FLUCYTOSINE vs METRONIDAZOLE

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

I graduated this year and will begin my Internship this year's end or next year. I am working as a retail Pharmacist for the mean time just to get familiar with patients and how things are practically, while i scout for Internship centers which isn't easy as there are not enough. After reading posts

I'll start. Metronidazole and some formulations of ciclosporin as they sometimes contain ethanol as part of manufacturing process.

I’ll start. “Hairy” tongue with metronidazole

For me, I like to let patients know some metronidazole tastes absolutely disgusting and to limit the amount of contact it has with your tongue. Edit: sorry for the typo in the header, I can't fix it.

The IDSA/SHEA guidelines for C. diff infection is finally updated. Metronidazole is no longer recommend for mild cases: https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/cix1085/4855916#.WoUYufzsWpk.twitter ...whaaaaaat?!

YHey guys its come to my attention that metronidazoles interaction with alcohol is still a controversial topic, depsite recent literature discrediting old counseling points. How do you guys feel about this? The CDC has a statement out saying its okay to take alcohol while on metronidazole and even d

idk how to title this properly, but this has been eatinggggg at me and the folks i work with are like really old and wouldn’t understand this dumb mental association. gen z rise and hear me <3 when u see a drug name does it ever replay in your head something that sounds the same? that dont make

Our Antimucrobial teacher was discussing Metronidazole and how it's good for C. Diff colitis. Then it occurs to him that the CDC recommends metronidazole for CDC Gave himself a chuckle