I keep getting thrush symptoms but the swabs always come up negative?

Question by sarah: I keep getting thrush symptoms but the swabs always come up negative?
I am always getting the symptoms of thrush eg. itchiness and quite smelly but everytime i go to the doctors they swab me and it always comes up normal, i have been to see the gynocologyst who was useless and sent me away with some showergel to try which hasn’t helped. Any ideas what it could be?

Best answer:

Answer by kendra23uk
Hi there I have the same thing..from research and hearing about other girls probs I think It may be Bacterial Vaginosis.
Alot of girls go to their GP with thrush and it “gets treated” but really it doesn’t…I have my sympoms for a year and only getting myself sorted now cos I moved docs.
I would say go back to your gp or see another one if you can at your Gp’s Practice and say you have done some research and your symptoms are NOT going away and therefore your NOT going to go away and you want to be checked for BV.
You shouldn’t have to put up with that.
Hope that helps!

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