i know there’s something wrong with me, but the drs are having a hard time figuring out what it is.

[arilishart]

had a yeast infection earlier this year that came back positive for candida glabrata. was first given two doses of diflucan by my school’s health center, none of them relieved any symptoms besides exacerbating them more and it caused more inflammation. eventually saw a gyn at my provider place instead and went forward onto prescribing boric acid for 21 days. once that was completed however, i was experiencing thick yellow-green tint like discharge with malodor instead. the gyn that i saw who prescribed me the boric acid squeezed me in and decided to do a wet prep and examine it under a microscope herself and found out i had bv. i believe there was an overlap of bv and yeast that i was having since jan. no signs of yeast were shown, however. i was prescribed to take flagyl for a week and that pretty much eliminated the symptoms at first.

however, after my period, the symptoms returned and i’m still in exhaustion about this. i went back to the gyn today and brought up my concern of this symptoms and i wanted to order tests for ureplasma and mycoplasma to make sure im cleared for those. also, on top of my period lessening throughout each month that im not bleeding as much as i used to be. i ordered a hormone test to see if there’s anything going on. i explained to her about the discharge and the odor, i was kind of met with “well that’s probably normal” and i told her im aware of what my natural smell is like, this one is pretty foul for me ever since January. “well maybe you’re getting older”. i told her my scent did not smell like that a month before i had glabrata and bv. repeated the wet prep again and examined it under a microscope, and it came back with few clue cells appearing but that “it’s normal”.

i basically felt pretty unsatisfied that i wasn’t being taken seriously despite her ordering the tests for me. i don’t know if im overreacting. but i’ve just been feeling like shit all day because i know there’s something going on despite what these drs are saying to me. like it feels weird for me to feel hurt because she actually was helpful on a lot of things, but i’m basically returning once these symptoms return that i feel like im getting difficult for them to treat. she suggested that at this point she might have to refer me to an infectious disease dr. because she doesn’t know what to do if these infections are recurrent.

i’ve tried talking to my mom about this and she insinuated that there’s something mentally wrong with me if the drs can’t even find out what’s happening. that felt pretty bad. i feel like im becoming a burden onto people and cant express how i feel without them getting tired. like i just need somebody to understand how im feeling and not tell me that im crazy or that theres something mentally wrong with me because im having chronic health issues.