Reoccurring Oral Thrush with other symptoms
Hello,
I’m a 31 yr old female, first got oral thrush in June/July of 2025, after a dental cleaning (not sure if that caused it) it mainly flares in the oral mucosa tissues and gums in my mouth. It was so bad I felt as if I had fiber glass through my mouth. I also had swollen lymph nodes in my neck, and sinus congestion. I’m a pretty chronically stressed person too so that adds to it but I’ve had blood work done and I’m not immune suppressed in any way. At the time though I did have a booster to the MMR vaccine and I chalked the swollen lymph nodes up to an immune response to the vaccine. The nystain mouth was I was prescribed, did not work for me it made things worse. A round of fluconazole for 2 weeks got rid of it.
Fast forward to March 2026 when I noticed the oral thrush was back, my daughter was also sick with a virus at the time and I had a stuffy and runny nose. But then I noticed the white patches starting under my tongue again same spot every time and on the inside of my lips usually it’s always on the right the side of my mouth. I again had the same swollen lymph nodes, sinus congestions that was painful and almost felt like it was moving around in my face. I also had a feeling of ear fullness or pressure, my ears were constantly popping or needing to be popped. I also got pretty dizzy at times or felt off balance because of my ears is what I gathered. Again two weeks of Fluconazole and gone. Then had a check up at my doctors and told him about this and was fine chalked and said it flaired up due to chronic stress, got a requisition to check for any vitamin deficiencies.
Until now June 5 I noticed oral thrush starting again, swollen lymph nodes and that evening the sinus congestion on my right side was back felt like my throat was dry and I was having yellow and a little bit of blood in my snot when I blew my nose but that only happened when I woke up in the mornings, the rest of the day it was a light yellowy green kinda clear. I haven’t noticed much ear pressure except when having to blow my nose and my ears pop. This round is not as severe as the last two rounds and symptoms were way less bothersome. So I’m back on fluconzole again for two weeks, also following a candida diet since the thrush started again, no sugar, no carbs, nothing to feed the yeast.
I guess my question is now since having this three times and all having swollen lymph nodes, nasal congestion, a cough that makes me feel like I need to clear my throat and sometimes ear fullness. Is this something I should be getting a blood test for like could this be an invasive or systemic candidia infection? Like the life threatening kind…. I also have OCD regarding health anxiety and can easily work my self up. Im just wanting to know if this is something I should be going to the ER and trying to get the blood work done or is this something that can really wait until I see my doctor again in July. I’m looking for people’s opinions if others have had similar symptoms with oral thrush or if this could have also spread to my ears and nose which from what I’ve googled is not good. I’ve tried talking to doctors about this before and get brushed off and had to fight with everyone to listen to me that it was thrush in the first place which took a month and because it’s mostly on my gums and under my tongue dentists and doctors thought I was having a reaction to a something from the cleaning it took a month of begging to believe it was oral thrush to finally prescribe me Fluconazole. I am going to continue a candidia diet for a few months and I am also going to see a functional medicine doctor as well to get to the root cause of it being reoccurring. But would like to know if others have these other symptoms too with oral thrush or if this could have spread to my sinuses and ears.
Thank you