antipsychotics, antifungals & women w/mystery infections down there

[glow=pink,2,300]this is a slightly embarassing topic, but this may help some women who are taking antipsychotics or tapering or are off of them and wondering why they still have SX's related to the storage of the metabolites in the lipid cells, also the effect of antifungals on us when taking, tapering or afer coming off of any psychoactive drugs especially benzos but also AD's and AP's, and also a very common but hush hush subject among the medical community problem with cause and solution...something that has troubled me for many years with recurrent UTI's and other infections. i hope my trials will serve to save someone else from having to go through the same suffering i went through!

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does anyone know the effects of the AZOLE class of antifungal and antibacterials on our hormones and also on us during benzo use?

 

i took clotrimazole cream 2% for 7 days intravaginally for a yeast infection which turned out not to be yeast and made me feel sicker,

then the dr gave me metronidazole "Flagyl" thinking it was a Bacterial Vagnosis...it was not, test came back negative and it made me feel worse.

i even told the dr i wasn't comfortable using more azoles since the first one but that's what i got anways.

then she calls me to say the test was negative for BV and she assumed it was yeast again, and called in Fluconazole "Diflucan" to which i again protested but that's what i got and took it anyways.

it didn't work, made me feel worse.

 

my symptoms since the beginning of this infection have been as if i were tapering my clonazepam but i haven't changed it at all! crazy sweating under pits and in groin area when strong emotions, also irritable, headaches, stomach aches and back/kidney belt area aches and nausea. insomnia, nightmares. crying spells.

 

and the damn infection down there that is unresponsive to antifungals and antibacterials/antibiotics so far...i suspect it is cytolytic vaginosis, the overgrowt of a good bacteria bacillus which maybe was made worse by using plain yogurt and probiotics when they said it was probably a yeast infection.

 

i go in for a wet mount/wet smear on weds to see what the hell is really going on down there. the baking soda douchesand suppositories help the itching go away. but it comes back

 

well from now on i am never taking antifungals again...nor antibiotics unless it's life threatening. my go around is taking 180 mg of Allicin Max garlicin concentrate capsule 2-3x a day and eating tons of minced garlic and also onions and peppers and basically low-carb diet, no more dairy or lactose and fructose and all those "ose" ending sugars that just convert into glucose in my blood and feed all fungal/yeast/molds in my body.

 

also i just found out, well i learned it a couple years ago while doing keto but i forgot about it, that seroquel  and its metabolites are stored in lipids/fat cells in my body, and are also released back into my bloodstream when i exercise and burn the fat cells/burst the fat cells walls...so yay and nay, but i'll take the benefits of exercise and low carb eating over the negatives of the re-releasing of the metabolites since it's a temporary situation. now i understand why sometimes we feel worse in WD when exercising... but according to what i learned, after the drug and the metabolites from it are gone from the body, when i finish the seroquel taper, it takes around 6month to a year or longer to quit having the nasty effects. so i'm ready.

 

on a side note...my itchy down there situation is almost completely resolved now...the answer  or cure it seems was to quit using anything but my hands to gently wash the inner/outer labia and to use very gentle baby shampoo with no extra chemicals AND to not douche at all...it turns out we have some kind of weird bacteria in our shower where my douche equipment hangs and also my bath gloves and soaps i was using to clean with....it is commonly called "pink mold" but is actually a bacteria found in hospitals and nursing homes etc and even found inside supposedly sterile iv fluids bags! it is found inside the soap dispensers and growing on soaps and fatty oils or where people bathe and wash with soaps...sinks and faucets and especially on nurses with false nails,no matter how short. there's documents by the NIH https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3592283/  and other documenting the chronic antibiotic resistant strain of this bacteria in hospitals worldwide. it is opportunistic and tends to favor catheters, causing UTI's most commonly and also upper respiratory and infections at the point where IV's are inserted. 

 

so this "pink mold" i had cleaned best i could in our shower where there is a leak behind the faucet about a 2-3 weeks before i got the mystery infection down there. didn't think about it untilafter all the labwork came back negative. after i found what the stuff was by googling,  it all made sense. forst of all i used bath gloves wich i left hanging to dry after each shower inside the shower door. i left all of our soaps and washes and shampoo bottles in there too. and the douche bag and tubing hung in there from the shower pipe so water constantly trickled down into it and through the tubing. we had the "pink mold" bacteria on everything in there and never knew. so ev erytime i'd douche, i would be reintroducing that bacteria straight to my most vulnerable areas. everytime i used my bath gloves i was essentially scrubbing away any protective body oils that made it easier for the bacteria to enter my skin there, hence the horrible itching but no yeasty discharge and negative labwork. they weren't looking for that pink mold bacteria ..here lemme look it up... Serratia marcescens ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serratia_marcescens

 

