Hi all,
I could do with some advice on a few things. I've been using Vagifem on and off for years, and have never had this issue before. When I use it in the last few months, I can get a wicked dose of thrush within a day or two and this has now happened 4 times. Like super painful, and it spreads so quickly. What's made it even worse is being put on antibiotics recently for a UTI, and altho I didn't have an episode of thrush when I was taking the antibiotics, it's once again kicking off after just one dose of Vagifem 2 nights ago. Plus I don't think the UTI has gone either.
I know that my gut is in a mess microbiome-wise - with the thrush episodes, my eczema flares up at the same time. To me it's all rooted in the gut, and gut testing has showed quite a high number of the likes of candida etc. I've gone through periods of being a complete sugar-fiend, which I'm sure has only made this worse. I've just started taking probiotics & Sac. Boulardii, but in the meantime while this gets to work internally, I'd really like to try and get both the thrush and UTI taken care of as they're both fierce unpleasant. I'm sending off both swab and urine samples for PCR testing which will at least tell me exactly what's going on.
Can i ask has anyone any advice for tackling repeat thrush episodes in the short-term? I'm desperate to be able to go back to using vagifem 4/5x a week (any less and I get atrophy symptoms), but I daren't even use any at the moment. A once off dose of diflucan seems to help, but I don't think one dose does the job. Is there an oral medication / cream that's available to take more than once?
Arrrrrgh this is so uncomfortable...!!
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