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I have a bit of a problems lately i have a yeast infection and have tried most of the remidies from the chemist to get rid of it but it still comes back. Has anyone had a yeast infection and got rid of it.

Thanks for any help

Cranberry juice?
Tried adjusting your diet?

Hi
Do I just drink the Cranberry Juice or use it on a tampon like the yoghurt remedy I'm a little unsure about the yoghurt idea. I have cut down on sugar but dont know if there is anything else diet related that will help.
Ive read that anti biotics can make it worse.

The over the counter creams available at the pharmacy seem to work pretty well to get rid of it, but keeping it gone may require extra work.

You may also want to take some other steps:

1: Sterilize your dilator with a bleach solution after each use, otherwise you will probably keep contaminating yourself with the yeast germs.

2: Use panty liners, and change them very frequently, until a couple weeks after the infection is gone, to help keep from spreading the yeast germs around, because all that white mucky stuff will have been spewing out. Even microscopic amounts of the yeast on some surface and re-contaminate you and the infection will start all over again.

3. When the homeopathic remedies fail, try using betadine douche for a while, which will provide intense vaginal cleansing that other substances don't.

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Expect at least one yeast infection during the first two-three years after vaginoplasty. It seems to be part of the body's process of getting used to the new internal environment.

Sometimes, yeast infections can be contracted from a lesbian sex partner too, so watch out for that.

Drink the cranberry juice

Thank you for the advice ive got lots of Cranberry Juice "to drink Vexing ;-)" and supplies of panty liners, I just need to make a trip to the Pharmacy, in town the local one dosnt sell betadine anymore. Bleach on my dilator may not be a good idea my Boyfriend might complain lol ;-).
I will let you know how i get on in a couple of weeks.

Thanks again for the advice.
Kerry

If your yeast infection just refuses to go away, it may be because your boyfriend himself is infected. Most men can carry a yeast infection without showing any symptoms.

If he has it, you're passing it back and forth.

Mmm good point crp im thick lol wheres the bleach.

Keza, Marcella: wrote exactly what I would have if she hadn't done so first. You had not mentioned your active sex partner as an aspect of your infection in your initial report. Just imagine, physicians deal with these sorts of complexities during diagnosis and treatment all the time.

The boyfriend issue ties into my previous thoughts though, with your giggle included, that you need to clean and re-clean everything your vulva might come in contact with, especially your boyfriend! It is really amazing that guys can carry the yeast infection around and not show any symptoms at all. It probably has something to do with the consequences of testosterone, and the consequent pH of their genital area.

Isn't it ironic that trans-women provide enormous bodies of evidence that our bodies are influenced primarily by hormones, not genetics. Your hormonal and physiological condition have combined to give you medical girl problems by the ton! But rest assured that your risk for yeast infection is likely to subside after just a couple years go by and as neo-vaginas become less and less "neo" it seems like they become better able to fend off the Candidiasis monster, in my experience.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candidiasis

Ahh bit like asking some stranger whats in my pocket? Sorry may be an introduction would have been in order,
Well here goes i had my op 20 years ago and have been with my partner for 22 years. I did have some problmes at first with yeast infections and as you say after a couple of years everything calmed. But this new batch of little yeasies seem hard to get rid of this time around. From what ive read it may have gotten hold after i was on antibiotics for a chest infection the times it started seems to tie up.
I think your right about been sexualy active and passing it back and forth i seem to get rid of it and then a couple of week later its back. Sending him to the docs next week untill then hes on his own if he gets frisky i whant rid of this.
chatting with the pharmacist betadine kills the good bacteria and can make it worse.