Please help serious womens problems

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Past yearI keep getting yeast infections, I use the usual Canesten and it clears up then comes back with vegance & worse within a month!
It’s extremely painful, it hurts to pee! 😩 It’s waking me up in agony and I fear it’s gone higher up as my pelvic bone hurts/ovaires and lower stomach.
At first I suspected it was the fragance toilet paper so switched that out to normal… it helped for a while and then came back again!
I am clean. i bath daily in plain water, no soaps or perfumes. Change my underwear 2/3 times a day, no tight underwear etc but it keeps coming back no matter what I do. I can’t keep going on like this, Ive had a smear & swabs all fine minus the yeast infection anyone else had this? What did you do to get rid?

You must go to the doctor. No one here can tell you what to do - get yourself checked out by someone who can prescribe the right medicine.

I did that, they just said take cenestan even though Ive been doing so.

Is your diet high in sugar?

How old are you? I suffered with dreadful itching just after my periods stopped. It wasn’t a yeast infection it was menopause.

Look at a low candida diet. Drink lots of water.
Make sure you use gentle washing powder and no conditioner.
My mum gets this from citric acid (its in so many things) maybe try a strict cut out of that for 4 weeks and see if it helps.
I hope it gets better soon.

Gum clinic.
There are other conditions that mimic thrush, which they will be aware of, and your GP just wouldn't think of.
Also, get a diabetes test.
Boric acid pessaries for a week really helped me when I had reoccurring thrush, buy them from boots. Its a 7 day course.

It could be menopause so I think you should go to a GUM clinic and get properly tested. Good luck xxx

Are you sexually active. Could your partner be part of this cycle?

If you have a sexual partner, has he/she been checked out?

Could it be lichen sclerosus? Look it up.

A good friend of mine thought she had constant thrush but it turned out to be this.

What do you wash clothing with? Have you also tried avoiding scented products and given then an extra rinse? But yes, a trip to the gum clinic counts like a good idea.

I had this, the doctor prescribed me 6 pessaries and told me to use one every three days and not to have sex for 3 weeks while I was being treated. It worked.

You can also get a course of oral anti fungals (fluconazole),
I agree with previous posters that a trip to the GUM clinic would be a better idea than the GP,
then you can rule out anything else.
If it really is just thrush you can insist the canesten alone isn’t working and you need something stronger

34 so not menopause. I am on the implant though. No diabetes. Diet isn’t very high in sugar, I already tried to cut it out. No STDs, had a check last year and not possible to have one in that time frame.

I am in agony. I wash with surf washing powder, should I try anything else? I will try & get in to my GP in the morning and suggest the 6 pessaries, I can’t go on like this. I can barely sit down!

Have you had it confirmed by a test that it is thrush as it sounds very much like aerobic vaginitis.

Are they swabbing you to check it really is thrush?

I would treat as if eczema/lichen sclerosus for now whilst waiting for GP. Either wash underwear in a non perfumed non bio powder (e.g. Surcare) with an extra rinse or wash without any detergent at all at a higher temp.

Make sure you're ironing your knickers too, and steam shorting the crotch.
It kills any thing nasty living there as our laundry temperature settings are too low for hygiene.

Get rid of the surf😱 you need perfume free non bio for sensitive skin (m & s do a good range and not expensive, liquid is £5.50 for 50 washes).
Pure cotton underwear, not the ones with lycra!
Acidophilus capsules from somewhere like Holland and Barratt or similar (probiotics like you get in live yoghurt), eat yeo valley live yoghurt, reduce sweets/chocolate and sorry if TMI but natural live organic yeo valley yoghurt on a tampon pre shower, as messy, is very soothing.
I had a period of time, probably in my 30s a long time ago, where I seemed to get it every month at a certain point in cycle so presume was hormone related, the above got it under control without resorting to canesten every month.

If you have a partner they can have it and just keep passing it back to you. I had a friend who had this and she got a strong form of anti fungal medication op and she had to take it back to back for a while to fully get rid. Does your gp know it’s that bad?

Go to the GUM clinic. Get tested for everything.

If it is thrush, you probably need fluconazole tablets as well as Canestan cream. One of the Canestan dual products includes a fluconazole tablet as well as the cream, so you may have tried this already. If that's not doing it, you might need a course of fluconazole tablets, not just one, which would need a prescription. If you have a partner, he or she needs to be treated with fluconazole as well.

But if you are tested for everything, it might show up other things, which might need different treatment, rather than anti fungals.

What was causing mine was bathing in Epsom salt and essential oils after exercise.
It was recommended to me by a (male) physio, and after a few months of suffering I realised every episode started within 3 days of a bath.
I stopped the baths, used boric acid pessaries and thankfully everything went back to normal.