Its aweful isn't it Tasha. After I wrote this post things got worse. I was in agony. I ended up on a vaginal antibiotic as I am BF and couldn't have the oral one but that only cleared it up briefly. I'm so over it. I bleed almost every time we DTD. The blood is more of an Orange colour and varies in amount from lots to just a few spots. Condoms are an absolute no no as the friction of them even with heaps of lube makes it so much worse. The cream for thrush makes it much better. My Dr said some women are prone to it and its very hard to treat as although treatment works its usually only a few weeks or months and it returns. Thats exactly where I am at. Fortunately I am comfortable most of the time. I learnt how to deal with it most of the time.

What I didn't know years ago was I had it regularly. A little bit of itching here and there. Used thrush cream on/off which helped. I have thought I had a yucky odour and every time I went to the Dr it was dismissed. They did STD checks multiple times thinking it was something like that) although I was only DTD with DH. Anyway it has been going on for years and what I recently found out was that its what caused me to get pelvic inflammatory disease which is what caused my ectopic pregnancies and tubal damage which led to my fertility problems.

I'm hoping when my cycle returns things down below will improve. AF (which I haven't had since this time last year) seems to sooth the soreness I get and right now as I have no cycle I am quite dry so I seem to constantly have it. Hopefully when AF returns I get some relief. It saddnes me that this stupid condition did effect my fertility and I can't even shake it so if I was going to ttc again their would be even more damage to my one remaining damaged tube them before.

So if you are one of the women who are prone to it like me (I have it more then I don't) then perhaps see a nutritionalist or naturopath, herbalist. I want to see one but am completely broke. I've heard of herbal tampons and a variety of other natural methods to keep it at bay. Have you tried a pro-biotic? My GP told me that the thrush treatment helps (the vaginal cream that is) The antobiotics cream helps but as soon as I finish it its straight back again. I'm going to go see my gynea soon and see what he suggests but according to my GP there is not much that can be done to prevent its return.

Have you had a HSG or lap and dye?