Horrendous thrush

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I had to have antibiotics for a suspected water infection, but it's caused me to have AWFUL thrush. I've never, ever experienced it so bad before. I've been using the cream for 3 days but it just keeps getting worse and now I'd actually describe it as painful.

Anyone experienced similar? How did you get rid of it?

I'm prone to thrush but not had it for ages and previously I'd just use the fluconazole tablet but can't take that when pregnant.

I developed an allergy to fluconazole and the consultant prescribed a 500mg canesten pessary (clotrimazole) every day for a week and then one a week for 4? weeks afterwards. I got it again over a year later but the GP wouldn't prescribe the same, only one pessary a week.

You have my sympathies, I'm currently hoping I've self-medicated my current case correctly and the itch is just a random itch 😅

I feel your pain...I had this when pregnant with antibiotics for a water infection and I had a severe reaction to it.

Doctor prescribed canesten (normally fine but in pregnancy it made it a million times worse) it was the worst thing I've ever had - I would be in the bath at all hours to try and sooth the pain.

Fast forward after an A&E trip (it was that bad) I begged my doctor to give me anything he could - he eventually gave me fucibet or fucidin cream and it soothed it straight away and it eventually went 👍🏻

The other great thing I found great was vagisil medicated crème and this was so soothing! Hope this helps 😊

I had horrendous fungal infections whem pregnant. Doctor prescribed me stronger creans and a course of fluconazole.

Hi
used to suffer with thrush terribly to the point I would just sit in a hot bath for most of the day. I’ve tried everything and genuinely the only thing strong enough was the pessary the tablet didn’t work. As someone above says you can get a treatment of pessaries for a week. I have no idea if they’re safe in pregnancy but obviously your GP will know. You can also get a stronger external cream for the relief prescribed by the GP.

Thank you so much for your replies!

I made a Drs appointment this morning and they prescribed me 200mg pessaries for 6 days and said to use the 2% cream for another week as well. So hopefully that will do the job!

I've just never had thrush that has been painful before. Itchy, yes, but not painful!

It should do the trick…it’s horrible when it’s so severe you feel like scratching your bits off! 😂

Hi everyone... so the GP gave me pessaries. But now it's even worse 😭

It literally feels like I have blistered and sore skin all around the opening to the vagina where I've obviously been putting the pessaries. It's like a stabbing pain even if I move sometimes.

@Kaylo3183 is this what happened to you? I'm wondering if I'm allergic to it or something, but always used the pessaries fine in the past!

My GP is now saying they wonder if it's something else so just going in to get checked out now. They were very reluctant to have a look at it! But it's been 2 weeks now and noone has even taken a look so I practically insisted!

Also to add I now have had diarrhea today as well 😭which I'm hoping is just a normal pregnancy thing and not a sign of something more serious

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I’ve never experienced this with the pressures. However the stronger external cream can cause soreness as it can burn the skin if you use it too much so it could be that.

You have my sympathy, I've had abit of thrush in the past where it's been horribly itchy and just the cream has sorted it out but now at 35 weeks pregnant it's come at me with a vengeance 😩 so itchy, sore and persistent. I've had a gel pessery/cream and it went away, then it started to come back so I used some cream again and thought that was the end of it, nope. Back to itching and soreness (I don't have the unpleasant discharge you can get with it 🤷🏻) so now tried the internal cream and the external one. I tried for nearly two weeks to get a GP appointment with no luck and the pharmacy won't help because I'm pregnant, midwife just keeps telling me to see a GP but I've just been having to use the stuff you buy off the shelf as I can't stand to just leave it. Hope you get it sorted soon

Hi, yes it was very blistered and the worst pain I've ever had! The only other thing that worked for me was E45 itch relief cream which I never knew you could use down there but I did - the doctor prescribed it but you can buy it at the pharmacy. I think keeping it moist helped so I used to run a cool bath and put some of that on. For me it was definitely caused from the antibiotics and once I stopped using the clotrimazole and the pessaries and I used a mixture of E45 itch relief, vagisil cream this stopped the itching straight away as it numbs the area. Hope you get better soon

You can use the pessary.

Thank you! I've not heard of the vagisil medicate cream but will try that if it continues. Also the E45 itch releif. I actually have some epiderm which is like E45 and they said it was fine to use that to calm down the soreness.

I saw the GP who just said it looked like there were cuts on the skin which is causing the burning pain, where I've obviously scratched it so much! It's so hard not to! So at least I know its not the cream causing it. Will continue with the pessaries and hope the full course of treatment gets rid of it! I've also been wearing pants at night as I was worried I'd scratch it in my sleep but the GP said to stop doing that and let air get to it.

@SantasRubiksCube I feel your pain! Hope it gets sorted for you soon!