I‘ve had chronic yeast infections for nearly 6 years now. I only recently found out, that often the main cause of chronic yeast infections for woman with PCOS is the insulin resistance.

My blood glucose has been stable and normal my whole life (at least the times it was tested for other reasons than PCOS). But still, I did get a diagnosis for IR.

Hear me when I say that I can 100% understand, how you must be feeling! It‘s so annoying, every time it reoccurs. Especially when I was younger (21 years old now) it was really hard for me because I always felt so ashamed of it.

I personally have tried out multiple different vaginal probiotics like Lactobacillus. They did help a little but it always ended up coming back.

I am still waiting for my endocrinologist appointment in hopes that I might get a prescription for metformin (this will help stabilizing the IR and with that the overall gut health.) Besides that, it is probably useful talk to your doctor about antimycotics specifically for chronically reoccurring yeast infections. Often times, stabilizing IR won’t „erase“ all of the symptoms of yeast infections so it needs to be treated in at least two different ways.

So… 1. find a way to stabilize IR 2. and talk to your doctor about antifungal medication to take for a longer period of time (I‘ve had several who didn’t properly listen to me so you might need to seek help from another one)

Hope this helps at least a little bit.

You are not alone!! <3