Candida

[Katieeee]

Hello. I’m looking for some guidance please.

I have been suffering with vaginal thrush for four months - positive swab cultures throughout. I’m on a long term fluconazole treatment (6 month plan, I’m about 8 weeks into this) and I’m using gyno-daktarin (I’m about 4 days into this). I’ve been taking a probiotic and recently started eating kefir (a week ago)

I don’t really feel my symptoms have changed a great deal (soreness, irritation is the same. increase in discharge has dropped slightly) however I’m now experiencing what appears to be mucus type yellow, stringy floating type matter when I pass a stool (the stool itself is formed fine). I googled this, and all of a sudden saw photos of Candida in stools which are the same as what I saw!

I don’t really know what this would mean...as I haven’t had any problems with my bowels bar slight constipation, and I’m unsure whether this would signal a die off of Candida in general?

Any help would be very grateful!

Edit: the thrush began after three weeks of intensive antibiotics at the tail end of January, through to mid February! I have had blood work done - wbc count and inflammation etc all reported as normal

[Katieeee]

Anyone? 😥

[GAtherton Administrator Fungal Infection Trust]

It sounds like you are getting the standard treatment for stubborn episodes of thrush and that is usually successful but takes some time. It would be reasonable to assume that any antifungal treatment for thrush would also affect yeasts in your gut so you may experience some changes which are probably nothing to worry about - if at all concerned see your doctor. Candida & other yeasts are a completely normal and useful occupant of our gut.

Kefir & probiotics often thought to help restore the balance of microbes in our gut after taking courses of antibiotics and more generally. At a guess they could also cause changes in your stools but should pass in a few days.

Symptoms related to 'die-off' are one of those things that already have a definition in medical practice for something very severe but also very rare (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaris... so a doctor would probably refer to the gut disturbances you are experiencing as something quite different - unlike the many non-medical or complementary sources out on the internet. Hence the potiential for a good degree of confusion between patient & doctor.

[Katieeee in reply to GAtherton]

Thank you so much. It is reassuring to hear that the treatment might just take some time as the GPs I have seen don’t seem to stress that, and instead cause me anxiety as things haven’t really improved.

[introuble in reply to Katieeee]

Hi katie,

Recently my swap shown light candida too..

Given antibiotics but it won’t go away..

Now i try take antibiotics , hopefully it will go!

[Katieeee in reply to introuble]

I wouldn’t take antibiotics for thrush. Antibiotics often cause thrush. You need an anti fungal for thrush

[Katieeee in reply to GAtherton]

I have just had latest swabs back which have confirmed the strand of Candida to be Candida Glabrata. The doctor has said this is very rare and is waiting for advice on what to prescribe. Should I be worried about it’s rarity?!

[at1219 in reply to Katieeee]

what happened in the end?

[at1219 in reply to at1219]

im having similar problems

[TGeiger in reply to Katieeee]

How did you get tested for what strain you have