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2nd Trimester
bluerevolution9
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Freak out ends well (long)
bluerevolution9
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So I have been having a lot of discharge lately, gross I know, I wrote a post about it. I thought it was normal. Then I started using panty liners to deal with it and I noticed it was green. (More gross I know.) So I wrote an email to my midwife asking what I should do. Considering that I also have a UTI she said I needed to go to a doc to get it checked (she can't by law do any swabs or cultures or things like that so I have to go to a dr for it). So I called the doctor's office today to see when I could come in and was told that I can't have an appointment for about a month. I told the receptionist that I am 19 weeks pregnant and think I have some sort of vaginal infection and absolutely cannot wait that long. (I live overseas, there is a holiday coming up which will result in the doctors being in vacation for nearly two weeks) and the guy was just like, then your only choice is to go to an ER. Now, not like hospital ER, but this woman's health clinic has an ER type place just for women's health issues. This is of course though freaked me out. It takes almost an hour by bus (I live in a city) to get to this clinic and the whole way there I am freaking out about what is wrong and what are they going to do. I HATE going to doctors, let alone strange ones, let along gyns. UGG. So I finally get there and just as I am waiting in line to check in with the receptionist my lovely gynecologist dr who treated me for years before I got pregnant walks by and asks me what I am doing there. I tell her whats up, and before I even finish she says "go to the pharmacy, get some yeast infection medicine, use it for 3 days. if it doesn't go away then call me. pregnant women get yeast infections all the time" and with a smile she walked away.
Yeast infection!! Thats all! And I was freaking out about what kind of scary thing this could be. Ugg. Hormones! So now that I have my trusty (but yucky messy cream) I am starting to feel some relief and am so glad this will be over soon. I feel so stupid that I got so crazy freaked out over basically nothing. I just had to vent it because its not exactly like DH wants to hear all about this or even would get it at all.
Thanks for listening. 
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I can't switch. The gyno I saw is also an OB. Here we don't have private health care, so you get who you get. I have been going to a midwife whom I love for everything pregnancy related and not an OB, but she can't do swabs for infections which is why she recommended that I go to see a doctor just to make sure what it was. But really, the person over the phone wasn't a nurse so I understand why they couldn't help.
I just feel so silly that really it was just such a common thing and I was freaking out over it!