Recurrent thrush 35 weeks pregnant

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I'm absolutely at the end of my tether with thrush! I've spent a fortune on the pessaries/external creams and it's just not shifting.

I do suffer with it quite a lot when I'm not pregnant however it seems to be a million times worse and will not shift now I'm in later stages of pregnancy. My doctors have never really been very helpful in treatment prior to pregnancy, usually tell me to take a thrush tablet/cream and then it clears up.

I'm not diabetic so it's not an underlying cause, I use aqueous cream to wash my nether regions and I don't have baths, regularly air my bits and don't wear Lycra etc.

I'm at my wits end.

Forgot to ask my main questions - has anyone else had this? How do you make it go away? Has anyone used the Flucozonale tablet at later stages?

I had this throughout my entire pregnancy, unfortunately the only thing that really helped was cutting out sugar.

At 38 weeks my GP gave me some decent pessary to sort it out, I forget what, but she reasoned that by this point it would have no affect on the baby.

So you're really close to the end - as soon as DS was born it vanished.

You have my sympathy though, it was hands down the worst thing about being pregnant.

Also get some allergy tests done when you get the chance. My thrush was actually a latex allergy.

@Skinterior I think that's going to be my next plan, I do have a high sugar diet at the minute

How restrictive with sugar did you get?

I had this is my last pregnancy, and I'm sorry to say I continued to suffer with re occurrent thrush afterwards for around 2.5 years. I was getting it at least once a week.
It stopped out of the blue around 6 months ago (I didn't change anything)
I was on thrush pessaries every week from the doctors, which never kept it at bay, it kept on re occurring. My test came back as normal thrush, didn't have diabetes or anything, it was a mystery why I suffered with it for so long (almost 3 years).
I'm pregnant again (22 weeks) and haven't suffered with thrush at all.
I hope you manage to get it sorted.

Forgot to mention Doctors put me on a 6 month maintenance treatment in the end (used a thrush pessary every week) and it just stopped mid way through that.
The oral tablets never worked for me.

Sorry - busy evening. I cut out as much as I could. But I did have the odd Kit Kat because they're worth it 😉