If you are a woman, you may have experienced vaginitis at least once.
It was fine before, but after I had vaginitis once, it got better, then came back again, and it keeps repeating.
Some days it itches, and some days it doesn't itchiness at all...
The discharge is sometimes heavy and then normal, and then it keeps happening.
I went to the hospital and got tested and found out I had both candida and bacterial infections, but there were times when only candida came out, and they would come out alternately.
First of all, I was prescribed some medicine and a vaginal cream at the hospital, but I did get better after taking all the medicine.
But the problem is that if you forget about it to some extent, it happens again...ㅠㅠ
The term isn't short, but after repeating it several times, I started to wonder if it could be completely cured.
I had an ultrasound during my health checkup, and there was nothing wrong with it other than vaginitis.
Even if I take medicine, it only works for a short time, so honestly, it's burdensome and bothersome to go to the gynecologist every time I have symptoms.
After taking medicine at the hospital, the symptoms would reappear a long time later, so I went to the hospital again and took medicine again, and I told them that I thought I had developed resistance because it was repeated. They said that everyone experiences vaginitis at least once, and that even people who say they have never had it often don't, so it's just a cold, and that I should take care of my immune system.
I know that managing your immune system is important, but it seems like completely curing vaginitis is harder than I thought.
Is there really no such thing as a complete cure, like rhinitis?
Are there any people like me who keep getting recurrent vaginitis?
I wonder if it's right to just get a prescription every time... I'm thinking about changing hospitals, but it's not easy to change hospitals because it's an obstetrics and gynecology department.
I'm currently taking probiotics, but I'm not really feeling the difference. Still, I'm taking them consistently, but for those who, like me, experience relapses after a bout of vaginitis, I'm curious to know which lifestyle changes or management methods have been most helpful.
I'm also curious if there are people who have experienced it once, recovered completely, and no longer go to the hospital.
If there are people who have had similar experiences, please share your management methods.