Vaginal symptoms nobody mentions in either conversation

Started 13 November 2024 · 24 replies · 271 hearts · read 3.4k times

HannahSheffield, UK · 13 November 2024

1.7 years ago

Something I have been sitting with: Vaginal symptoms nobody mentions in either conversation Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

Some background first, because it matters for the question.

What I would find most useful is not advice. It is somebody describing what their version of this was, and how long it went on for.

I am aware some of this may be nothing. I would still like to know whether other people have had it, because I have spent a fortnight assuming I am the only one.

I will report back either way, because I have been helped by other people's follow-ups more than by their questions.

HollyBath, UK

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.

LeniLeipzig, DE

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.

AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

Gently: you have apologised three times in a post where you have done nothing that requires an apology.

NyreeChristchurch, NZ

I asked my nurse the same question and she said something I have repeated ever since: that the aim is to keep you on treatment, not to get you up the schedule.

GwynforLlanidloes, UK

Gently disagreeing with the reply above, or rather adding the other half of it.

My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.

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CoralieMarseille, FR

What helped was lowering my own expectations of the week rather than trying to hold the week together.

FenellaCirencester, UK

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

AbramAmsterdam, NL

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

I am the person who had the frightening version of this. I went in, it was investigated, and it was not what anyone feared. Going in is the whole of my advice.

LlianCarmarthen, UK

I did exactly the same and felt terrible about it. You have not done anything wrong.

Birdie BWhitstable, UK

#10

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.

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BettinaGraz, AT

#11

Reading the reply above, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

For what it is worth, the trial data on this is thinner than the confidence of the internet would suggest. Worth knowing when you read the posts.

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WellsChester, UK

#12

It got worse before it got better for me, which I wish someone had said. About ten days of worse.

HalCambridge, UK

#13

The thing that changed it for me was going slower, agreed with my prescriber. I am not suggesting you do that. I am saying the conversation exists.

MarnieAyr, UK

#14

Have you got anyone who can be with you when you do it? It made an enormous difference to me and I felt silly asking.

HannahSheffield, UK

#15

My pharmacist was more use than anyone. Ten minutes at the counter, no appointment, no charge.

HollyBath, UK

#16

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

Can I gently push back on one thing? Not the substance, just the framing — you have written twice that you should be coping better. Who told you that?

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LeniLeipzig, DE

#17

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

Yes to the burping. It is real, it is unbeautiful, and it does settle.

BirdieMargate, UK

#18

I am about four months behind you and I have been dreading exactly this, so thank you for writing it down before I got there.

NyreeChristchurch, NZ

#19

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.

GwynforLlanidloes, UK

#20

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

Different experience here, for balance. Mine did not improve and in the end I stopped, and that was the right call for me. Both outcomes exist.

CoralieMarseille, FR

#21

No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.

FenellaCirencester, UK

#22

I keep a two-line diary and it is the only reason I could answer this question about myself. Worth starting even now.

AdaFacilitatorManchester, UK

#23

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

Two things, both boring. First, none of us can tell you what to take. Second, the conversation you want to have is with your prescriber, and we can help you write it down.

LlianCarmarthen, UK

#24

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

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