To ask is this normal or not? Pic (Possibly tmi)

[Tootsey11]

Just that really, is this usual for anyone else?

2 months this has been happening, sometimes shorter ones sometimes longer.

[Tootsey11]

@Emma925

These whatever they were stopped after 6 months or so. Never to return. I did find out that i was through menopause, have VA and lichen sclerosus, (and still long covid) Oh the joys of being a woman!

Thankyou for the kind words.

[Emma295]

Hi all,

This is a really old thread but i actually feel sick at some of you and how you can speak to someone like this. Someone who was really worried and upset and ill! Clearly suffering from long covid and having a nightmare of a time and wanted help.
Its a brave thing to do posting something like this on here, with a picture! The amount of other forums I've seen where no one has battered an eye lid at the sight of some discharge, you should really be ashamed of yourselves.
Karma is a bitch and maybe you'll get something like this and think twice.

Anyway none of this helped my issues but thank you to everyone who posted lovely things trying to help, I really hope it got sorted and I'm really interested to know if it ever did?

I've had various issues down south since lockdown started and it all started with me having covid symptoms back in April 2020. Doctors are now saying things like this can be caused from Covid.

Really hope you feel better now x

[Kel9]

Sorry I know this is serious but reading the comments I have lol in my office at work!! 😂🙈 did you find out what it was.. toilet paper getting stuck up your nan maybe??

[Hiddennameforever]

@Tootsey11
Sorry I just noticed your mesage now.
Yes I got it inside my lungs.
I’m allergic to many things and this allergies cause forming eosinophils plugs ( white cells) inside my lungs.
It’s very rare lung disease, but if I can have inside my lungs it’s probably possible to have anywhere else ( I read it can be inside stomach or brain too)

[AmandaHugenkiss]

GUM clinic al the way. I’ve done placements in them, and they see all sorts of non-sti infections and really are the experts. Plus they can refer you themselves if they identify something needing specialised follow up.

Also, your GP is an idiot saying you don’t need a gum clinic. Both for the reasons I stated above, and the fact that I’ve seen people in their 60s married for 40 years find out they’ve caught syphilis from their partner. Sadly it does happen.

[Didkdt]

Oh Tootsey get down to the GUM clinic

[Tootsey11]

Well, I'm now burnt red raw thanks to the baking soda. It looks horrendous. I'm ready to give up.

[BadTattoosAndSmellLikeBooze]

He asked had i been with anyone new, no same partner for 20 years. "Well then you don't need to go"

Well he’s really not very clever is he. A partner of 20 years could have cheated and then passed something onto you. (I’m not at all saying your partner has cheated, just that this doctors point is completed flawed. There will be many women who have got an STI from a partner that’s cheated.

Also, as others have said, sexual health clinics offer much more that advice/treatment for an STI.

Change GP. Hope you get it sorted.

[gamerchick]

@Tootsey11

I suggested to the Gp that I go to the sexual health clinic.

His reply " what you wanna go there for" , I said they could maybe give me an answer quicker, than all this guessing.

He asked had i been with anyone new, no same partner for 20 years. "Well then you don't need to go"

You need a different GP I think.

Sexual health is just that. They know their stuff like for real and it's all in one place and a lot quicker than going through a GP. It's not all about STDs.

[roundtwotooto]

OP I hope you get to the bottom of it. It’s clear how uncomfortable and worried you are.

The people making daft comments should be ashamed of themselves.

[hamstersarse]

www.everydayhealth.com/diet-nutrition/candida-diet-beginners-guide-detailed-food-list-meal-plan/

[Lovemusic33]

@Tootsey11

I suggested to the Gp that I go to the sexual health clinic.

His reply " what you wanna go there for" , I said they could maybe give me an answer quicker, than all this guessing.

He asked had i been with anyone new, no same partner for 20 years. "Well then you don't need to go"

Sexual health clinic isn’t just for STI’s, there are many infections not caused by STI’s and having the coil can always cause an infection that can lead to PID if left untreated. They can also advise on wether the coil needs to be removed.

[hamstersarse]

It started after antibiotics...which destroy your good gut bacteria and often leads to candida. Not just externally but internally.

I’m with the pp who suggested you need to quit sugar and yeast for at least a month. Candida feeds off sugar and starch.

Definitely definitely try that. The post antibiotic starting is the clue here.

[Youngatheart00]

If you are subsequently diagnosed and treated by the sexual health clinic and you’ve been repeatedly fobbed off by your GP, I think it’s well worth making a formal complaint to the Surgery and CQC (The regulator) regarding clinical negligence. Especially as he has repeatedly refused to refer you to gynae and his comments re sexual health clinic show a real ignorance / lack of understanding.

When I hear of things like this it makes me worry so much for older people or those who are vulnerable who don’t or can’t challenge or make repeat visits

[slipperywhensparticus]

@Tootsey11

I suggested to the Gp that I go to the sexual health clinic.

His reply " what you wanna go there for" , I said they could maybe give me an answer quicker, than all this guessing.

He asked had i been with anyone new, no same partner for 20 years. "Well then you don't need to go"

which is bullshit because even long term partners cheat 🙄 and FFS you need help medical help the sort a fucking GP is supposed to provide

your GP sounds like an arse

[Northernsoullover]

Oh and absolutely go to the sexual health clinic. No one knows the reproductive system better than those lovely lot.

[Northernsoullover]

Hi OP, I'm sorry your thread got derailed by childish and pathetic posters. I had a copper coil, not mirena but it caused me no end of problems. BV (that was nice ). Pain, and general malaise. I would seriously consider getting it removed. They may be great birth control but at the end of the day they are foreign bodies in your body. When I had mine removed the nurse said 'ooh yes there is a bit of a smell'. I think all the time I'd had it there was a low level infection down there.

[Tootsey11]

I suggested to the Gp that I go to the sexual health clinic.

His reply " what you wanna go there for" , I said they could maybe give me an answer quicker, than all this guessing.

He asked had i been with anyone new, no same partner for 20 years. "Well then you don't need to go"

[Lovemusic33]

OP, your best bet is to phone sexual health clinic. Like you I have been back and forth to the GP with women’s issues for 18 months, being fobbed off and refused a referral to gynaecologist. A few days ago I went to a sexual health clinic, they were amazing, gave me an internal exam and took swabs (something go has never done), took bloods and ran loads of test, I am still waiting for some test results. I have been told I likely have PID and I’m now being treated with a load of antibiotics, if these don’t work then I will be referred for more tests. I am so angry with my GP for fobbing me off, I don’t think they take woman’s problems that seriously especially in healthy women.

[Tootsey11]

Thankyou @Honeybobbin. I did find some of the comments ott. I only started the thread hoping that someone had been through similar, and would put an end to these horrible symptoms. I do believe now that I have cytolytic vaginosis. All the symptoms tally and I have started with baking soda baths and also made a paste out of it to use as a cream. This is truly horrible and I've struggled since May with this after taking two courses of antibiotics for coronavirus side effects.

I just want to be able to walk and sit without pain!

[Tootsey11]

@Hiddennameforever, allergic reaction to what?

How did you know. What were your symptoms?

[Hiddennameforever]

I got this in my lungs. It’s white cells Eosinophils.
Allergic reaction.
In my case It’s in my lungs.

[FinlandFlag]

Could you be allergic to the mirena coil?