Trichomoniasis related to male yeast infection?

[worried_guy999]

My girlfriend confronted me with a pap smear result stating she tested positive for Trichomonas. She'd originally thought she had a bad yeast infection. I have type 2 diabetes and have had problems with yeast infections related to high blood sugar. Is it possible that the Trich result and my yeast infection could be related? A year ago in the beginning of our relationship we had a similar problem which we were both given a z-pack even though I tested positive for nothing. Needless to say I am confused.

[stillHurting]

Yeast and Trich are different organisms, so one infection should not  be related to the other.  Unless possibly something like a chronic yeast infection lowers your resistance to Trich, which I'm not aware of, and even if it did, there still has to be a source of the Trich infection.  It's not part of the normal flora of the body like yeast is.

Z-pack (azithromycin) will treat neither yeast nor Trich, so I'm not sure why you both took that?

Needless to say, I'm confused as well.