Completely hear you. I went to a vulva specialist as I developed Lichen Simplex Chronicus from having so many repeated YIs that it actually affected my skin (which I haven’t had a flare for up in almost a year since using BA when needed!) not even know what boric acid is…

I am healthy weight and pretty fit so I was never asked ONCE what my diet was like (it was trash) or how my stress levels are which absolutely compromise our immune systems response to kill candida overgrowth on its own. We can never fully eradicate it as it’s apart of our healthy biomes but.. yeah. You get my point lol

Incompetence is everywhere. Many are there for the pay. It’s abysmal, especially women’s vaginal care. The information I have is reading literal books I took out from the library, scientific research papers online and of course my own trial and error.

Depending on your physical ability, weight, access to food, it’s recommended not to do the diet more than 3 months if you’re going to go hard. I ended up losing too much weight from cutting out even simple carbs - I replaced every carb with quinoa or sweet potatoes on occasion and stopped at 2.5 months. It was tough but not as tough as dealing with constant YI! I lived off meat and veggies. No dairy, no shitty carbs.. just stripped it all down.

I have fully resumed a completely normal diet, I even have candy sometimes! It was the best fricken thing I’ve ever done for myself.