r/vulvodynia • u/marystreasure • 3d ago

Chronic YI or vulvodynia?

22 F

FIRST EVER yeast infection. Itching and urgency never subsided. Fluconazole didn't touch symptoms. External swab was positive. Been testing neg on internal swabs. Flares into burning over period, hot weather, running, sexual activity. Varies hour by hour. Itch dominant. Sometimes stabbing pain. Nocturia and frequency. Is this a yeast infection that embedded and so never cleared up or a nerve condition?!???

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u/Dry_Peace4482 3d ago

If it’s showing up positive it is probably imbedded, mine was.

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u/marystreasure 3d ago

I've only repeated an external swab 2 and a half months after getting a positive external swab. Symptoms never left and I doubt it'll show positive anymore. But I know it's still there. I'm convinced the majority of women whose 'vulvodynia' began with an infection, still have that infection. Just like majority of IC sufferers have embedded uti. Like I treated an embedded uti that tested positive then repeat negatives and I've gone from that to embedded candida 

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u/Dry_Peace4482 3d ago

You make a very valid point. Doctors need to care more about women’s health imo and look more into things especially when someone’s pain started with an infection.

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u/marystreasure 3d ago

literally!! like I was 100% right about having a uti. I mean ffs it always repsonded to antibiotics I jsut needed a longer course. Now I've bounced from a chronic uti to chronic candida. I was an athlete, I haven't slept properly in a year!! 

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u/Dry_Peace4482 3d ago

I used a clotrimazole + steroid cream I can’t remember the name of only on my vulva cause I didn’t have an infection in my vagina just the vulva

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u/marystreasure 3d ago

BTW what did u use to treat ur embedded candida? The problem is they never cultured mine for speciesisation so I don't even know what kind it is!!!! ughhhhhhh Currently trialling nystatin pessaries after fluconazole failure