Thrush update

[ailbhe]

The pain got so bad last night I was pinching myself to try to overpower it. this was about as effective as you'd expect, but didn't leave muhc in the way of bruising, so that's ok. The Health Visitor called to say she'd given the doctor the information, and Rob called the doctor back to see what we could do - and he'd left for the day. He'd left no message and no prescription. So Rob got the duty doctor to call me back and I spoke to him on the phone a few times - he had to keep going away and looking things up - and he refused to prescribe Fluconazale or whatever it's called.

He also said "Well, how do we know it's thrush?" I said "It's impossible to know unless you take tissue samples or I express some milk and leave it with you for testing, which you don't have the facilities to do and there's a chance it could be in the ducts and not in the milk in taceable amounts anyway." He said he'd never heard a milk sample suggested before. No kidding! How many women with thrush are going to volunteer to use a breastpump when it's not absolutely essential to feed their child?

So I have a prescription for Nystatin and the local pharmacy can't fill it. Rob has bought three OTC doses of Fluconazale and I'm going to take one a day until Monday, and keep using the cream designed for vaginal thrush, and keep taking the regular painkillers.

I still have no treatment for Linnea's system, so we have to hope very much there's no cross-infection going on. The doctor didn't seem to think that was possible, which is INSANE.

If I'm not better in a week, I'm going to see a friend's doctor who isn't as crazy loop the loop as all mine. And I think I need to write some letters about the lack of breastfeeding support available in my area; just because Linnea is 18 months old, my thrush is a trivial issue, since it would go away much more easily if I stopped feeding her and could be prescribed the licensed drugs without her to cross-infect me.

The trouble is the licensing. They can only prescribe it if they feel totally sure they are doing the right thing, and they don't feel sure. If it was licensed, they'd prescribe it. They both admitted it was highly effective.

(Happy birthday, Radegund. Your card is still waiting to be posted. It's quite a prettty card - I might put some fake snow on it and send it at the end of the month...!)

Comments

[shimgray.livejournal.com]

Pharmacies seem really bad at being able to prescribe Nystatin; the two times I had it I had to shop around to find somewhere with it in stock. I don't know if this is just coincidence or if it's in short supply.

[zinecure.livejournal.com]

Ick! I am so sorry you are having to deal with doctors that aren't helpful. I have a ton of nystatin here at my house. Some stuff for Tyler to take orally (it didn't agree with him so I stopped giving it to him, plus I swear to God he did not have thrush...IT WAS BABY POWDER THAT WAS WET!!!!) And the pediatrician wrote a perscription for a topical nystatin for me which I KNEW I didn't have thrush either (over reactive med student at peds office). Is it okay to mail that sort of stuff? You can have it if you want it;)

[radegund.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's infuriating!

The recalcitrance of your local medics, I mean. Not the fact that you haven't posted my card yet :-)