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Philly
"My symptoms began in 2022 when I had thrush that didn't respond to clotrimazole pessaries. Instead of lasting 2 weeks, the infection lasted 2 months, most likely as it was drug-resistant, having had 10 infections previously. When the infection had gone away by November, a burning sensation stayed in my vestibule and disappeared after 6 months. However, by October 2023 it came back again with another yeast infection and since then, it's never gone."
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Alexandra Black
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"My symptoms began in 2008 when I had thrush."
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Harriet
"I had an episode of thrush, went to the GP got that sorted and it was fine. But sex was tricky afterwards... And then a few months later... I had thrush again and I remember it never got better after that. That feeling of burning and stinging and pain never got better after that.
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Laura
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"I got a yeast infection, I had not had one for 20 years or so and it was really bad and I went to my Doctor and they gave me a cream and that didn't work... then Diflucan... I went to another Doctor and they found no yeast... it'd been 2 months since the original yeast, I ran around from Doctor to Doctor and then I looked up vulva burning and found vulvodynia then I broke down, crazy crying."
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Celine M
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I have suffered from vulvodynia since summer 2012. It all started with a prolonged yeast infection that would come back over and over again.
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Breanne
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'"I had been recovering from a yeast infection and had sex with my fiancée, who was in town visiting me. My genital area started to burn soon after we started having sex." Since then, Breanne has been diagnosed with vestibulodynia.'
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Quoted from When Sex Hurts, Goldstein et al 2011
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