Face/sinus swelling question

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One of the MANY reasons I quit drinking beer (for the most part) 6

years ago was that some mornings I would wake up with a swollen

face/eyes. On TWO occasions, I woke up in the morning with a strange

feeling in my face. I could tell something was wrong. When I looked

in the mirror, I was startled to see that my eyes had swollen almost

shut and my whole face was swollen. I'm talking disfigured like the

elephant man or something!! I would relate it to someone who has a

reaction to bee stings or spider bites and their face swells.

Because I was a single guy, I didn't worry too much about it and just

took some Benadryl and it would go away in a few hours.

At the time, I would sometimes sleep on an old waterbed that had been

stored and you could smell mildew from the surface of the mattress.

Back then, I had bad nightsweats almost all the time, so I would

imagine the sweat seeping down to the mildew on the waterbed

mattress... mixed with the warm temperature of the bed... enouraged

mildew growth, which I was always " allergic " too. Didn't take me

long to figure that out, so I donated it to charity and began

sleeping in my other bedroom.

Do you think the sinus swelling was a purely raging candida growth

going on, as just a progression of the illness?? I quit drinking 2

months later and went on a big health kick. It was at that point

(cutting out the booze) that my candida showed itself with achy

joints and other symptoms that had never showed themselves while I

was " feeding the yeast " .

I'm just asking because the new, dark, beautiful bags/circles under

my eyes look a little strange this morning, and that reminded me of

the swollen face episodes many years ago, and I'm interested if

others here had the same thing happen.

Doug