This year I have had ongoing problems with urgency, frequency and burning urethra. The start of it coincided with a new regime of tetracycline antiobiotics prescribed for my rosacea. Despite stopping taking them the symptoms continued. (It took me a long time to realise that the flare up would also have been around the time my Ortho-Gynest pessaries ran out and were replaced with Gynest cream). In the meantime I had been unsuccessfully treating with Canesten cream too as I wondered if the symptoms were Thrush related.
Just recently, deciding it perhaps wasn't strong enough, I stopped using Gynest cream and asked my GP for Vagifem. After 8 days of the initial two week loading, things were definitely feeling more comfortable but I experienced difficulties with dryness during 'relations' which never happened with Gynest. As per my previous post on this thread I decided last night to add in Gynest cream as an additional measure. During the night my urethra started to burn. By morning the discomfort of a full bladder sent me rushing to the toilet and it has been like that all today. (I definitely meet the criteria for Interstitial Cystitis). Am now wondering if it's Gynest cream that triggers it all off?
Oh and the Vagifem pessary dropped out this morning, (undissolved
) into the toilet. Of course this may have been because I didn't insert it high enough, guess I need to stop experimenting with the position of it until it's had a chance to work...
I never had any previous problems with burning when on the Ortho-Gynest pessaries and didn't realise up until now that Gynest cream
isn't exactly the same stuff - in fact on reading the ingredients, now wonder whether the peanut oil that's used as a carrier, is irritating things down below?
I experienced a lot of bladder trouble when I was younger - infections and irritability, but over recent years managed to find a regime that settled it down (which I pontificated about on the 'My Bladder' thread - Karma???!!) I'm getting really fed up now as nothing I do seems to help and
I feel it's taking over my life (also I still have a spotty face but that's another issue!)
Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Are there really only three hormone preparations available for local use? Is Ovestin cream any different? I'm going to revert to the Vagifem only for now and just use my trusty old coconut oil for dryness when required. Watch this space....