To fucking cry about this

It doesn't sound normal at all.

Everyone is different but although you might get more discharge at certain times of the month, it shouldn't be constant.

BV is a fairly generic term and just means your vaginal flora has got out of balance, you need a specialised clinic to analyse what meds you need to sort it out. It causes so much worry but is sorted out so quickly and easily. With luck, your local hospital will have a good GUI clinic. Don't be shy about going, you will wish you had done it sooner.

I’m lactose intolerant, and get a lot of discharge if I have lactose; DD is the same.

Definitely go to your local sexual heath (actually called genitourinary medicine clinic so not just about STIs etc). They can do swabs and blood tests there, they’ll be more thorough than your GP usually. You can book online.

Do you mean you ate a piece of hard coconut shell every day?

I'm not sure that this is true.

I didn't have sex until quite late, so I read a lot about it and there was not a definite answer.

If it’s clear liquid and not blood maybe get some very light incontinence pads - I’ve found they are less irritating and you can get very light ones from Tena.

I've no idea about the discharge but agree with others that seeing your GP and pushing for a gynae referral is needed.
In addition to this, maybe a women's health physio appointment would be helpful, they can help with pelvic floor issues.
Could the clear discharge be pee? You could probably confirm this by using tampons for a few days, if it is pee, a Physio can usually help.

I had exactly this. After lots of heavy bleeding, I had a hysteroscopy and had a fibroid peeping through my cervix. That was removed there and then, problem solved.

Period pants over the moon cup, but that’s just my opinion. Get to your GP or the nurse. Good luck and well done for coming on and sharing, it will also help others. x

Can you afford a private gynae appointment?

Following out of curiosity as I've had this before & noticed it the other day randomly. thankfully not at work & was able to cover myself as I was carrying bags

Hope you get it sorted. It must be difficult to have it long term 🙁

You need to go back to the doctor, ask to see another one. Check if your GP surgery has a dedicated women's health GP. You shouldn't need to be inserting period products daily to deal with with this. It isn't normal and I'm so tired of women being fobbed off. The weight of this must be seriously impacting you. Please keep pushing - you're the only one that can advocate for you properly. Be 'that' person.

Could it be overactive bladder (look it up)?

Good luck OP!

With all the symptoms you describe, I'd go back to GP (see a different GP if you can, maybe a female GP? Our GP surgery has a female GP who runs women's clinics for gynaecological issues, maybe ask if yours does) and I'd push for a referral to a gynaecologist. You shouldn't be left to struggle with this, it sounds awful and I'm not surprised you're feeling down. Look after yourself lovely 💐

Have you tried period pants?

@Fedup19473 I just wanted to add to the chorus. This isn't something you should have to put up with and you shouldn't have to be sexually active for it to be taken seriously. Go back and explain how often you're having to change and that it isn't just a variation of normal. Tell them it's affecting every aspect of your daily life and that you can't get through a normal work day without changing.

The boots BV and thrush treatment is great at just resetting me when somethings abit wrong.

But yeah if it is your normal then period pants would be best, you can get them that just look like normal underwear so just use them as your go to normal.

OP hasn’t had a sexual relationship so can’t have cervical cancer.

You might have to explain exactly what OP is supposed to do with the the fresh (or dried) coconut shell 🤔

@Fedup19473 this sounds awful but there’s some great advice on this thread and hopefully you can find an answer.

my mum had a similar thing when I was a teen - she told me about it later - but she’d forgotten to take a tampon out and it was wedged way up inside her. She had terrible discharge apparently and had to be removed by doctor. Am guessing maybe you e had an internal and a smear already though as part of your elimination process? If not, it’s worth adding to your list of things to try.

You might have a ‘overgrowth’ of a naturally occurring bacteria in your vagina called Gardnerella. This can cause very liquid discharge in large quantities. I know as I had similar symptoms a long time ago. It is not an STI but just one of those things.
It was easily cleared up with a course of antibiotics.

My son had what to me clearly looked like a UTI- frequent urination, urine leaking/ urgency to pee, pain when he peed, and he went to the GP and his urine tests were all negative and they gave him broad spectrum antibiotics just in case too, nothing changed.

I had to push them to look again. They eventually found it WAS a UTI, something a bit more uncommon, they couldn't see it on the first tests. It needed to be treated with a specific antibiotic to clear it (and even then it took three increasingly strong doses of it as by that time it was really taking hold!).

I'm not sure your symptoms necessarily sound like a UTI but after our experience I do warn people that sometimes those first tests can be wrong. But UTI wee is in my experience very stinky/ potent. I don't think you could mistake it as wee.

Could it be a lost tampon? I experienced similar watery discharge as a teenager and an internal exam found that I'd inserted a new tampon without taking the old one out. Once removed, the problem disappeared. Wishing you well x

Are you 100% sure it's vaginal discharge and not urine leaking? You describe having urinary symptoms as well. It may be a bladder problem. Keep fighting for a diagnosis, and treatment, no-one should have to live life this way.

I have this- they picked it up at my last smear (I had no idea). I do also get the occasional 'gush' of discharge too - not so bad I worry about it going beyond my pants but enough for my underwear to be uncomfortably wet for a while afterwards.