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Harold Richardson4 said:LISTEN, IF YOU HAVE ANY FAMILY MEMBERS IN WASHINGTON, D.C.,
please, for heaven's sake, have one of them pick up those pain relief patches for me. Good grief, I don't know how much longer I can take this. I’ll personally ensure I extract the source of this discomfort myself if I have to. I spent the entire day arguing with my sisters just to get them to give Mom her back medication; she is in absolute agony from being bedridden.
ANYONE CURRENTLY IN THE D.C. AREA, PLEASE—IF YOU ARE BRINGING HER ANYTHING, FIND A WAY TO SMUGGLE THOSE PATCHES IN. Surely someone must have access to them somewhere.
It’s impossible to just get those patches; the system is designed to make you suffer through red tape until you're exhausted. This damn country.
Just don't give up. You have to be relentless, even a little bit difficult, and demand to see ten different doctors. You know how it goes—in their eyes, you're just a nuisance for actually caring about him.😠
electricgardener14, please just keep fighting. Don't back down. Cry, plead, threaten—honestly, just forget about being polite or following social norms. There's no other way to navigate this broken-down system we're stuck in.
What exactly happened?
Any kind of hormonal birth control—including pills like Catherine—definitely plays a role when it comes to yeast infections. Hormonal therapy alters the natural environment of the vaginal mucosa, which essentially makes it more vulnerable and less resilient against various types of infections.
You could certainly keep taking Catherine, assuming everything else is fine, you aren't experiencing other side effects, and your lab results look good; there’s no strict requirement to stop just because of yeast issues. However, I have to be honest: your battle against those infections will likely feel much more grueling and difficult than it would if you weren't on hormonal therapy at all.
I personally was on a similar hormonal pill for years, and during that whole time, I just couldn't seem to shake the Candida infections—and honestly, I won't even go into the full list of everything I tried, because that would be a five-year story in itself. Eventually, I stopped the pills, and after just one single round of vaginal suppositories and an ointment (if I recall correctly, it was something like Geonistin and Nystatin), the problem was finally resolved.
It really depends on what kind of doctor you end up seeing; my physician constantly hammered it into my head that I should get off hormones because he believed the downsides outweighed the benefits. At the time, though, I didn't pay any attention to that "hippie" logic😁 but once I finally found myself in a position where I had to stop the pills, it occurred to me that his advice wasn't entirely without merit.😉
In general, the connection between changes in the pH levels and the structure of the vaginal mucosa and hormonal contraceptive therapy is something you can find documented in all the major medical literature.