Vaginal tear and thrush - help!

[Kgibbs]

Hi all. I'm a 26 yo female. Last Friday (1 week ago) I have some fairly vigorous sex with a new partner. Felt fine Saturday but then Sunday was having so much itching on my vagina. I had a look and found a tear. Went to the pharmacist on Monday who said the itching was the healing process. Then two days later still in a lot of pain, white spots appeared. I went to the doctor who was confident it was thrush after an extremely painful examination. The next day I got migraine, fever/chills, dizziness and nausea and ended up in a&e and admitted overnight given IV fluids and IV paracetamol plus 7 days course of antibiotics for an infection. They aren't 100% sure where the infection is, but they think it's a urinary one. However I have a lot of pain in my neck glands and ears.
The problem is my vagina is still in agony and stopping me from getting any rest. I've done a pessary, applied cream twice a day and used ice packs. Is there ANYTHING else I can try? I don't know how to get better when I can't sleep!

[specialmom]

Argh. What an ordeal.  I'm sorry you are going through all that.  Short of pain pills, I don't know what to tell you.  I know after I gave birth, I used the pads you use for hemmerroids which helped with the stinging and pain.  I would leave it in my underwear (nurses told me to do so) in between having to go to the bathroom.  I also had a squirt bottle that I'd fill with warm water and squirt as and after I peed so it didn't hurt as much.  Tucks was the name of the little pads I used.  Maybe try those?