Pregnant, have thrush and in agony

[lainey1234]

Hi,

I'm 24 week pregnant hand have had thrush for 5 weeks now. Have been prescribed cream that helped a little and finally a pessary yesterday (after much hounding of my GP who is terrified to prescribe anything in pregnancy). The problem is i'm in so much pain down there that inserting the pessary was agony as the whole area is very swollen and painful. I'm concerned that it may not be thrush as i've never had it like this before and have never been sore internally. But the Dr wont do a proper examination because i'm pregnant! So frustrating! Don't want to keep trying different thrush treatments when the caouse of the pain and swelling could be something else like an infection that could possibly harm the baby. Any advice? Feel like im going round in circles.

I had the same very severe thrush when I was pregnant with my son. It got so bad that I couldn't insert a pessary either. I called my local labour ward and they asked me to go in when where a consultant examined me. When they examined me(with gas and air) they were alarmed that the discharge had turned green and didn't think it was thrush. I too was very worried that it could be a nasty infection but the resuts just came back positive to candida only. Apparently when it gets this severe it can turn pustula.

It maybe worth calling your labour ward and saying how concerned you are. But I can reasaure that thrush can be this severe. Your immune system is lower when pregnant and some women become more likely to get thrush. Mine didn't itch as it does usually but I think it was because the symptoms were just internally. For me drastically cutting down on sweet food helped to ease the symptoms. I had been nibbling on sweet stuff all the way through my pregnancy to ease the morning sickness.

Poor you.

It can be this bad and last for ages when pregnant but it's also possible you have an infection too. 2nd time I was pregnant I had a bad dose of BV and thrush I ended up seeing a private gynae as my GP was also rubbish. He said my natural yeasts/bacteria had "gone a bit mental" and prescribed econazole (for thrush) and dalacin (?sp for the bacteria)

You absolutely can take loads of thrush treatment whilst pregnant. Recently my (new) GP gave my 8 doses of canesten to take one a week during my 2nd trimester as the thrush kept coming back.

Please go back to you GP or phone your labour ward and see a midwife and get them to examine you and give you loads of pesseries.

If you can't get there before the weekend try sitting in a cool bath with salt water and a couple of drops of tea tree oil - every few hours. Get you DH to buy over the counter canesten (so you don't have a barage of questions from the pharmacist who probably won't sell it to an obviously pregnant lady)

Natural yoghurt is soothing but never cleared things up for me...

Good luck x

Thanks for the advice. Its a nightmare, especially as this is my first pregancy and I feel really patronised by every dr pharmasist i speak to!

Will definately be calling the ward for advice x x

Same thing happened to me during pregnancy, and at a very similar gestation as you. The thrush wasnt itchy it was soo painful, even inserting a pessary burnt me alive pretty much. Gp prescribed gyno-daktarin and it was heaven . It's really soothing cream you insert and the relief is really quick and above all perfectly safe in pregnancy