Hi Midnight Shadow,
I came across this forum when I was googling C. glabrata. I was wondering how you are and if the infection has been cleared.
I have been suffering with a vaginal C. glabrata infection for nearly a year. I was initially given fluconazole and, five months later, a clotrimazole pessary and then 15 days of oral itraconazole. Even though I told the doctors this species is resistant to azoles, they kept prescribing these treatments. Nothing worked. At last, a GP contacted the head of the Microbiology department at the hospital and they referred her to the BASHH guidelines. I was given Nystatin (14 pessaries) and, since the symptoms persisted, I went on to 14 pessaries of boric acid. I still have symptoms, though. I have been reading a lot about this and it seems that it's very difficult to eliminate glabrata. I might also be in an early stage of perimenopause, and the hormones might be playing a role in the balance of vaginal flora. About a month before feeling the first infection symptom, I started feeling very intense lower back/pelvic pain. I went to a pelvic floor physiotherapist, and she helped a lot! That back pain is nearly gone. Coincidence or not, my symptoms (which were mainly discomfort in the vulva and around the entrance of the vagina) became a lot less, too. Nevertheless, they are still here, and lately I have been feeling some pain in the pelvis. It's not constant, but it's enough to keep me on alert mode.
The thought of having yeast overgrowth that is difficult to treat is not doing any good to my mental health.
I welcome any suggestions and would be happy to hear about your experience.
