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[Minusminnie]

This mentions use of treatment for thrush for 6 months  https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/thrush-in-men-and-women/

Under causes it mentions damaged or irritated skin letting thrush in.  Do you think all the va etc is doing that ?

You have enough to contend with as it is Diedre.

[CLKD]

Cottage cheese discharge is usual with thrush.   Candida feeds on sugars .......... when I suffered: twice : it was the itchiness high up that was awful. 

Have U tried eating LIVE yoghurt to cleanse the digestive tract from top to bottom [where it likes to live] ......... it won't do the gut any harm but may well ease the thrush.

I've been reading a book about a girl who fled Iran when the Shah was deposed: her description of the foods available as well as those in the Florentine markets when she moved .........  and I'm not a foody but her ideas might be worth a whirl for us .

Interesting:  VA treatments, unless the vaginal skin is very thin shouldn't impact on introducing bacteria etc.. 

[Minusminnie]

Not the treatments as such but the occasional flare ups which then cause irritation.

[Wrensong]

Dierdre, have you tried the Canesten  soft gel pessaries (rather than the hard ones)?  At this stage of life there is sometimes not enough moisture for the hard pessaries to dissolve properly & do their thing.  I was told years ago by a very good GP who'd formerly worked in a Meno Clinic that the oral Canesten/Fluconazole is often not that effective & best to treat vaginally.  The gel pessaries have always worked best for me.  Oral less so & can't dissolve the hard pessaries at this age.
Wx

[CLKD]

I tried canastan pessary years ago    I sat in a cold bath for hours afterwards 

[Wrensong]

Ouch CLKD  - yes unfortunately they can burn a bit when the skin is inflamed.

[CLKD]

Ouch indeed  and probably not appropriate treatment as I diagnosed myself 

[Wrensong]

Well that's entirely reasonable CLKD, when we can get these treatments otc; I think if we've had a particular condition before it makes sense to try to resolve it without involving a medic.  But we don't always get it right.  Especially at menopause when we suddenly wake up to find someone's swapped overnight the body we knew so well for decades . . . for one that makes no sense at all 
Wx

[Dierdre]

I've been given 500mg clotrimazole pessary and cream. Won't need the cream as nothing externally. I had this pessary last time and it took a couple of days to dissolve because I was so dry up there after suffering an atrophy flare up but ok now, so hopefully it will dissolve and work properly.

My VA is under control again thankfully but it's been a long haul getting there.
I've changed my regime to vagifem every other night and ovestin every night but just externally. The fillers in Vagifem seem to have been irritating lately, wonder if something has changed in the manufacturing process, anyway I seem to be better using less for now. Never thought I'd say that!

Wrensong, If this Caneston pessary doesn't completely clear the thrush up this time I'm going to ask for a longer treatment or try the gel one.

Minusminnie, I don't think the thrush really cleared up from last time as the pessary came out crumbly, VA much better now so it should melt.

CLKD, I eat loads of natural greek yoghurt with all those live good bugs in it but don't seem to make a difference or maybe it's keeping it from getting worse.

On a good note, had bloods back recently and liver was fine, she said it usually repairs itself. As for the gallstone, the specialist said to leave it, it may never bother me and if I get an attack in the future they just remove the gallbladder with keyhole surgery, very routine now.
So just got to have my kidney stone checked in September and hope it passes on its own.

[CLKD]

OUCH to the kidney stone.  Can it not be dissolved with laser therapy ?

Keep up with the LIVE yoghurt.  I vary which makes I buy/eat as there may be different good 'bugs' in them. 

If the 'vagifem' is irritating Deirdre, mayB use 'ovestin' instead?  Perhaps with a moisturiser.  Have U tried squeezing the 'vagifem' onto a finger for insertion ?  It may be soreness, I have one spot that makes me wince .

There must be a reason why women in particular are plagued with 'thrush'. 

Wrensong: my body disappeared slowly ......... now the hormones have stablised it's static.  For now 

[Dierdre]

I think they blast the kidney stones with ultrasound waves into small pieces you can just pass when you empty the bladder. Hopefully it's not too painful then and don't get stuck along the way.
I'm using Ovestin externally every night but might make that internal some nights instead of vagifem and see how that goes.

[CLKD]

Will U let us know?

[Dierdre]

Two days now and the caneston pessary has finally disolved into a paste, so I'm assuming it's doing the job. No irritation so far, which is rare for me as I'm so sensitive to everything.
It says in the leaflet to not use any other vaginal products but does anyone know when I can start using Vagifem again or I'm going to start having atrophy problems again soon. Been using Ovestin externally still and that seems to be keeping things going for now.

[CLKD]

Pity that the leaflet doesn't tell how long to leave out other products 

I would put a little ovestin into the vaginal opening tomorrow night then see if there's still evidence of the caneston pessary ?  Then begin the 'vagifem'.

[Dierdre]

Started taking ibuprofen today too, apparently there's evidence that ibuprofen also has an antimicrobial activity against Gram-positive, Gram-negative, and fungal microorganisms and helps when taken with Caneston.