Diflucan

I’ve been treating fungal infections for over twenty years, and I’ve learned one hard truth: the yeast always fights back. I remember my first real battle with a systemic Candida infection back in 2003—a 34-year-old woman, postoperative, on broad-spectrum antibiotics. She had that telltale white coating on her tongue, but more concerning were the fever spikes and the positive blood cultures. We threw fluconazole at it, 400 mg IV daily. I was nervous; the ID pharmacist told me we were “riding the edge of the dosing curve.