On 26 and 27 September 1950, the U.S. Navy conducted a secret experiment named "Operation Sea-Spray" in which balloons filled with S. marcescens were released and burst over urban areas of the San Francisco Bay Area in California. Although the Navy later claimed the bacteria were harmless, beginning on September 29, 11 patients at a local hospital developed very rare, serious urinary tract infections. One of the afflicted patients, Edward J. Nevin, died. [27] Cases of pneumonia in San Francisco also increased after S. marcescens was released.[28][29]

 

Possible role in medieval miracles

 

"Bloody bread": S. marcescens growing on bread

Because of its red pigmentation, caused by expression of the pigment prodigiosin,[22] and its ability to grow on bread, S. marcescens has been evoked as a naturalistic explanation of medieval accounts of the "miraculous" appearance of blood on the Corporal of Bolsena.[22] This followed celebration of a mass at Bolsena in 1263, led by a Bohemian priest who had doubts concerning transubstantiation, or the turning of bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ during the mass. During the mass, the Eucharist appeared to bleed and each time the priest wiped away the blood, more would appear.[22] This event is celebrated in a fresco in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican City, painted by Raphael.[23]

 

Pathogenicity

 

The antibiogram of S. marcescens on Mueller-Hinton agar

In humans, S. marcescens can cause an opportunistic infection in several sites,[14] including the urinary tract, respiratory tract, wounds,[7] and the eye, where it may cause conjunctivitis, keratitis, endophthalmitis, and tear duct infections.[15] It is also a rare cause of endocarditis and osteomyelitis (particularly in people who use intravenous drugs recreationally), pneumonia, and meningitis.[6][7] Most S. marcescens strains are resistant to several antibiotics because of the presence of R-factors, which are a type of plasmid that carry one or more genes that encode resistance; all are considered intrinsically resistant to ampicillin, macrolides, and first-generation cephalosporins (such as cephalexin).[6]

 

i have had so many UTI's in the past few years (using the same douche equipment also) and cephalexin cephalosporins and amoxicillin and others did not stop them. now i know why!  and the cytolytic vaginosis, with the weird symptom of shedding pieces of vaginal skin lining, fits this so perfectly...the lysis of cells of my vaginal lining isbasically the bursting of the cell walls due to the intake of too much "ose" fructose lactose sucrose etc basically all carbs breaking down into glucose in my blood, giving rise to the CV not Bacterial Vaginosis, and the recurrent UTI's. so it all boils down to me eating too many carbs in breads pastas flours and starchy veggies like potatoes and of course blatant sugars like sweets and fruit juices and even too many fruits and everything in my diet i love the taste of  haha..plus the added insult to injury of the re-exposure t o the pink mold bacteria in my shower and douche equipment everytime i bathed and it equals the mystery infection i had until i went low carb and quit douching and using soap down there. going low carb (under 100 and preferably under 50carbs a day) starves the cells of glucose and forces the body to burn fat as energy, helping release toxins and also removing the storage souce for those metabolites so they just get flushed out with the urine instead of staying stuck in us. it's tricky because i don't eat meat except for fish, but it's doable if i just stick to the plan and quit giving in to my sweet tooth.

 

this has been frustrating, but at least now i know the cause, the name of the condition, the actual bacteria involved and how to prevent it.

not one single doctor helped me.

 

all praise to Google! haha

i am my own doctor now.

 

well i knew i shouldn't be eating all that crap and that i was ignoring the advice of letting my vagina cleanse itself naturally.  but you know, i was raised to think my vagina was dirty and should have no smell at all, so i over washed and became very self conscious about it to the point of scrubbing it like it was a dirty pan in the sink! i was kind of abusing myself without really realizing it.

 

i also blame all the social conditioning we get as little girls on up thru post menopause from advertising selling products to mask our natural smell and appearance. products to deodorize and scent us as if we should smell like the hotels on the beach or a linen closet or fabric softener or a field of wildflowers! products to remove all our protective hair to make us look like prepubescent girls or porn stars to please the men in our lives. products to make us smell "fresh"...when was the last time you smelled a jar of pickles and thought it smelled "fresh"? sour yes, not "fresh" like a clean vagina! lol vinegar is not "fresh" smelling

 

we got a lotta reconditioning to do so our little girls don't grow up repeating the same mistakes we made. hell in the 1940'3 and 1950's women used LYSOL to douche with!!!

 

(for more:)

https://www.buzzfeed.com/copyranter/one-of-the-biggest-deceptions-in-advertising-history

https://www.dailyedge.ie/worst-feminine-hygiene-adverts-954732-Jun2013/

 

sorry for the rant...just happy to have solved the mystery, no thanks to any doctors who happily took my copays and gave  me no answers in exchange. i hope this gives somebody some answers who's been suffering with no help like i was!

I have a similar situation with prostatitis, no antibiotics help. What do you recommend? Garlic in additives? Maybe something else?