Hi Postmeno3 and Julia Dizzy, maybe it's for the best. I have been prescribed Fluconazole for an alleged oral Candida infection and I thought I was going to die. Black (tarry) stools and fever. I suppose it has upset my gut microbiome and some nasty bacteria has thrived inside my guts. Would you be keen on trying local and oral probiotic treatment? That's what I'm doing and feeling much better. Candida is a tough bug, mostly because it's an eukaryotic organism just like us, meaning, each cell has a nucleus where the DNA is located. Oral anti-fungal medication have terrible side effects, unlike antibiotics which are more specific for bacteria (prokaryotic organism, no nucleus, DNA is in the cytoplasm). I still have the alleged oral infection, but what I am trying to do now is to boost my immune system so my body can fight it, after all everyone hosts Candida, it only thrives when there's either a microbiome imbalance or a poor immune response, or both.