I get frequent gum infections (not gingivitis but i get that also), these infections are extremely painful & require antibiotics to go away. I numb my gums as much as possible & use pain meds during the infections & it still hurts...its an unbearable pain, my gums are swollen, red, & have even swollen up so much that it looks like they tear or something, n then they start leaking puss & blood.

I've been treated first by an ob/gyn for it & after over a year of chronic infections she referred me to infectious disease & they or one of my primary care drs have been treating me for it since then. I think that was 2007 to present. I take 200 mg of Diflucan 1 time a day every day & if I miss even a day the infections come back. I also get it in my mouth as thrush almost everytime & usually right before I get vaginal symptoms. Yeast medicines that are used vaginally do not work at all. IN 1999, After having my daughter who was breech by emergency c-section & then 9 hrs later having an emergency hysterectomy that I almost died from & I requried several blood transfusions & they had to give me 2 types of blood. Then I got a staph infection in the hospital after I was out out I.C.U. for a few days, so I had to be reopened (without pain meds) & they had to leave my stomach open to heal. That almost killed me too & I was on 4500 mgs of clindamyacin a day for another month after I finally went home from the hospital. MY yeast infections didnt start until after that & they just got worse & worse over time, & they continue to become more resistent over time as well. I would have yeast all the time without my medication & with it I still get infections sometimes now.

I also get chronic bacterial vaginal infections of two different kinds; however, not as often as the yeast. Basically, if the yeast starts coming back for any reason then I get or have a bacterial infection as well. So if I can keep the yeast infections under control then I can help control the bacterial infections.

Now my Sheehan's Sydrome and or Addisons would explain it also, if my cortisol levels are too high, so I am waiting on lab work to confirm

Like for Sheehan syndrome, I'm waiting on lab work to confirm. Should be any day now.

I have an empty sella and no brain tumor so that means I was wither born that way or had that happen during childbirth when I almost died and needed many blood transfusions etc. I just had blood work done to confirm this diagnosis but it seems to explain a lot of my problems.

At it's worst I've sllept up to 22 hours a day. The last few years it has been getting worse & kinda flares up to when it's even worse, esp in 2012 & 2013. Since late 2013 to present 2/2013 I am always tired as usual, but I am so tired that I can fall asleep sitting up after being awake even just 1-3 hrs. I def need to take naps & I am always tired.

I was diagnosed by an ears, nose, & throat doctor because after sleeping about 22 hrs a day for a year & my doctors thinking it was just my depression I developed a very large ulcer looking fluid filled bubble underneath my tongue so I went to see this specialist. He had never seen anything like it so he cut the whole thing out of the bottom side of my tongue (& it was about the size of a nickel) & sent it to a lab for testing. It came back showing OVER 3 TIMES the highest level of Epstein Barr Virus that they had ever heard of & because it was so high he tried to convince my mom to take me 8 hrs away to the University of San Diego to let them study me because they wanted to badly. Due to financial reasons, we were unable to do that.)