I am a 26 year old male looking to start a 1 week detox diet.

Several months ago I had an STD scare (which I am still living through) and after several months of being tested for everything under the sun and being told I am 100% healthy by every single Dr I have decided to take another approach (symptoms itching in the testicles, scrotum, penis tip and anus)

I was treated as a precaution by a HUGE dose of antibiotics, strong enough to virtually wipe out anything that was not supposed to be in my system. I then took several months of antibiotics as Dr’s tried something else.

My conclusion is that I may have a candida (yeast infection) which is entirely possible after the high dosages of antibiotics.

I want to try a detox diet, something I have not tried before (as now I eat lots of junk food and somewhat depressed)

What is a good detox diet?
I was thinking only 1 thing for a week to keep it simple, but also be friendly to the candida infection

I suffer from CFS and a few weeks ago started treating a candida infection of the anus and surrounding tissue (and probably of the rectum and possibly of the intestine) several weeks ago with fluconazole. (I am self treating due to low income and no insurance. I recognized the yeast infection because I had suffered from it several years ago.)

The candida infection resolved, but a secondary cellulitis infection occurred in the same tissue before the tissue had time to heal. I treated that with a standard course of azithromycin (500 mg the first day followed by four days of 250 mg/day). There was significant improvement after only 24 hours, and the skin looked and felt good (not inflamed and not itching anymore) at the end of the treatment.

Unfortunately the cellulitis recurred only two or three days after finishing the course of azithromycin.

Having read the there is a 40% recurrence rate with antibiotic treatment of cellulitis, I had ordered three more z-paks (from India… per pak). So I have 18 more 250 mg tablets.

Obviously I need to treat the infection more aggressively. I found a study that showed a success rate for azithromycin on cellulitis of ~70% for the standard dosing, but only ~50% at a lower dose. So I figure a higher dose will be useful. But I also think the course should be longer.

I intend to stay on fluconazole till the cellulitis is cured. I’m taking Culturelle probiotic daily to keep my gut populated with "good" bacteria.

Are there any MDs, med students, pharmacists, or any other really smart people out there who can help me decide how best to take these 18 tablets? (And I can order more if I need to. They will arrive in about 12 days.)

BTW, I’m a 54 year old male. No other major health issues besides CFS.
P.S. I’m 6′ 2" and weigh 250 lb.
ckm1956:

> That’s the danger of self-treatment.

What’s the danger of self treatment? Re-infection? As I said, about 40% of those treated for cellulitis become re-infected. Re-infection would not be any less likely had a doctor prescribed the antibiotic.

The standard 5-day regimen of azithromycin is commonly prescribed by doctors for those with cellulitis who are allergic to penicillin. So it is an appropriate antibiotic. The only question is whether or not I will need parenteral treatment or not.

Thanks for the advice on local community clinics. I don’t know about where you live, but here it’s not that easy. And you save only on the visit, not the medications, which is where the big bucks go. Also, those doctors typically know nothing about CFS or its complications. I know a lot more than most doctors.

If I go see a doctor, it will be only to get an answer to the question I am asking here. Or to get a parenteral antibiotic if the longer-course azithromycin doesn’t work.

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I cant even begin to say how having discomfort in this area can completely drain the joy of life out of you. Imagine 24 hours a day having a discomfort in the anus, testicles and urethral opening.

It started after a sexual encounter with a high risk partner while on vacation.

A bit of blood in the urine prompted me to go to the emergency room and be treated with a huge dosage of rosephin and zithromax.

I dont know if it was the antibiotics or the sexual encounter but I broke out in a horrible fire crotch for weeks.

Some doctors say it was thrush or a candida infection, my medical reports say negative to the following:

Herpes, ghoneria (SP) , chlamydia, syphilis, HIV, HEP ABC, no bacteria in the prostate, blood work normal. I even tried a HPV urine analysis hit from MDlabs that screens for HPV.

I also took months upon months of antibiotics as doctors were just feeding them to me with no reason.

I have spent hundreds and billed thousands to my heath care provider.

At the STD level its horrible or men, there is not a "one test fits all" its more like they look at the penis and if all looks good they send you on your way.

Overall symptoms
pain in urethral opening (6 months now gone)
extreme itching in testicles and anus (3 months now gone, but overall horrible feeling in the areas 24/hours a day)
abdominal pain, comes and goes –> mostly sensation in the liver (or right side of the stomach)
Color issues of the head of the penis (sometimes looks really red etc)

I am now seeing a naturalpathic doctor who belives it may be candida, taking 6 pills of nystatin a day along with probiodics and Allimax allicin (like a garlic tablet)

I want to say it may be helping but not really… I wish I had someone to relate to and could shed some lite on my situation. I dont want to meet the perfect girl and have to tell her I have something but we dont know what it is…

Had sex one time with a sex worker 9 months ago and my life has never been the same.

I have been tested multiple times and spent thousands of dollars and no answers.

The last thing not tested for is male HPV, and unfortunately we dont have a way to diagnose with our current medical tools.

I was just wondering if any men have been diagnosed out there with wartless hpv.

Symptoms
Itching in the anus, tip of penis and testicles.
Slight darkening at the tip and on shaft.
Also considering a candida infection (been on lots of antibiotics)

I fear the only way i will ever find out would be after i give it to a future girlfriend or wife, which haunts me every day. I would never want to have anyone go through this.

Before you list off the obvious herpes, hiv, chlamydia (sp) ghonneria (sp) syphilis Hep ABC, been there done that.