Posted on: Nov 25, 2022 03:34PM

kayrem wrote:

Hi. I just came across this interesting article today.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2019/jul/vaginal-bacteria-linked-ovarian-cancer

I just did a google search because i have a lot of allergies and I am asthmatic and I often have had to take steroids, both oral and nasal, over my lifetime. I recently (last Sunday) started taking Flonase because the doctor saw a bit of fluid in my ear canal and thought it would help. It is a nasal steroid. I told him I did not want to take it because I always got thrush in my mouth when I took steroids. He said there is no way a nasal steroid would give me thrush, my husband said the same thing. Well Friday morning, 5 days after starting them (I even cut my dose down to 1/2 the amount last night since they were working so nicely), I got thrush!

So I was telling my husband that I wondered if it was the Brca 1 mutation gene that was causing a problem with yeast in me! He said no way. He thought it had to do with my (first time ever!) slightly high H1bc number. But then I remembered that I had yeast infections almost every month when I was a teen up until my 30’s when I went on an Atkinson diet for 1 year or so, so I could lose weight.I have no clue why but the Atkinson diet killed my yeast infection problem for good. I wonder if the Brca 1 mutation messes with our gut microbiome also. I found an article that said BRCA1 mutations had “different microbiomes” than non BRCA1 mutations but the is all I can find. I am 57 now and had all my prophy procedures done around 10 years ago. I am pretty happy I did that after reading this article.

I am wondering if any other BRCA1 mutation carriers have had as many issues with yeast and yeast infections over their lifetime’s also?