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Guppy007
Guppy007

Someone recommend Vagifem, a pessary for vaginal dryness to me...So my question is how do you know you have vaginal internal dryness. I am prone to thrush and recently have wondered if it is coming back, or whether its something else, namely lichen sclerosus, my symptoms have been a kind of hot internal irritation every now and then, but not enough to bother me too much, so I wanted to ask what symptoms, if any, people experience, because I dont know whether this is normal or not or whether its the onset of thrush...I should mention that I have this condition quite mild, and oral lichen planus more severe...any help would be great please. I dont want to start buying diflucan and using that if I dont need it.

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  • Morrell1951
    Morrell1951 Guppy007

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    Guppy, I see this discussion 13 days later and I'm wondering what happened. You thought you might have thrush and (I imagine because these days we can buy antifungal yeast treatments like Diflucan over the counter) you didn't want to treat it if there was something worse going on. You're only supposed to self-treat with anti-yeast meds if you're absolutely sure that's what you have. So my short answer is you should see your doctor. Then you could mention that you have lichen planus, so he/she couls keep that in mind.
    • Guppy007
      Guppy007 Morrell1951

      Posted

      Hi Morrell, I am a lot better, see my post to Marey above..thanks for your interest..best regards.
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