Breaking the Cycle: Recurrent Yeast Infection Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis. Writers describe the return of it — the itch, the burning, the sleep lost, the sex avoided, and the shame that keeps people buying treatment over a counter rather than asking for help. There is the wrong box and then the right swab: the years treated presumptively, the bacterial vaginosis and lichen sclerosus and vulvodynia that were actually the problem, and the culture that finally named a non-albicans strain immune to everything tried so far. Writers describe what held: induction and maintenance fluconazole regimens, boric acid pessaries, treating a partner or not, and blood-sugar reckonings that turned out to be the root cause. Later chapters cover pregnancy and immunosuppression, clinicians' perspectives on why this is so often mismanaged, and the cases that never fully cleared.

Who it's for

For anyone on their fourth infection this year, people who suspect they have been treated for the wrong thing, and readers who want to know which tests to insist on.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 283 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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