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.
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.
What a riot!
The more you write, the more the possible origins of your difficulties become clearer. As I noted above, this topics/thread illustrates what a hard time physicians must have when trying understand how best to help a patient with this sort of problem! A more complete patient history is making a really big difference!
Only now have you disclosed crucial information like having used antibiotics recently. It is definitely well known that medications in the tetracycline family cause yeast infections to flourish. Imagine, there was a time in the 1970s and 1980s when such medications were prescribed as frequently as aspirin.
Although someone else mentioned using vinegar to clean dilators and such, from my experience and reading, dilute vinegar solution can be good for douching to control pH, but it doesn't do a good job of killing large active colonies of yeast and/or other problematic vaginal bacteria and/or fungi. In fact, you may want to get a dedicated plastic container that you can use for soaking things like dilators in a dilute bleach solution. Bleach works by totally destroying the physical bodies of the little critters, and not just yeast, but other bad vaginal bacteria and fungi as well. After the bleach soaking, it is important to thoroughly wash and rinse such items, and then store them in a known clean container, such as another plastic container that has also been thoroughly cleaned in the same manner as the dilators. It is just incredibly important important to maintain near surgical cleanliness with objects like dilators. The worst thing anyone can do is keep their dilator set in one of those cloth pouches that some surgeons like Toby Meltzer provides. That is just begging for repeat contamination, unless it were washed with bleach each time the dilators were used, which seems impractical. Even with a daily male sex partner, and even after 20 years, a little dilator exercise can be helpful for maintaining maximum depth, which requires regulator application of constant pressure on the apex of the vagina for at least 15-20 minutes at a time, if not longer.
Getting a male sex partner free of yeast may be a taller order than keeping dilators, underwear, and such clean. He may need to visit a physician and take a course of one of the prescription oral anti-yeast medications that is capable of getting rid of all the yeast cells that he may be carrying in his system without knowing it, such as:
Diflucan
Sporanox
Nizoral
which go after the yeast/fungal cells from the inside out.
The itchy thick white discharge that yeast infections create can be a nightmare, which reminds me, if the discharge isn't white and creamy, it may be a vaginal bacterium or fungus other than yeast!
Good luck with those stubborn little monsters!
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