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I’m am at my wits end please please help me

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TheMoonIsWensleydale · 20/07/2025 02:18

I have had thrush down below for over a year on and off now. It started when I started immunotherapy for cancer and I have had maybe a month or 2s relief in that time. Every time we have sex I get thrush, but also I get it randomly.

im not kidding when I say I can be walking down the street, or sat on the sofa and all of a sudden I get that itch and know I need to go to the pharmacy and buy yet more fucking canesten.

I went to my GP who agreed it was bad and gave me a tablet to take every 72 hours for 3 goes, then a tablet every single week for 6 months. I am 4 weeks into this and it’s suddenly got so much worse I needed to buy otc canesten and the cream is burning like a mother fucker.

im not diabetic and I am pretty good at eating healthy. I know it’s likely the immunotherapy but oh my gosh I am so so sick of it.

please help me

AIBU to ask you what sorted your chronic thrush?

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Ttcpph · 20/07/2025 02:54

Is it definitely thrush? Could it be BV, or even just vaginal dryness which is uncomfortable/itchy?

I would try and work on your gut flora - if your gut flora is well balanced you are less likely to struggle with thrush. Kefir, probiotic supplements, symprove, kombucha, natural yogurt...

EstrellaPequena · 20/07/2025 02:26

Has your partner been treated too?

pecanpiee · 20/07/2025 02:25

Oh gosh, I’m so so sorry, I know the pain.
I had thrush on and off for six months and it was a nightmare, the culprit ended up being my copper IUD which I had removed of course. You don’t happen to have one of those, do you?