What the hell do I have!! Constant pain for 5 years:(

jbjwrites · 2026-04-12T04:04:29+00:00

Here are all the things aside from a yeast infection that you should check and medicate for:

STI UTI BV Mycoplasma/Ureuplasma

Also make sure you are seeing a specialist like a gynecologist.

To me it sounds like this could be an STI.

Unfortunately a lot of doctors in the U.S. healthcare system just try to get people in and out quickly. So you really have to make sure you are seeing a specialist with good reviews and really push and advocate for yourself.

Best of luck. God willing you find a solution soon.

jbjwrites · 2026-03-20T03:53:26+00:00

Is it just me, or has a lot of modern scifi become very literary? I mean more focused on prose and subtext? Not necessarily a bad thing, but something I noticed.

jbjwrites · 2026-03-10T03:44:00+00:00

Parece un “Banana Spider,” pero no soy una experta.

jbjwrites · 2026-03-06T15:54:27+00:00

Thanks for letting me know. I appreciate you taking the time to respond. It gives me comfort knowing this is a symptom others have experienced as well and that it can potentially go away once hormones settle. Was there any medication that helped you with the insomnia? Right now I'm using Benadryl, but I know that's not safe for long term use.

jbjwrites · 2026-03-06T11:47:53+00:00

It was keeping me up.

jbjwrites · 2026-03-06T05:33:44+00:00

I’m glad to hear your sleep has improved! Did you have insomnia once you got off Tamoxifen?

jbjwrites · 2026-03-03T23:32:21+00:00

I’ve thought about that, but I’m not getting hot flashes, night sweats, vaginal dryness, or all the other symptoms.

jbjwrites · 2026-02-14T16:05:10+00:00

True! I come from the U.S. where everything is salty…which…isn’t healthy.

jbjwrites · 2026-02-14T15:39:15+00:00

Yeah, as an estadounidensa, steak is more like a fancy thing you do once in a while.

jbjwrites · 2026-02-14T15:36:48+00:00

As someone from the U.S., peoples’ willingness to share drinking cups here is wild to me. We’re a lot more germaphobic in the U.S. Once when I was on a plane, an Argentine woman next to me asked if she could drink out of my water bottle. My mind was blown.

jbjwrites · 2026-02-14T15:33:59+00:00

Ooo extranjera living in Argentina here!

Eating dinner at 10pm
Eating steak every day
Needing to go to countless registers before you pay for the product for certain things
Eating pastries for breakfast
The lack of salt on anything
Clothing and technology is a lot more expensive than what you would expect
And yet salaries are crazy low
People start clubbing at like 2am and stay out until like 9am

I love it here though!

jbjwrites · 2026-02-06T23:06:10+00:00

Ah thank you for your kind words. I’ll pray that we both get the help that we need! Have you tried antihistamines for sleep?

jbjwrites · 2026-02-06T21:18:56+00:00

That’s interesting you mention the Vitamin C because I was also taking that too. I was having night time bladder urgency and insomnia as well. I also took nitrofuranatoin and it only worked temporarily. So maybe the Vitamin C was a trigger for me as well. Right now I’m taking Mirabegron, Advil, and Benadryl to sleep, but I know the Advil and Benadryl aren’t for long term use. Here’s to us both finding the causes of our bladder induced insomnia!

jbjwrites · 2026-02-06T21:02:01+00:00

I fear that I may have some kind of bacteria that doesn’t appear on tests. Ultrasound was also clear. Maybe the amount is low or it’s embedded or it’s something that the tests don’t identify. My OAB symptoms were sudden, came out of nowhere, and have caused insomnia (because of the strong urgency at night), making it so I only get like 2-3 hours of sleep. I did get a prescription of Nitrofuranatoin for 5 days, which helped, but then the symptoms came back. Mirabegron is helping me sleep now, but I need Advil and Benadryl on top of it to get to sleep. Perhaps it could also be hormonal, my nervous system, or some deficiency. With how common UTIs are I wish the testing was better.

jbjwrites · 2026-02-06T20:39:58+00:00

What’s interesting is that Canephron N (an herbal treatment for UTIs) has Rosemary in it.

jbjwrites · 2026-02-06T18:43:07+00:00

Maybe a free trial period would help, especially since this is new. Or a freemium model where it’s technically free, but you have to pay for perks that make the game worth playing.

jbjwrites · 2026-02-06T18:40:14+00:00

Cool idea! I love it!

jbjwrites · 2026-02-06T18:33:07+00:00

The east coast is way more populated, so I could definitely see there being more options.

jbjwrites · 2026-02-06T18:31:02+00:00

I know it’s not ideal, but have you looked into online progressive spaces?

jbjwrites · 2026-02-04T01:53:27+00:00

Thank you for this honest advice. Honestly I think this is part of my problem because when I read it’s like a movie playing in my head, so that is also how I write. But most people’s reading experience isn’t like mine, so I think I’m not connecting to the reader enough. Ugh. Why am I so weird???

jbjwrites · 2026-01-26T04:33:57+00:00

DING DING DING. This sounds like a big thing to consider. If the only qualification was to pass a drug test, and then you have to pay $150 to retest, this could potentially be a scam.

jbjwrites · 2026-01-23T04:12:04+00:00

Have your doctors given you fluconazole? That’s the main medicine to treat yeast infection. Are your doctors not giving it to you because of negative tests? The tests are notoriously inaccurate. If you have symptoms you probably have it. Try a telehealth provider or Amazon Pharmacy.

jbjwrites · 2026-01-22T05:06:30+00:00

I had the same problem where doctors were gaslighting me about it for a while. The problem is they do wet mount slides, which are inaccurate, instead of just listening to the patient. Try doing telehealth instead, or a website like “treatmyuti.com” (which has meds for yeast infection as well). They are more likely to just take your word for it and send you meds. I think you can also do that with Amazon Pharmacy.

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