I noticed a long time ago that I would get a yeast infection a few days before I ovulated and then I would get vaginitis. Every month I use to treat the yeast and then treat the vaginitis. Eventually I got tired of fighting it and I was too broke to keep buying the medication, and let nature take it's course. The vaginitis seems to wash away when I had a period. After my period, everything would seem normal for about a week. A few days before ovulation, I was start getting yeast. Then the vaginitis would eat up the yeast. I told a biologist about my observation and he said it was probably homeostasis. I figure the bacteria causing the vaginitis feeds on the yeast. The yeast needs hormones to flourish.

Now I am 51 and I haven't had a period in a couple of years. I was having mild yeast all the time, unless I used GSE. Then out of the blue I got vaginitis. I hadn't had sex in seven months, so it was a systemic recurrance, not something I caught. I treated the vaginitis with Goldenseal and took mega doses of probiotics. This seems to have dramatically diminished the yeast in my system. Now I'm wondering if yeast needed the bacteria as much as the bacteria needed the yeast.