It happened a couple times before while I was sleeping. I felt fluid leaking. Of course, if you google it you are told that it's either amniotic fluid or urine. It didn't seem like I was peeing myself and I thought it was weird that it was only happening when I was lying down. But since this was the third time it happened, I decided to go to the ER at Osan AFB.
It was early in the morning and I got seen right away. They did an ultrasound then made me drink a ton of water and did another ultrasound. I've had numerous ultrasounds in Korea and was never told to drink water. It makes me think that Korean ultrasound technicians are a lot more experienced than American ones. After they did the ultrasound and ran some tests they told me that it was neither amniotic fluid nor urine, but a yeast infection. And while you'd think that I would know what a yeast infection was, this was the furthest I'd been pregnant since my daughter and I figured all the extra discharge was normal plus I'd had it since the beginning. Now I know that the high doses of oral steroids (prednisolone) probably killed off the good bacteria and caused a yeast infection.
At least there's an easy fix and it just goes to show you that fluid isn't always amniotic fluid or urine.
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