I Hate Thrush
Anybody out there ever experienced the joys of having thrush? It’s like a yeast infection, only in your mouth. It’s pretty icky, and hella painful. Unfortunately, I’m dealing with it right now.
I woke up a couple of days ago with a sore throat, headache, and a ton of phlegm. I figured it was from spending too much time at my in-laws’ house the day before, because they all smoke like freight trains and I’m allergic to cigarette smoke. So I lay around most of the day, telling myself that I was going to put my foot down next time Hubby wanted me to go over there with him.
Then yesterday morning, I woke up with an even worse sore throat, and what felt like blisters on the roof of my mouth. Hubby took one look with a flashlight, and I could tell by his expression that it wasn’t pretty. He said I definitely needed to see the doctor, and that my throat was covered with blisters.
When I got up and tried to eat, I found that swallowing was extremely difficult. I tried taking some medicine – sinus pills, a couple different types of pain meds, even some all natural vitamins – but I could barely swallow them either, and one of the pills got lodged in my throat and wouldn’t budge for what seemed like an eternity. As soon as the office opened, I made an appointment.
The doctor first did a strep test, which came back negative. She then did a yeast culture, which would take 2-3 days to come back, and went ahead and gave me meds for both strep and thrush. She told me to start the thrush medicines first, and I did. Within hours, I saw an improvement. Hallelujah!
I’m thinking about just leaving the antibiotics be and continuing with the thrush treatment. After all, antibiotics can promote yeast growth, and that is what causes thrush. I believe that stress was what caused the whole mess in the first place, especially after reading the thrush article linked above. But whatever it was, I’ll be glad when it’s all an unpleasant memory.
