Chronic nasal congestion many many years ago lead me to try to control it with OTC meds.which i had become immune to.....and the ENT dr just said I'd haven to get used to sinus drainage as there was nothing abnormal. I knew it wasn't normal and it was correlating to extreme fatigue which was getting worse...which made the Drs mad that I was attempting to "diagnose" myself by trying to bring the correlation to their attention.
Researching alternative medicine books led me to self diagnose as Candida overgrowth and CFS. When I started following the Candida diet and CFS diets..virtually the same, I began to get better over the next year. When I stopped going to MDs, I got better and better. The sinus congestion for me was clearly due to leaky gut syndrome.
I've never been that sick again...not in that way. Now when I can tell my ph or Candida is off...by symptoms of sinus congestion, intestinal discomfort, fatigue, and this last year I had an episode where the Candida caused me to break out in rashes...a symptom I fatigued on google but new to me....anyway..when I know I am at the stage..usually from eating too many carbs and sugars, caffeine etc, I have homeopathic suppositories from Germany I get online, as well as a new discovery.. Systolic AMD...along with my usual probiotics, and getting back on my Candida diet.