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To wish women’s health was taken more seriously?

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Atmywitsend23 · 30/06/2023 15:06

Just that really!! I’ve been struggling for about a year with repeated vaginal infections (aerobic vaginitis) and UTIs which seem to be going in a vicious cycle! The antibiotics for the UTI set off gynae issues and I’m so sick of it! Doctors are becoming increasingly dismissive and I swear it’s ruining my life. I’m in pain every day and spending a fortune on over the counter remedies. Any advice on how to balance the vaginal microbiome would be gratefully received alongside anyone else who’s just fed up of women’s health issues being dismissed!!

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Lesssugarketchup · 30/06/2023 15:09

I’ve always felt taken very seriously and respected by the medical establishment 🤷‍♀️

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Atmywitsend23 · 30/06/2023 15:14

I’m glad that’s been your experience. I’ve only found this to be the case when I visit about things men also experience. When I have visited medical professionals about women’s health issues I’ve always left feeling dismissed and invalidated

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clopper · 30/06/2023 15:23

Yes I feel the same. On/ off uti for about a year and a half, and bladder issues going back over 30 years since the birth of DD. Just grudgingly now given different antibiotics every time to try out. No one wants to even speak to me about it. Meanwhile D H manages to get regular appointments in their evening for a skin issue.

clopper · 30/06/2023 15:24

The doc even rings him back on occasion to see how he’s getting on with the medication.

Lesssugarketchup · 30/06/2023 15:32

Atmywitsend23 · 30/06/2023 15:14

I’m glad that’s been your experience. I’ve only found this to be the case when I visit about things men also experience. When I have visited medical professionals about women’s health issues I’ve always left feeling dismissed and invalidated

What gender GP?

not that it’s impacted my experience in the slightest

Lesssugarketchup · 30/06/2023 15:33

clopper · 30/06/2023 15:23

Yes I feel the same. On/ off uti for about a year and a half, and bladder issues going back over 30 years since the birth of DD. Just grudgingly now given different antibiotics every time to try out. No one wants to even speak to me about it. Meanwhile D H manages to get regular appointments in their evening for a skin issue.

Well that will be the surgery receptionists booking him in?

Flp89 · 14/08/2023 18:27

Hey,
I've been in a very similar position to you and felt totally let down by the NHS and even the private medical industry that I resorted to paying a nutritional therapist. She got me to do a vaginal microbiome test which has showed I have an imbalance and hardly any good bacteria. She has been advising me on probiotics and supplements to take which so far have helped but I still have a way to go. I can give you her number if you want to have a call with her? If not I can let you know of some of the supplements I take but I'm obviously not qualified so it would just be from what she's taught me.

TheVividOchreSwan · 09/10/2024 16:22

How are you getting on now?

DanaBarrett · 09/10/2024 16:28

Honestly, the only time I’ve felt that I’ve been taken seriously was at the Family Planning Clinic. Is there one you can book into?

xboxforlife · 09/10/2024 16:50

go on daye website they do everything for fannies!

Iamthemoom · 09/10/2024 16:51

Garden of Life do a probiotic called Vaginal. Should be available on Amazon and is really good for sorting out vaginal biome. Sorry drs are so rubbish with women's health. You might need a more holistic approach to get this sorted.

PaperGloves · 09/10/2024 16:57

I felt like that under the NHS. Ongoing issues with disablingly heavy bleeding (it wasn’t unusual for me to soak through two changes of clothes at work). A series of GP just prescribed tranaxaemic acid. I moved to Ireland and, despite it being during Covid, it was taken much seriously, my GP referred me to a gynaecologist, and I had a transvaginal scan and three minor surgeries including an endometrial ablation, which completely solved it.

TheVividOchreSwan · 09/10/2024 17:49

I have aerobic vaginitis I'm 100% sure, tmi... but I tried anal sex then my partner put it back in tbe front 🤦‍♀️ then I started getting yellow discharge went to doctors they kept saying to go to the family planning clinic they said I had bv gave me metro tables, everything got worse my vagina was on fire I felt like I had a uti but didn't, iv started inserting lifespace microflora into the vagina hoping to bring my ph down, all my symptoms are aerobic vaginitis also lots of inflammation which you don't get from bv

TheVividOchreSwan · 09/10/2024 17:50

What did they say you had when you went to the clinic?

blackrabbitwhiterabbit · 09/10/2024 17:56

There are always threads on twitter about this. It seems the medical profession doesn't seem to be bothered by things such as menopause or how debilitating pregnancy illnesses like hyperemesis is. The doctors didn't care when I had the latter. I had to beg to go on a drip and medication that worked.

Tutorpuzzle · 09/10/2024 18:20

This doesn’t help your specific problem OP, but I do think this video should be played daily to all doctors…and medical researchers and, well, men!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Qz2qWXy3xJo

Before you continue to YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Qz2qWXy3xJo

JohnTheRevelator · 09/10/2024 18:44

clopper · 30/06/2023 15:24

The doc even rings him back on occasion to see how he’s getting on with the medication.

This has been my experience too. A man gets a call asking him how he is doing on the medication. A woman? Who cares?

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