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Quite a few other meddlesome vaginal issues can cause similar symptoms as yeast infections but necessitate wildly different treatments. Here, ob/gyns walk you through the most common ones.
The crazy and frustrating thing is many of the doctors I saw did uncover symptoms of endometriosis with their exams and tests, they just didn't see their findings through to the end: to the cause of the symptoms and an accurate diagnosis.
Still, oral fluconazole isn't commonly prescribed during pregnancy.
