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[CLKD]

Applicators wash under warm running water.

Thrush - Yesterday I read that this is less common as we age.  Must find the article to quote.

My symptoms niggle below the belly button with a feeling of fullness so I know that it's time to reload.

[Ayesha]

I do think that if you have tested positive for thrush and had an actual UTI, then you are not just simply suffering from VA and it makes your journey all the more complicated. You will have a lot of trial and error experimenting with all the treatments available until you find a solution.

There are posts here with women having to navigate their way around VA whilst suffering from thrush and other conditions that affect the vagina, research is everything to help you find the answers that will help you eventually.

[EmTyler]

Thanks Ayesha, it does feel quite overwhelming. The thrush is new since starting the vaginal oestrogen 9and possibly triggered by the antibiotics?). It sounds as though it is trial and error rather than everyone finding that two weeks loading plus then twice a week works for them.

[EmTyler]

All my symptoms have come back - I had several great days of alternating external cream and internal pessaries and then a couple of days ago I realised that I was back to the start. What else can I do? Is  it too much oestrogen? Not enough? No option to add testosterone.

[Ayesha]

Pessaries every day and a smear of Estriol twice a day and hopefully that will help. Adding thrush to the mix makes it all the more complicated in trying to relieve the symptoms, it will be an uphill battle for you.

Use the search box here for more info, lots of ladies in the past have been in the same situation as you.

[CLKD]

EmTyler - get some LIVE yoghurt down you.  ABs can wipe out all the bacteria so LIVE yoghurt can ease the digestive tract from top to bottom.  Thrush-symptoms can irritate if the vagina is dry, so keeping up with the VA treatment every night is important regardless of what GPs suggest.

[EmTyler]

Amazing thank you lovely people, it’s such a relief to read replies and I will try the search function also.
I’m vegan but I have bought some probiotics for vaginal health and haven’t started them, will do that. I also found a menopause clinic I might ask about. Maybe I do need to try every day plus cream, thank you