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Vaginapocalypse
Oct. 14th, 2014 12:04 pmDay 8 of my 10 days on antibiotics; Day 2 of VICIOUS YEAST INFECTION FROM HELL.
This is how it always goes for me - it's gotten so bad at times that I have quit taking a course of antibiotics halfway through, because I just couldn't deal with the yeast infection anymore. And yes, I see that as both personally and socially irresponsible*.
The amount of miscellany I have injected into myself via syringe in the past 24 hours alone - peroxide, yogurt, coconut oil, probiotic powder... For what it's worth, even WebMD lists yogurt-as-cure instructions and interactions for Lady Yeast, so I am not just crazy.
YET. Nothing like waking from a dead sleep with the firey genital itch of doom making it impossible to lie still, to rapidly erode sanity.
I rarely get yeast infections if I'm NOT on antibiotics. If I do, any one of those things listed above will clear it up almost instantly. Peroxide especially is foolproof, there is a lot of info about this out there including at least one actual study. It's great because Peroxide also works for bacterial vaginosis, whereas most treatments for one aren't so good for the other. Did you know some people with IUDs end up with chronic bacterial vaginosis? Ask me how I know! The good news is, peroxide. I know another IUD user who has finicky vaginal pH and has had great results that she shouts from the rooftops, with boric acid. That is also something studied, that can be researched, though I haven't personally tried it.
I just know that the absolute best I can hope for, so long as I'm still regularly killing off all my good bacteria, is keeping symptoms moderate. This pains me, both literally and figuratively.
If you are a person suffering from frequent, chronic, or just current yeast infection or BV and would like to talk to me, a non medical, non certified, non expert about adventures in vaginal pH, I may be able to help you in the comments.
So long as you are not also on antibiotics.
* I am continuing this course of antibiotics, so please don't urge me to or yell at me about them. If you need to yell at me for the previous course I quit years ago, I will bow my head and take the abuse quietly as my due.
This is how it always goes for me - it's gotten so bad at times that I have quit taking a course of antibiotics halfway through, because I just couldn't deal with the yeast infection anymore. And yes, I see that as both personally and socially irresponsible*.
The amount of miscellany I have injected into myself via syringe in the past 24 hours alone - peroxide, yogurt, coconut oil, probiotic powder... For what it's worth, even WebMD lists yogurt-as-cure instructions and interactions for Lady Yeast, so I am not just crazy.
YET. Nothing like waking from a dead sleep with the firey genital itch of doom making it impossible to lie still, to rapidly erode sanity.
I rarely get yeast infections if I'm NOT on antibiotics. If I do, any one of those things listed above will clear it up almost instantly. Peroxide especially is foolproof, there is a lot of info about this out there including at least one actual study. It's great because Peroxide also works for bacterial vaginosis, whereas most treatments for one aren't so good for the other. Did you know some people with IUDs end up with chronic bacterial vaginosis? Ask me how I know! The good news is, peroxide. I know another IUD user who has finicky vaginal pH and has had great results that she shouts from the rooftops, with boric acid. That is also something studied, that can be researched, though I haven't personally tried it.
I just know that the absolute best I can hope for, so long as I'm still regularly killing off all my good bacteria, is keeping symptoms moderate. This pains me, both literally and figuratively.
If you are a person suffering from frequent, chronic, or just current yeast infection or BV and would like to talk to me, a non medical, non certified, non expert about adventures in vaginal pH, I may be able to help you in the comments.
So long as you are not also on antibiotics.
* I am continuing this course of antibiotics, so please don't urge me to or yell at me about them. If you need to yell at me for the previous course I quit years ago, I will bow my head and take the abuse quietly as my due.
