Vaginitis
I actually pondered for a bit between whether this was an open thing to blog about. But then, seeing that three out of four women experience vaginal thrush at least once in their lives I suppose its about time.
IT ITCHES LIKE MAD!!!
I will never ever glare at the next ugly guy who scratches his balls in public again. Ever. Having an itchy crotch is terribly uncomfortable, and try forcing your way around the corridors of the office plans, or trying very hard to keep your professional smile in place as you attempt to keep your fingers from prying into the secret folds of your lower body.
Yucks.
I probed our good resident pharmacist Fer for home remedies (didn't want to spread my legs wide at a strange panel doctor) and she messaged me about the yoghurt remedy.
'Stick a tampon in yoghurt and insert it up your vagina.'
Like. Ewww… that's pretty DISGUSTING, ey?
Then I told my senior editor about it, this nice lady who's old enough to be my mother, and she literally forced me to go see 'the nearest lady doctor'. This was when I was introduced to the concept of pessaries. Candistatin Vaginal Tablets. Yuckie kuaci-like yellow tablets that you push into that part of the body just before you head off to sleep.
Last night was a horror. Bad enough that it felt horribly uncomfortable having something stuck up there (I swear I'd rather sleep through the itch), but no one told me about the non-stop excreting of yellow mucus, as the tablet dissolved within me. And I've got to do this every single night for five nights in a row.
This is bad, bad, bad. I'll never look at bread and beer in the same way again. Yeast is such a horrible bacteria fungi fungus. Horrible.
*Eric is so going to kill me for posting this.*
February 1st, 2005 at 11:48 am
Ummm…sorry to hear you got that. Hope you get well soon. Just that…umm…yeast isn’t a bacteria. It’s…ummm…a fungi.
February 1st, 2005 at 11:57 am
you’re brave to blog about something like this
i applaud your honesty!
February 1st, 2005 at 2:51 pm
reduce yr sugar intake for now. take more yogurt & lactobassilus (sp?)
February 1st, 2005 at 5:01 pm
damn, you are on brave lady.
I admire your honesty. Take care though.
February 1st, 2005 at 5:07 pm
Gee… You could have just popped into any pharmacy. Or at least you can in the UK. Thrush treatments are some of the most popular over-the-counter products I stock. Examples include Diflucan (fluconazole 150mg, a one-off oral capsule), Canesten 500mg Vaginal Tablets (a single-dose clotrimazole-containing pessary also available in three- and five-dose lower-strength versions) and Canesten cream 2%.
PS “Fungi” is a plural term, and there are many varieties of yeast. Therefore, “yeasts are such horrible fungi.” Alternatively: “Candida albicans, a yeast, is such a horrible fungus.”
February 1st, 2005 at 8:30 pm
Hey, cool, now I know what to do if I ever get that stuff.
February 1st, 2005 at 10:04 pm
*hur hur* couldn’t believe you actually posted that! what i said! *haha*
well, YL, canesten is a P medicine here but i thought diflucan is a POM? anyway, *tee hee* i should’ve told her to get a canesten pessary but she wanted something to take in.
aiya woman! in the end went to the doctor’s and gotten a pessary. *hehe* and why 5 days?! i thought either two 100mg pess for 3 days or one 500mg pessary for one-dose treatment?
February 1st, 2005 at 10:35 pm
dunno lah. the second doctor i went too even told me 5days is not enough. must take it for at least 2 weeks apparently.
in the end i went and bought a diflucan tablet for 24.90 on prescription. Sheesh… do i need it on prescription? When should I take my next dose?
What foods should i avoid?
February 1st, 2005 at 11:50 pm
gosh! i must applaud your bravery too. could i invite you as my campaign guest if my STD campaign gets the thumbs up? you’ll be evryone’s role model seriously… =)
February 2nd, 2005 at 8:27 am
yuen li or fer would help me confirm that a yeast infection is not an STD… it is rather common to the female population, like i said, 3 out of 4 women experience it once in their lifetime.
February 2nd, 2005 at 10:01 am
minishorts, if u are taking the 150mg tab of diflucan, there’s supposedly no need for a second dose. if it happens again within the span of 6 months(?) then you may need to go see the doctor again.
yeap! it’s not an STD. The partner may be one of the source of re-infection (but if the partner has no symptoms, unlikely to get reinfected)
February 3rd, 2005 at 9:04 pm
hello there, I realised I might have offended ya in some way. I assumed you got it sexually that’s why the jump at the comment I posted earlier. Not all thrush is sexually passed on. Got my facts right. sorry for the embarassment caused =)
March 8th, 2005 at 10:51 am
[...] .
Filed under: Women — minishorts @ 6:51 pm
On Feb 1, I had a bout of thrush. This was when I was exposed to a horridly burning sensation in my groins. It itched, and it itc [...]