# infection

**URL:** <https://forum.mssociety.org.uk/t/infection/38232>\
**Category:** Everyday living\
**Created:** [7 January 2015 10:46 UTC](https://forum.mssociety.org.uk/t/infection/38232 "2015-01-07T10:46:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Inactive\_User](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3e96dc/32.png) [@Inactive\_User](https://forum.mssociety.org.uk/u/Inactive_User)\
**Post date:** [7 January 2015 10:46 UTC](https://forum.mssociety.org.uk/t/infection/38232/1 "2015-01-07T10:46:36Z")

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Hello all. Happy new year. Hope the Christmas period has been relaxing and joyous. I thjnk i have over done fhe sugar, normally on the best bet diet, but some chocolates, alcohol and other such things have leapt in to mg diet. Resulting in probable thrush. Now i know if you have a suspected uti they say go and see gp as it can cause a relapse is this the same for thrush? I got over the counter creams. Is that all gp would perscribe? also is cystitis the same as uti or something different ( if any one happens to know)

Thank you people and happy 2015

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**Author:** ![Rosina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Rosina](https://forum.mssociety.org.uk/u/Rosina)\
**Post date:** [7 January 2015 12:41 UTC](https://forum.mssociety.org.uk/t/infection/38232/2 "2015-01-07T12:41:42Z")

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Happy New Year! I’d see my GP if I was you, he may prescribe you antibiotics to clear things quickly. A uti, thrush or cystitis can all affect your MS, so better to get them cleared up quickly.

Rosina x

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**Author:** ![Inactive\_User](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3e96dc/32.png) [@Inactive\_User](https://forum.mssociety.org.uk/u/Inactive_User)\
**Post date:** [7 January 2015 16:14 UTC](https://forum.mssociety.org.uk/t/infection/38232/3 "2015-01-07T16:14:09Z")

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i agree with rosina

see your gp at once! or as soon as possible.

UTIs definitely cause relapses.

carole x

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**Author:** ![Snowflake-321](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Snowflake-321](https://forum.mssociety.org.uk/u/Snowflake-321)\
**Post date:** [7 January 2015 17:15 UTC](https://forum.mssociety.org.uk/t/infection/38232/4 "2015-01-07T17:15:54Z")

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Hiya

I have always been a slave to thrush - getting it several times a year. My GP told me that “some women are just prone to it” and “not to worry as it **won’t** cause a relapse”.

I can’t get the Canestan pessaries on prescription any more (the NHS won’t provide then), but I have been prescribed oral Fluconazole capsules which keeps it at bay for several months.

I don’t think antibiotics will help as its a fungal infection, not bacterial or viral.

Just one more thing we have to put up with!

Emma x

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**Author:** ![Inactive\_User](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3e96dc/32.png) [@Inactive\_User](https://forum.mssociety.org.uk/u/Inactive_User)\
**Post date:** [9 January 2015 09:02 UTC](https://forum.mssociety.org.uk/t/infection/38232/5 "2015-01-09T09:02:11Z")

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Thanx for the replys, typically after posting i lost internet for a couple of days! i think i will leave it until monday to make an apt. i know it sounds silly but im not good at drs, even, say, for a rash on the hand, let alone getting my bits out! but i have a feeling i may have to go!Doh!