Question

Dear Doctor, I hope you can help as Candida is ruining my life. First of all I would like to apologize for my English, I am Italian, so it won’t be perfect! Before to get to the point I would like to write you my history, I hope it can help ito make a diagnosis. I am an healthy, professional, 29 years old female. I got y phd 2 years ago and now I work in London as a banker. The only medical problem (before Candida) is that for all my life I had suffered by frequent tonsillitis (they last just 3 to 4 days but the fever go up to 40*). I get tonsillitis even when I am particular under stress. I say this because I got a lot of antibiotics during my all life time. I met my partner 7 month ago, last June we had sex for the first time. I started the pill for the first time in my life in mid July ( the doctor gave me Cerazzette desogestrel 75 micrograms) but because of the very heavy weight gain I had to stop it after 10 days. At the end of July I discovered to be pregnant, and for the stress I get a very strong tonsillitis again. Luckily it last 2/3 days and I treat it with a week of antibiotics. End of July/early August during a normal visit, the gynecologist confirmed the early pregnancy and said that I had Candida Vaginitis (my partner got it too). The gynecologist could see I had candida but as for now at the first microscopy examination the test was negative, it result positive by growing the Candida on colture. I think it was the first time for me, but because I do not get any symptoms (rather then a normal white discharge) I can’t be sure if I had it before. Anyway, because of the termination ( I took the abortion pill/vaginal tables) I couldn’t treat the Candida for more than a month. Additionally because of the tonsillitis first and termination after in august I took 2 weeks antibiotics and I started to treat the Candida just at the very end of the months (I went to another gynecologist that gave me an oral treatment for 2 days and vaginal ovules for 1 week). Candida disappear and the strange thing is that my partner, even if we made love in august while I was still infected didn’t not get it (he treat it in July with a local cream for one week only and got the same treatment as me in the beginning of September even if he didn’t have any symptoms). 11 of September I started again the pill. This time the doctor gave me Lybella (apparently a very light new pill, similar to Yasmin) Now, because my partner got the same symptoms he had in July I went to the gynecologist again, following up the details: 2)Saturday 24th /10: a) Gynecology visit - candida was negative on first microscopy examination , but positive result by growing the example on culture (got the test result on Thursday the 30th) b) I get 150 mg of FLUCONAZOLE 3) SUNDAY 25th /10 : I get Clotrimazole Pessary 500mg 4) Wednesday 24th: start the proboscis, vitamins and propolis cycle (to end in 6 weeks) 5) Thursday 29th/10 a) Candida came back b) Gynecology visit. Again, negative on first microscopy examination, but positive result by growing the Candida on colture (I did the test on the 24). c) I get 2 capsules of SPORANOX 100 mg (at 20:30) d) I start the cream (to end in 7 days) 6) Friday 30th/10: I get another 2 capsules of SPORANOX(itraconazole) 100 mg (at 08:00) Candida seems to improve but doesn’t disappear ( still have a bit of white discharge) 7) Monday 1st/11: I got my period, so can’t see if I have Candida or not. I would like to underlain that my partner had an HVI test and he is negative, as well as I have no allergies problem, no Diabetes or any other illness. My blood result (I did it 2 weeks ago) where perfect. Last Friday I finished my second month of the pill… I am starting to get really worried and I would really appreciate if you could kindly give me your opinion.