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The original was posted on /r/twoxchromosomes by /u/Dependent-Ad-9127 on 2023-09-02 08:27:25.

So hear me out.

Since the end of June, I would get an insane rash around my vagina every time I had sex.

This is after undergoing an insane surgery a year and a half prior for a condition called acquired neuroproliferative vestibulodynia (too many nerve endings grew into my vestibule and literally needed to be cut out). I’m Canadian and needed to pay out of MF pocket for that surgery to an American specialist because it’s not available in Canada.

ANYWAY! So a year and a half after getting my pussy chopped up, now I’m getting an insane pussy rash after finally fucking pain-free??? Excuse me???

I was perplexed. I didn’t have any unusual discharge or odour or NOTHING. Just started with an INSANE rash after sex and it never really fully went away. It would get better but always come back full force after sex. Individual rash-like bumps, all around my vaginal opening, pretty much where sex “friction” occurs.

So I’m assuming I’m allergic to something with some contact dermatitis situation. But I go to a walk in clinic and get a swab anyway. Hell. (same partner for 3 years and we are monogamous). I get swabbed for herpes and yeast and BV and all the STIS.

Nobody calls me back. It’s been two weeks. I contact my family doctor and ask if the walk in sent the results (all while dealing with an itchy vagina all day every day)… she’s like yes they did! Everything was negative. Cool cool awesome. So I start ruling out any possible allergen. Soaps, hair products, laundry detergent, toilet paper, etc. etc. etc. nothing. Works. I’m like okay I need a second opinion. I call up my gyno. They’re like “how does January 8 sounds (2024!!!) (it is literally AUGUST 2023)……!!! I’m like get fucked I’ll be dead by then.

So here I am out of fucking options. I’m dealing with some insane rash, I can’t have sex, I’m itchy almost every day, and all of my tests are negative. What the actual FUCK is it???

In desperation I called up my USA specialist who did my surgery (and specializes in all pussy problems). I make an appt. I fly to New York. Pay a plane ticket. I walk into his office bracing to have some sort of insane issue.

He takes swabs of my vagina and looks under the microscope and sees a fuck ton of…… fucking yeast. The yeast that wasn’t detected the very first swab that’s been living in my vagina for the last two months.

$500 for the appt later and 4 doses of flucanazole prescribed I walk out of the office feeling very very sad about our healthcare system in Canada (like 6 months wait to see a gyno? Girl bye.).

My infection is not gone but it’s only been a day and a half since my first flucanazole pill. I’ll update that infection saga but I’d hope to god with everything I’ve been through that shit works…

Lesson learned is a negative swab doesn’t mean it’s negative. Always seek another opinion. And it it comes to it, the $500 might be worth it though it feels like absolute shit. But nothing feels better than peace of mind ✌🏻