Trichomoniasis

Kept getting told it was thrush for months

Months of symptoms, three rounds of thrush treatment that did nothing, and it turned out to be trichomoniasis. I’m relieved to have an answer and quietly furious about how long it took.

Is this common? I had genuinely never heard of it before the diagnosis.

quietkettle 3 months ago

NoteMember experience, not medical advice. Symptoms overlap between infections and only a test can tell them apart.

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almostfine 3 months ago

Very common, both the delay and the not having heard of it. It gets mistaken for thrush or bacterial vaginosis constantly because the symptoms overlap, and it isn’t always included in a standard screen unless it’s specifically looked for.

You’re not unusual and you weren’t being ignored. It’s a genuinely easy one to miss.

half_light 3 months ago

Same path, four months. The thing that finally worked was saying plainly that repeated thrush treatment hadn’t changed anything and asking what else it could be. That sentence got a different test ordered.

night_bus 3 months ago

Part of the delay is which test gets used. Looking at a sample under a microscope is quick and cheap but misses a lot of cases, whereas the molecular tests are considerably more sensitive.

So months of negatives can mean it genuinely was not there, or that it was never looked for with a test capable of finding it. Worth asking which one was run on your samples, and worth saying plainly if repeated treatment for something else has not changed anything.

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