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I don’t know if I have one, but i have yellowy-green discarge and i mean sometimes there is so much that it soaks through. & there are these weird black specs in my discharge too. The smell is horrible, realllly strong fishy odor, and sometimes I am itchy down there. Also is there a way if i had it that I could treat it without going to the doctor, I have a fear of the doctors and would like to avoid it but I will go if I need to. & is a yeast infection fatal? Please no mean answers…
No, I am not sexually active
If it is that bad, you’ll have to go to the gyno. All the Dr. will do is swab for yeast and in minutes he’ll let you know, then give you and ORAL pill which is MUCH less messy than the OTC yeast infection treatments, and about the same price. You can get OTC meds. and see if you feel better, but you should definately see a Dr. before you misdiagnose yourself when something else could be wrong. If you let a yeast (or any vaginal) infection go too long, I’m pretty sure it can have damaging effects on the reproductive system…
I used the Target brand of the monostat 3 day treatment and I still have quite a bit of external itching. I finished it on Tuesday. Is it ok to use another treatment pack so soon? I’ve had yeast infections before and they’ve cleared up with the 3 day treatments. I hate to go to the Dr. because I will get charged. Has anyone tried this?
I couldn’t get into the article on that website.
Well i would hold off til saturday since that stuff continues to work days after. Buy a cheap tube of the external itch cream, it does wonders! Then try another round of it saturday.
im 33weeks pregnant and just last week i had been told that i had a yeast infection. the doctor gave me a 3day treatment and it caused my whole area to swell up, become highly irritated, and itchy x10!! so I figured the yeast infection was still there since i also still had yellowish discharge comming out and began using the 7 day monistant treatment. Im on the 3rd day now and ive realized that i could not get the applicator inside me as much as the night before so i took my mirror and checked my area out and i realized there were fordyce spots on the inner and outer lips and there is a cyst inside of me right where my hole was so now its blockin the hole entrance and im confused…
should I continue to use the monistant?
why is this happening?
and what kan I do that won’t affect my baby?
Get thee back to the Dr.! Since you are pregnant you really must seek professional advice, not getting sufficient treatment could potentially lead to premature birth so dont risk guessing or trying to get by on non-professional advice.
I’m sure you’ll get passed this…best of luck!!
I finished my OTC yeast infection treatment 3 days ago, and so far it’s been normal, milky white discharge, no itching, but today when i checked I saw some small white chunks a long with the milky white stuff; kind of reminded me of the medication maybe still being up there and it’s slowly coming out; but I just wanted to know if this normal. I am not itching, and it doesn’t smell weird or anything. Thanks!
Sounds like it’s reminence of the treatment. If it continues for more than 48 hrs, i would suggest booking a follow up.
I am currently recovering from a yeast and bacterial infection i took my pill for the yeast and am currently on precribed vaginal gel I will be done with my 5th application on wednesday…
my question is how soon AFTER I FINISH MY TREATMENT wilL I be able to have sex again (I know my doctor told me not to have sex while on the treatment) I ask this becuase I want to make sure that my infections are gone becuase…me and my partner perform oral sex on each other and I would not want him to go "down there" if the infection are not completly gone?
You might want to make sure that you at least 2 days after you finish your meds to make sure that the infection is gone because having oral sex can cause you to get the infection again. Remember yeast thrive in moist places….
Hello. I’d like anyone with any input on any of this to please reply. My story is very long. I will condense it considerably.
BACKGROUND:
I am a 38 year old white male with fair skin of mostly Irish and Cherokee decent. Until last year, I’d say my health had been really great, and I have had little need for doctors or medicines over that period. I have gone to more doctors and more frequently in the past 6 months than I have the previous 37 years combined. The greatest health problem I have is genital herpes which I contracted Sep 01, 2002 (a day I’ll certainly never forget, and not fond memories). Apart from that my only other complaint is "piles," which I do not see a doctor for.
Prior to August 1997, I’d had 3 sexual partners in my life, and all activities apart from oral were protected, even though all 3 were in committed relationships. From August 1997 to August 2008, that number rose to somewhere around 50. Most with whom I had unprotected sex. All were heterosexual. I count myself very lucky and fortunate to have made it 11 years of living that way without contracting very dangerous and even deadly diseases. August 1997, I decided to give up sex, likely forever. After all, I think I have had enough for several lifetimes.
