Cured after three years
Hi everyone! I thought I would come on here and share a bit of positivity. This is a bit of a long story but hopefully it brings some hope.
About three years ago I started getting persistent BV/yeast infection-like symptoms and ovarian pain/tingles. Everything kept coming out negative so I would just use some boric acid and pray. It would come and go and doctors wrote it off as “hormones”. I was put on multiple rounds of different birth controls but nothing helped and I got used to the irritation.
Last year I began to experience the worst vaginal itching and irritation of my life. Then I began to have UTI after UTI. No antibiotics worked and they would cause me to have back and forth rounds of BV and yeast infections. Finally after 9 months of that, a new doctor (this was my fourth one) swabbed me for ureaplasma/mycoplasma and took a vaginal biopsy. A week later I found out I had lichenoid dermatitis and ureaplasma parvum! I was put on one week of doxycycline 100 mg BID and I was given Clobetasol ointment for the Dermatitis. 6 weeks go by and I knew I still had ureaplasma. I had a vaginal ultrasound and it came back normal but I did a UA and a swab again and I still had it. This time my partner was treated and I was treated for two weeks doxycycline 100mg BID. I was not given the option of azithromycin but I am allergic so I let it go.
After that round of antibiotics, I still felt off so I ordered my own Evvy test and turns out I had BV. Took metronidazole, took a preemptive fluconazole for any yeast infections and finally…. Relief. I still had residual irritation from the dermatitis but I have gotten it down to hydrocortisone cream once a week at night and I don’t think I’m gonna be needing it anymore!
I will say that throughout this, many doctors dismissed me. I was given multiple antihistamines saying it was an allergy. I had one doctor say I had interstitial cystitis. No one could given me an answer until 3 years of torture. I still am not 100 percent but my ureaplasma symptoms are entirely gone. I am also happy to say I have tested negative :). I did take probiotics throughout but now only take them three times a week as a maintenance dose.
Please feel free to ask me any questions. My presentation was a little “weird” for ureaplasma but I am just happy to be on the other side.