I lastly dragged myself to the school well being middle complaining of yeast infections, and I received some prescription remedy. However I skilled the identical concern time and again: Typically it will go away, after which it will simply maintain coming again. I discovered myself on this nonstop cycle of going to the well being middle each few weeks. And it’s not like I used to be simply getting into for a routine examination—it felt very intimate and embarrassing to get a pelvic examination each few weeks. I imply, no person desires to be within the stirrups greater than they should. It was actually disrupting my life, not simply from the visits, nevertheless it additionally began to take a toll on my self-confidence.
After months of return visits, I began to turn into my very own advocate, and shared I actually didn’t suppose the remedy was working. Then I used to be placed on a longer-term course of antifungals (a weekly Fluconazole tablet for six months). It did work in a way, the signs briefly went away—however then a pair years later, the identical cycle began another time.
I used to be placed on one other six-month course of antifungal remedy, however then I began getting an allergic response (swelling, hives, the works). Because it turned out, I’d developed an allergy to the antifungal. Nonetheless, on the time, I used to be so determined for the vaginal signs to go away, typically I’d nonetheless take the remedy and hope that possibly (possibly!) the response wouldn’t be as dangerous because the final time. Nevertheless it at all times was. My docs ultimately switched me to a different remedy, however the recurrent cycle nonetheless continued.
This complete expertise went on for 5 years—via faculty, via grad college, and my transfer to New York.
