Pregnancy & Yeast Infections

[Lance06]

Hello Ladies and good Morning. Quick question.........

I  know that during pregnancy, you are allowed to use Monistat or over the counter treatments similiar to monistat (store brands) to treat yeast infections, but I was wondering if there were any oral medications you can take. I know that you cant take diflucan (fluconazole ~generic for diflucan) but I was wondering if there was anything else. My doctors office is not open yet so I will be calling them when they are available, but was wondering if any of you ladies knew anything about this.

Any help would be much appreciated!

[Lance06]

ALso note that after reading things online, I am very leary of taking this..

[Lance06]

In case anyone wanted to know. I just got a call from my doctor and apparently you CAN take diflucan while pregnant. Only 1 pill, but she said it is perfectly fine.

[MaryAK]

Same here!

[Lance06]

Yea, unfortunately you are not supposed to take Diflucan while pregnant, so, I guess I will have to see what the doc has to say. The creams dont normally work for me either, and in previous occurences, I normally have to take 2 diflucan's so many hours apart in order to get rid of my infection!

[MaryAK]

In my experience, the over the counter creams do not work for me but I am extremely sensitive to medications.  I alwasy call my doctor and she'll call in a script for me.  But, I think Diflucan is the only oral medication (at least it's the only oral medication I've ever heard of for yeast infections).