Hi, I don't have a particularly supportive GP. I've had breast feeding thrush since dd2 was born 4 and half months ago and have had enormous difficulty getting her to prescribe decent drugs to get rid of it. I am now getting blocked every three days and promptly engorging. When I went to her this morning to discuss more drugs she was extremely reluctant, she looked up the quantities suggested by the breast feeding network and explained that levels like that were only for invasive thrush and that she wasn't convinced that mine qualified as invasive. No she felt the best thing I could do was give up breast feeding. She asked me how long I intended to continue breast feeding. When I said I'd hoped for a year she responded with "Oh no dear, you can forget that no no no. Better think about giving up soon, the sooner the better". I was reeling a little from this comment, I've always had my suspicions however this is the first time she's been as open as this. Probably stupidly but I went on to say, well I have to clear this thrush at some point I want to have a third (baby). Her response was "Oh no dear, you don't want to do a silly thing like that, no no no, you want to stick to two. Remember all your fears of miscarriage, then there was your asthma, then the hypertension (high blood pressure) - oh no you can't put us all through that again".
The whole thing has really upset me and made me resolve to do something about it. But what? Changing doctors in my area is not easy, most of them have closed their books. A new surgery has opened but it currently only has one doctor and he's notoriously bad with children. The only thing I can currently think to do is to move house which is a little too dramatic simply because I don't like my gp. Any thoughts/help?