If you’re someone who suffers from chronic yeast infections, you may want to hear this: it may be an allergy.
Over the years I essentially stayed with a yeast infection. I would take fluconazole and within days, especially if there was any sort of sexual activity or heavy working out, I would have a yeast infection. I just knew that this was my reality forever.
Recently, I had some other health issues going on that were causing inflammation in different parts of my body, including my vagina. I did have a yeast infection, but I also had some other strange discharge that was not associated with any STDs or STI‘s, including the plasmas.
Because I was at such a loss, my doctor suggested that I could be having a histamine response presenting vaginally. It felt silly to me at the time, but I did do some digging, and I found a few articles to support the idea that my recurrent yeast infections could potentially be an allergy.
I can send the links to the articles to anyone who wants to see. I don’t know how to add them without the post being removed.
But here’s the conclusion to one study titled “Successful treatment of refractory recurrent vaginal candidiasis with cetirizine plus fluconazole”
“Patients with RVC (recurrent vaginal candidiasis) refractory to standard antifungal therapy and a history of allergy may respond to the combination of antihistamine and antifungal therapy.”
So I started taking Zyrtec every day. It started out as just a test to see if it could have been a histamine response, and lo and behold I haven’t had a yeast infection since I started taking it.
I did take a 200 mg fluconazole just before I started taking Zyrtec to clear the last yeast infection I had, but since taking the Zyrtec, I have been yeast infection free. Even with working out and with sex.
This has been such a relief to me after many years of chronic yeast infections, and believing that that was my normal. I hope this helps even one woman who feels lost and confused about what’s going on with her vaginal health.
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