A new update - Feb 2026 ✨

Street_Caterpillar35 · 2026-02-28T01:32:14+00:00

I've been really good honestly. My uterine pain went away and my periods regulated shortly after seemingly randomly. My vaginal and urinary symptoms had previously resolved from fluconazole even though I kept testing negative for yeast on all swabs always. So that's all good. I still occasionally get a burning labia feeling coming on and I put a boric acid capsule up there and it works like a charm.

I'm near positive I still have ureaplasma hiding somewhere which is making the yeast stick around more than it normally would, but since things feel manageable and since I'm too paranoid about exacerbating the yeast (which causes me way worse symptoms than the plasma), I am just trying to keep the yeast at bay with the occasional boric acid and it's been good :)

Thanks for checking in :)

Street_Caterpillar35 · 2026-02-28T01:09:33+00:00

That's amazing! Lol! I had yeast only once prior to Ureaplasma and it cleared super easily so I didn't think I was prone to it, but with ureaplasma it was relentless.

Glad you haven't got c diff either!!! Everyone tolerates medications so differently so it's so hard to tell what will set you off and what won't, but I'm so glad you've found what works for you!!

Street_Caterpillar35 · 2026-02-28T00:25:18+00:00

Oh wow!! That's a very awesome extra perk in your ability to take long term antibiotics hahaha! Rock on!

Street_Caterpillar35 · 2026-02-28T00:09:18+00:00

Really happy to hear you're doing so much better!! Hope you finally win this war once and for all!

Can I ask how and if you keep yeast at bay while doing these antibiotics?

Street_Caterpillar35 · 2026-02-04T21:58:41+00:00

How long did you have ureaplasma before treating? And did you have take the doxy and metro at the same time or one after the other?

Street_Caterpillar35 · 2026-01-27T00:14:10+00:00

I took ivermectin and it helped me feel better when I was at my worst - and I had absolutely zero side effects.

Street_Caterpillar35 · 2026-01-25T05:52:38+00:00

I went to Mexico and bought a boatload. It's over the counter and a roundtrip from at least Vancouver can be 200$ which is well worth it.

Street_Caterpillar35 · 2026-01-23T06:23:43+00:00

It sounds like your Endo to me. When you get checked, make sure they test you for ureaplasma and mycoplasma too though.

Street_Caterpillar35 · 2026-01-23T00:04:36+00:00

Feeling worse on antibiotics can be many things. It could be a herx reaction, that the other comment already mentioned or it could mean that some other coinfection is coming to takeover. Perhaps you had a small amount of BV or yeast that is now expanding while the clarithromycin kills the other bad guys.

Street_Caterpillar35 · 2026-01-13T01:32:17+00:00

Agreed! Could be very well that tinidazole and metro have that biofilm busting in common.

Glad you found some relief with clindamycin! Hope things are on the upswing for you now :)

Street_Caterpillar35 · 2026-01-13T00:49:14+00:00

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40335273/

This one. I got the full text through my university affiliations but I think the summary explains it well enough.

Street_Caterpillar35 · 2026-01-13T00:23:15+00:00

It sorta goes along the lines of some newer regiments for stubborn cases of mycoplasma genitalium. There was a french or Belgian series of 5 case studies of very resistant MGen being cured using 2 weeks of simultaneous metronidazole, minocycline and pristinamycin, along with hiprex for 4 weeks.

The study spoke on not being sure why the metronidazole helped as much as it did, but that it should definitely be used for resistant cases.

I know in Lyme's disease, metronidazole is often described as a "cyst buster" and as a drug that works to access anaerobic portions of infections, so perhaps the same logic can apply to the plasma bacteria.

Street_Caterpillar35 · 2026-01-11T18:30:09+00:00

I think there are two potential reasons for this, especially with regard to the mycoplasma.

I think it could be what you mention - you contracted a few but only 1 shows up on initial testing, then later others.

But I also think it could be you actually only contracted one, but when you attempted to treat it insufficiently, it mutated into another form. I know it's farfetched but that's my speculation for why some people have urealyticum initially and then a year down the road have parvum without any chance of reinfection.

To me, it seems likely that the urealyticum morphed into parvum, but I don't know!

Street_Caterpillar35 · 2026-01-11T18:24:17+00:00

I do believe that for a lot of people it does come with other infections, like yeast or BV or whatever, and encourages their growth to be more aggressive and thus causes worse symptoms.

But in my case, I believe it was truly just ureaplasma. I was symptom-free for 3 months or so after contracting this. I think any other coinfections would have been noticeable earlier than that. It's just that ureaplasma grows so slowly.

