Mumsnetters please help me before I go fully insane.
I’ve had what I’ve thought was Thrush on and off for 9 months. It always comes 2/3 days before a period is due (so hormonal?) and then will only go (historically) with a dose of fluconazole and a canestan pessary. I’ve been to the Dr with this latest bout, and left it untreated as I wanted to know exactly what was going on. They’ve done a high vaginal swab - she said “oh wow that’s a lot of discharge” but the discharge isn’t thick and cottage cheese like in texture. It’s more whitish and runny? But a lot of it. I’ve got intense itching that goes from my clitoris through my labia and I throb, the stinging is horrible. I’ve been like this for 2 weeks now and just bit the bullet and took a fluconazole and used a pessary.
I should say I’ve got bladder prolapse from a horrific birth which resulted in a 3B tear into my spinchter, so my lady bits are already ugly as anything. I use oestrogen cream for the prolapse and a vaginal moisturiser already, I know it’s not due to atrophy or dryness. We’re trying to conceive for DC2, so fluconazole isn’t a long term option for me. The GP has prescribed me 6 months of canestan pessaries one to take each week. I’m already at my wits end and the pain is unreal. I’ve been to the GP 3 times about this now. I know I need to wait for my swab to come back. But how can I treat this for good? I take probiotics, I’m being tested for diabetes, and I do all the standard practice (cotton undies, PH balanced wash etc). Please help one frustrated Mum.