The Anxiety Spiral after one BV scare is real and nobody talks about it enough
Okay but can we normalize how mentally exhausting this is for a second? 😭 Because I had ONE bad BV scare months ago and my brain has literally never recovered. Now I'm checking every single day smell, discharge, appearance like I've become completely hyper-aware of every tiny thing down there and I hate it. The funniest/most frustrating part? Tests keep coming back normal. And instead of that being reassuring it just makes me more paranoid like "okay but what are they missing" lol The Google spiral is so real too. One tiny change and I've convinced myself my pH is permanently ruined or something is seriously wrong. And then every doctor says something slightly different, Reddit has completely opposite advice, and now I'm just… confused and anxious on top of anxious 😭 Does anyone else deal with this or is it just me? Like the actual physical stuff is manageable but the mental hyperawareness that comes after a scare is its own whole thing nobody really warns you about.