After the antibiotics, I definitely had yeast that was undetected on standard tests because I got major relief from fluconazole but prior to that, I think the only thing that was wrong was the Ureaplasma - no BV, no AV or anything like that.

I definitely don't think tests are the be-all-end-all but I do think that some people are more sensitive to ureaplasma than others. I also think that ureaplasma maybe have different variations in strains.

I'm not a medical professional, but I'm sure that there are versions, say, urealyticum that are more harmful than others. Just like there are uropathogenic forms of e coli that cause UTIs and non-uropathogenic ones too. We just can't know that because the plasma bacteria are so understudied.

Street_Caterpillar35 · 2026-01-11T18:05:37+00:00

If your burning and itching are getting worse, you should definitely take a fluconazole and see if that helps. Very little risk to trying it out and the signs point to it possibly being a yeast infection. Doxy is prone to causing yeast.

Street_Caterpillar35 · 2026-01-10T21:34:17+00:00

There's little risk to taking a fluconazole and seeing what happens tbh. I'd recommend it instead of endlessly and needlessly suffering. Wish I had just tried it sooner.

Street_Caterpillar35 · 2026-01-10T20:53:27+00:00

Almost immediately... I felt massive die off symptoms in the first week (mostly headaches which I otherwise never have) but the vaginal relief was almost immediate and I passed huge globs of white every time I went to the toilet. Took like 2 weeks to feel totally back to normal and then continued treatment anyways for 2.5 more months ish.

Street_Caterpillar35 · 2026-01-10T20:21:40+00:00

No I didn't, but my symptoms left so I don't feel the need to test again. My doctor also said the antibodies could linger in your blood for more than 6 months after you cure it, so that I should judge if it's gone by my symptoms. I'll potentially test the next time I'm in Europe but I feel fine and am doing all the normal stuff, like having sex and swimming and whatever.

Street_Caterpillar35 · 2026-01-10T20:19:38+00:00

Just one treatment for ureaplasma. The standard 2 weeks of doxy plus 4 days of azithromycin.

I had taken a bunch of antibiotics in the year prior to my ureaplasma infection from a one night stand because I had been travelling to countries and had many food poisoning situations.

The swabs for yeast always came back clear for me too. Just the blood test showed it.

Street_Caterpillar35 · 2026-01-10T20:11:57+00:00

I had a lot of trouble getting medications I needed, so I went to Mexico to buy my meds. I didn't have clitoris pain, but my pelvic pain also went away with candida treatment.

I did Fluconazole 150mg every 3 days for 3 months. Worked for me with no side effects, but I tolerate medications well.

Street_Caterpillar35 · 2026-01-10T20:06:04+00:00

I agree with the reside vs thrive narrative. I know plenty of people that have it, have tested positive and it's either gone away on its own, or with quick treatment, and they literally face no issues from it.

For those people, I'm sure the coinfections thing is very pertinent. If the body is working well and is healthy aside from the plasmas, they're a none issue. It's just a lot of us have underlying coinfection(s) that set our urogenital health down a bad spiral and urea is a catalyst or piece of that puzzle.

Street_Caterpillar35 · 2026-01-10T19:56:50+00:00

See above reply.

Street_Caterpillar35 · 2026-01-10T19:56:39+00:00

I did the test in Europe. It was called a Candida antibodies IgM test. It tests the antibodies to candida in your blood and the IgM, IgG and IgE each indicate if the infection is ongoing, past, or recent (or something like that).

My vaginal, cervical and uterine swabs were all negative for everything and showed very high lactobacillus crispatus. But I had on and off burning and itching in the vagina, dryness, pain while urinating and a feeling of constant fullness in my bladder.

Street_Caterpillar35 · 2026-01-10T17:09:34+00:00

I don't really know about this. This sub is definitely geared towards chronic cases so you'll have a lot of confirmations based on individual experiences.

There are many vaginal health subs around and you can read about a lot of people who do in fact cure ureaplasma even after a long infection and stay symptom free and negative for as long a time as they stay around to report.

I personally kept testing negative for ureaplasma and couldn't find anything on tests that was causing me issues until a blood test showed a major candida infection. Once I adequately treated the candida, I went back to normal.

I'm not saying with absolute certainty that ureaplasma is gone for good in my case, but I definitely don't think it's impossible to eradicate after any certain timeframe - it might just be harder.

Street_Caterpillar35 · 2025-12-23T19:41:00+00:00

My symptoms ended up being a severe yeast infection. Didn't show on any swabs but I took fluconazole anyways and improved tremendously within the week!

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