of the candida. Maybe it is all possible. I don't recall this problem with my legs so much last time, but I do know that I had a lot of neck pain (which I have now along with shoulders, hands, feet, arms -- you know the drill, sounds like!) which did ease up to the point where I was self-conscious because my head felt so loose that I thought I wasn't even keeping it steady when I walked! Next pain didn't stay away though for long... not sure why not! To our hamstrings, may they someday stretch with ease!


I have experienced cramped calves since I started taking the Cytomel about two years ago but at the same time started doing PT exercises twisting my legs with weights on the ankles so don't know what caused the cramps. Yesterday I got some Nature's Way Liquid Calcium and the calf muscles relaxed and I had a good day today; however, it has orange in it which gave me acid reflux. Thus, today I had to go to another part of the city for shoes and went to a different health food store and bought Liquid Health Calcium and took 1/12 a serving tonight and haven't had a reaction yet but took 3 HCI before taking it. I have been so down about my legs and PT in general but this week the neuromuscular lady released some new muscsles in my right leg so maybe it gave my left leg more room. Thus, there may still be hope. Good luck on finding a suitable calcium. I also take Metagenics which gets in the bones quickly but have not noticed that it helped the legs.


I probably have sat in the recliner less than an hour since I got it. The week after I got it the neuromuscular lady showed me a periformance stretch that relieved the calf cramp. I like it but don't have enough sense to sit down which is a big problem. I still have a very tight right calf due to the PT exercises I have to do to strengthen the right glut and then getting out of the car is a problem too. Yesterday the PT showed me an easier periformance stretch so hope it works. I think the Cytomel also causes leg cramps and have a hard time getting enough magnesium, etc. How are you doing? I'm still thinking about getting the dog too. My allergies are somewhat better since I have started taking the Nutri Feron by Shaklee. I am keeping my fingers crossed!!!


Doing alright... So up and down with not much of an up, but I am sticking to my protocol and will see what it brings in the next month and a half when I hit my three months. If I don't feel like things are improving, I will be back at the doc and all over the Web as usual looking for something new to boost things. For now, I just think I need to have a bit of patience... I am glad that you keep pushing forward and trying new things and exercises. Your persistence, energy for healing and determination are an inspiration to me even if I only know a bit of the story! Get the dog although that will need more time than the recliner! It is a good idea! Keep thinking about it and keep fighting!


So..I noticed that when ever I use my bathroom mirror.floss, tweeze, make up etc..I have to lean in. I lean my legs on the edge of the sink exactly where that atrophy is. I figured this out when I started getting one on my other leg in the same place...what a dork!!! and now I catch myself doing it all the time. Hopefully if I can knock it off, it will fix itself and it isn't a bad sign of ill health after all! I have lived here for 4 1/2 months..so that means 2 times a day for that amount of time I have done this...


hehe - lets hope so!!
I had a blue mark on my stomach for months and couldn't figure out what it was, until one morning I realised I crashed in the kitchen table corner exactly there! Every morning!


I have this note taped the the mirror not to lean, and I still do!? I'm about to duct tape a pillow there,lol!