Since ~Sep 01, 2008 (about the same day of year as my HSV infection but 6 years later), I began itching profusely on my inner thighs very near my crotch. I immediately tried treating it at home as jock itch. When this failed I tried simply Hydrocortisone. I then tried Permethrin (for scabies, crabs, mites). I then tried Neosporin. I then tried Benadryl cream and pills. After all of these failed, I decided to go to the doc. I initially went to the GP that had years earlier diagnosed the HSV. She gave a 14 day course of TRIAMCINOLONE topically with Doxycycline orally for 2 weeks. After this failed, she told me to go see a urologist. I went to a urologist that had diagnosed me with phlebothrombitis of the penile vein a few years earlier from too rough of sex. That resolved about 2 weeks later. He said he had no clue. He told me to see a dermatologist. I went to a dermatologist that I’d seen a year earlier just out of curiosity about a funny little bump that had been in the center of my chest for ~8 years. It was totally painless and was only an object of curiosity. I think she said it was Lipoma and that nothing could be done about it. I was ok with that. By the time I’d gone to see the dermatologist, my entire scrotum, crotch and upper inner thighs were beet red. She took one look and diagnosed it as erythrasma which she treated with Vtyone (Iodoquinol+Hydrocortisone) topically and Azithromycin orally. This improved things considerably. After this 2 week or 10 day treatment, only my scrotum remained red and it merely burned instead of itching. The crotch and thighs looked fine. She didn’t schedule a follow-up. At the end of treatment, I called to inform her that my scrotum was still red and was burning. She couldn’t see me for ~3 weeks. Since by this time, I’d been wrestling with skin difficulties in this general region for nearly 3 months and since I had "great balls of fire," I went to another (new) GP (I’d never liked this lady who’d diagnosed me with HSV and who treated me with TRIAMCINOLONE+DOXYCYCLINE). She came across rude and apathetic and seemed to enjoy making me wait for no reason at all). I like the new GP, he is friendly and at least projects a caring image. He treated it as a male yeast infection with Diflucan orally and Ketaconazole topically.
Ok. I am getting longer and more detailed than I wished. Anyways, when the yeast infection treatment from the new GP failed, I called the dermatologist again. This time, oddly enough, she could see me the next day. She treated it as chronic jock itch with Oxicanozole (all these "zoles") topically. This failed. Holidays came. She couldn’t see me. I went to new GP again, he gave me a cream with betamethasone and clotrimazole. This didn’t help. After the holidays, I go see dermatologist again. She gives me PROTOPIC (She didn’t say much. She didn’t say why. She didn’t even inspect things.) I applied it immediately. 2 hours later I was LITERALLY in tears from pain (burning). By this time it was 6PM Friday. I wasn’t going to call her. I immediately washed the area. Washing was painful. After a few minutes the pain was still off the charts intense. I took 800 mg of Ibuprofen. A few minutes later, the pain was off the charts. I tried applying some Lidocaine cream. A few minutes later, the pain is still of the charts. It then dawns on me to try an ice pack. Within minutes the ice pack relieves the pain considerably, not completely. However, I find that the entire night until the wee hours of the morning I had to keep an ice pack on it to keep from balling my eyes out from pain. The next few days, the pain was back to manageable, but constant, as it was before
Hi Mags.Thanks for the response.I am thankful for anyone who takes the time to read my concern & attempts to provide insight.I have not checked those symptom checkers yet.I may do that soon.I had tried webmd’s version & healthnet’s.I even paid a dermatologist on that site to answer my question.As with my real doctors, he was useless.He suggested something like, "it may be a rash in the seborheic dermititis/eczema family" or something & suggested I try steroids.I’d already mentioned I’d tried 3 steroids.With regards to the Valtrex.Ever since my 1st outbreak,I have taken 1g daily for prevention & even 4g daily for one day for outbreaks.About 6 weeks ago, I resolved to take NOTHING at all, not even Valtrex or Tylenol or Clariton or a vitamin.I did so to see if perhaps I am experiencing a side effect that perhaps noone has ever experienced before.I now simply wash only once every 2 days & apply no lotions or powders.The rash has improved modertaely at best,if at all, since this post.
I’m not a doctor, nor have I had your symptoms.
I’m going to provide the links to some decent Symptom checkers:
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/symptom-checker/DS00671
This one allows you to enter the symptoms and combine them.
http://symptoms.wrongdiagnosis.com/
Here’s a third:
http://www.healthcentral.com/symptom-checker/
I think your docs aren’t putting the whole picture together.
You are on meds for HSV – could this be a side effect
Check side effects:
http://www.drugs.com/
http://www.rxlist.com/script/main/hp.asp
Could your primary symptoms: the rash or itching and the tinnitus be unrelated?
I’m sorry that I can’t help more but the window for answering is closing and I just noticed your question.
Try the symptom checkers – they might help. – Hope you’re feeling better by now.
I have a Rx antibiotic but with a 9 month old at home and going to school and trying to keep up some engery I really can’t manage to take antibiotics…they seriously make me feel like I’ve been run over by a truck…a crap load of times and then some…
just wondering what the best OTC yeast infection treatment is…
monistat one day treatment comes with cream and wipes for itching. Best thing on the shelf.
http://www.infectionsandremedies.com/
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