WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for July, 2002: Re: post-mentrual vaginal discharge

Re: post-mentrual vaginal discharge

From: R. Daniel Braun, MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 31 Jul 2002 19:50:57 -0500 (CDT)

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In reply to: Sylvia: "post-mentrual vaginal discharge"

At Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Sylvia wrote: >
>Every month within about a day or two after the end of my period, I get
>a vaginal discharge that makes me itchy. It can last 8 or 9 days. At
>first, I was treating it as a yeast infection but the treatments never
>worked.

Probably because it wasn't a yeast infection.

>
>The discharge is white. It starts out kind of mucus-y. After a couple
>of days it gets more liquid, and then it starts to get thicker and can
>get almost pasty or a little cottage cheesey sometimes. It stays white
>throughout. It gets stuck in the folds of skin and is persistently
>itchy.
>
>I dealt with this problem a couple of years ago. At the time, I was
>seeing a naturopath who was able to get it under control with
>acupuncture, some drops I would put under my tongue (don't know what's
>in them), and some dietary changes.
>
>Then this winter and spring, I was under tremendous stress for way too
>long because of a family situation. It affected my health in a lot of
>ways, one of which was to make this discharge come back.
>
>I've stuck with the dietary changes that the naturopath suggested. The
>drops don't seem to be working (although they were nothing short of
>miraculous the first time around). I've been taking Acidophilus. It
>doesn't seem to be helping.

Never does.

Nothing seems to be helping. If anything, >I feel like all these stress-triggered things are worse now that the
>stress itself is actually over.

Maybe that is because it wasn't caused by the stress.

See your Gynecologist when you have the discharge and he/she can look at it under the microscope and make a diagnosis and treat it.

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R.Daniel Braun, MD  FACOG   FOG
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