Not a troll, a regular poster.
I know I shouldn't be embarrassed by female health stuff but I am.
My vagina smells bad and has done for the past few days. It smells kinda like stale period blood/ wet dog. There's no abnormal discharge that I can see, I've got some discomfort in my lower abdomen.
I'm 46, and recently finished a 15 day course of high dose flucloxacillin which gave me thrush. I've treated the thrush with cream, it's still a bit itchy so will probably use a pessary too but thrush never smells like this for me.
I'm not sexually active so it's definitely not sexually transmitted.
I'm in peri. After a lot of abnormal bleeding, I got the contraceptive injection which has slowed my periods down to roughly 2 days a month. My last period was about a fortnight ago.
What could this be? The thought of having to go to the Dr and get examined makes me feel sick to the pit of my stomach, especially as the only appointments available are with a male nurse practitioner.