CLOTRIMAZOLE vs FLUCYTOSINE

Stats at the bottom of this post. (This is a re-post that I also wrote on /r/DiagnoseMe, I didn't know this sub existed until just now.) There's something wrong with me and I don't know what it is. It's been getting steadily worse over the past seven years or so. I'm exhausted all the time, shaky al

I got these dime sized itchy spots that started when i was about 11 weeks pregnant so february 2025. My OBGYN said its just eczema and can happen during pregnancy. The spots were so itchy they prescribed me Triamcimalone 0.5% in July 2025 but it didnt seem to help. Fast forward to Jan 2026 I saw my

Hi! I initially posted this on r/DermatologyQuestions and a commenter suggested I put it here as well. I'm new to reddit and this sub so hopefully I get everything right. I'm Australian by the way. Bit of a long one but here goes: In March 2019 I (25F, 172cm, 70kg, caucasian) noticed a small ann

*UPDATE* ***Thank you all so much for your help. Learning that our current recommended treatment wasn’t cutting it because of responses received here, we called the peds derm and they fit her in SAME DAY. Baby has nummular eczema. Treatment is 2 wks, 2x/day clobetasol ointment, if it persists move t

have had issues getting it back (phimosis) since early teens and always just did my best to keep everything as clean as i could. after many years began to get pain and irritation to the point where i went to the ER and was told i had balanitis. Prescribed Clotrimazole which lessened but never made i

So a 40 something year old female presents to the ED as above for a few weeks of dyspnea, chest tightness, lower extremity edema and now intermittent fevers. She had a low grade glioma resected one month prior and completed a short steroid course. She’s on keppra as well as clotrimazole troches for

I \[23M\] have had 3 recurring sexual partners (at different times) over the last year. 2 of the 3 have ended up getting throat problems, involving sore throat+difficulty swallowing+difficulty talking, which resulted in them having to go to the hospital to get what turned out to be Peritonsillar Abs

Medicine is a huge field and no one can know it all, but we can know more than we knew yesterday if we learn a little every day. Personally, I was curious if there's any real difference from one topical antifungal to another. I usually recommend Terbinafine (Lamisil®), but I've seen other pharm

This forum really helped me and I thought I’d add my own experience in case it can help others. Below is an overview of my experience as well as things I learned from doctors / wish I knew way earlier. I got a UTI in November 2023 and a yeast infection after that (irritation, discharge, painful peei

Female, 26. As the title suggest. I have resistant yeast, been having it for 7 months now. (Did everything I could and now I’m just waiting for my doctor to tell me the stocks for flucytosine and amphotercin B cream have arrived and is ready for me to begin treatment). So this is not self diagnosi

I wanted to share how I treated my C. Glabrata as Reddit was extremely helpful throughout my whole experience. From the time I started having symptoms to almost complete resolution it has been 6 weeks. I started off with the typical fluconazole, I did 4 days of that and it didn’t work. Did Monist

First of all Thank ALL OF YOU that have shared your experiences, struggles, uncommon symptoms, and methods of treatment. I’ve read so far back into this sub, I think as old as 5 years to help figure out what’s going on. Because of this sub I was able to voice my concerns about Ureaplasma. I was able

**TLDR:** There’s hope. I had chronic treatment-resistant BV/yeast. It cleared up after a year and I’ve been symptom-free for a year. **LONG POST** A little over two years ago, I started dating a guy who pressured me to have sex without condoms, along with him generally being unhygienic with toys a

I’m typing this in the middle of the night because I’m itching and I can’t sleep. I have been dealing with resistant yeast for 7 months because regular azole treatments doesn’t work on me. I finally got my doctor to order flucytosine cream and amphotercin B cream specially compounded for me and now

Hey so I have had Candida Glabrata for 10 months been to a billion gynos and tried a range of things (did boric acid for 3 weeks followed by probiotics two times, steroids, tried Nystatin cream, changed my diet, stopped drinking) and NOTHING has worked. I am so itchy all the time and my confidence h

I feel like I’m literally losing my mind. I’m having an incredibly stressful battle with chronic UTI and vaginal dysbiosis. I was on a course of Azithromycin and few months ago to help with bad bacteria/CV and Amphotecerin & Flucytosine compounded pessaries. I waited for 3 months to get them fro