u/MakingBaconnPancakes

About a week ago I started getting vaginal itching, white discharge, redness, skin irritation and splitting. I ended up going into an urgent care, and the doctor said it was most likely BV, but took a swab sample for a lab to confirm. He also gave me a script for metrogel to treat.

The medication has been working, as I’m about 95% better now, but they just called me with the lab test results saying that everything came back clear.

How is that even a thing?

About a week ago I started getting vaginal itching, white discharge, redness, skin irritation and splitting. I ended up going into an urgent care, and the doctor said it was most likely BV, but took a swab sample for a lab to confirm. He also gave me a script for metrogel to treat.

The medication has been working, as I’m about 95% better now, but they just called me with the lab test results saying that everything came back clear.

How is that even a thing?

Went to a walk in clinic today and was given a prescription for some cortisone suppositories. Everyone here says nifedimine is the what to use, so I asked about that, but he told me to use these for 10-14 days, then we can revisit.

I’m at a bit of a loss on this one, is this a normal course of treatment?

I’ve been taking a bunch of stool softeners to help go, and use some lidocaine lubricant to help ease things out if I can, but I still am having a difficult time passing anything.

TMI from here on: even with stool softeners and lube, I’m still having hard stools. Once I get some of it out, then everything softens up, but by then the damage is already done. I can literally feel when the tear happens, and I cant stop this cycle of tear, heal for a day or two, retear, heal for a day or two. How do you all manage to get ahead of it??? I’m dreading going to the bathroom at this point.

I’ve been using estradiol cream for a while now, just doing the twice a week application now. I’m still feeling some symptoms of dryness in certain positions, and even if when use additional lube it doesn’t really help. I only feel the pain, or sort of a tugging sensation on the back side, (posterior?) not the entire area or entrance. It’s a bit hard to explain the sensation.

Is this just a sign to apply estradiol more often? It’s like, it’s helped 90% of things, but I’d like it to help 100%.

Can I get some ideas to up my daily fiber macros without resorting to overly processed net carbs? I try and keep my diet “clean keto” as I’m one of the unlucky ones whose body says “oh that’s a starch!” Out of ketosis.

Right now I’m usually having a triple zero yogurt with a good scoop of chia seeds in the morning, scoop of generic psyllium husk or the supplement pills, and have some dark leafy greens with dinner, like a salad or brussel sprouts. Most days I’ll have pecans, cucumber, celery, olives as a snack too, but what exactly varies, so it’s hard to assign a number.

Any thoughts?

So I’m pretty positive I gave myself a fissure yesterday pushing too hard too fast. I’ve had small hemorrhoids in the past, and this in absolutely nothing like that.

This happened when I was going to the bathroom yesterday, I felt it when it happened, and then the blood and pain was enough to give me an anxiety attack. After a few hours the pain settled and the bleeding stopped, I was figured everything was ok.

Wrong. Today I received an education on how wrong that was. Anything involving picking something up, or physical labor, would cause it to hurt. Just going to pee? Ouch. I had another small BM, and it was just a few small pebbles, they may as well have been razor blades, because my gosh, that was just horrible.

I went and picked up some lidocaine cream, and it does help a little bit, but that’s probably not going to help the healing?

I’m reading here about chronic ones lasting 6 months???? This can’t go on that long right? Please tell me these generally get at least a little better after a few days? What’s the best OTC treatment? I didn’t see anything specific for fissures at the store.