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Why can't my GP sort my smelly vag?

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BeyondMortifying · 09/01/2021 20:33

I'm posting here for traffic under a different name....

I posted about this issue before over a year ago but can't find the thread or username (habitual namechanger)

Basically what the title says... there is a noticeable odour down there so bad that I have to wear a pantyliner and change my knickers mid day. I cant weat the same jeans more than one day as they STINK. Its fucking mortifying. Its deffinatley noticeable to other people aswell, DP was asking about a weird smell in the bedroom.. my knickers which I hadn't yet taken down to the washing machine. Blush

I went to my GP over a year ago, after treating my self for thrush, cutting out scented bath products/ sanitary products and seeing no improvement.
Was treated for BV... over the year I've had 3 different courses of oral antibiotics aimed at treating it and a cream. The antibiotics give me thrush as they are so strong, so then I have to treat that but the smell persists. GP can't keep prescribing them, understandably, and clearly they aren't working. I've had a course of "general antibiotics" just to see if it made a difference. I've had the coil out and a new one fitted. Nothing it working and its just awful.

I cut out onion, garlic and spices from my diet for nearly 2 and a half months but it made no difference. I eat pineapple every day, no difference. I've bought those pessery sort of things from superdrug and tried those. Nothing is bloody working and I'm at a point where I cant go out the house for more than a couple of hours before I need to get home for a wash before I have a waft of rotten vag about me.

Just as a background, one day I smelled totally normal, then over the course of a week I noticed a rank smell which has just never gone. Posters on my previous thread suggested lost tampon but over a year on and one never appeared, I've not died from TSS so presumably that wasnt the course.

GP is getting sick of me, I can tell. What am I missing that could be causing this?? BlushSad

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NoviceNewMN · 03/08/2021 10:23

As others have said, I don't want to overly panic you but better this is looked into sooner rather than later. you do need to get a smear test asap and I'm very surprised your GP hasn't suggested it.

A change in vaginal odour is a known symptom of cervical cancer and vaginal cancers.

If I remember correctly, it was a symptom that Jade Goody reported early on. I think that is the only reason I am aware that this is a symptom but it did receive a lot of publicity at the time in the reporting of how her cancer was missed by GPs.

my.clevelandclinic.org/health/symptoms/17905-vaginal-odor

www.drmortons.co.uk/blog/cervical-cancer-symptoms/

NoviceNewMN · 03/08/2021 10:25

*Sorry I hadn't realised this thread was old and had been revived. My apologies.

peridito · 09/08/2021 16:55

:@BeyondMortifying if you're still around and others ,have you seen this thread ?
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/general_health/1368438-Can-I-share-my-UTI-miracle-cure

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