okay..this is my problem…background info: I recently had a yeast infection and did a home treatment…i do not think that it went completely away however. The itching went away but I still have a very slight odor, and white discharge. I have a gyno appointment scheduled two weeks from now..so i did not want to do anymore home treatments. I have only had one sexual partner and that is my current boyfriend. He had several partners but said he always used a condom before and he did not have any std’s. ..so i take birth control..but we do not use condoms anymore..we’ve been together for many months now and we’ve had sex all of that time. I trust that he hasnt cheated or anything like that..but i can’t help to wander if he was lying about not having anything. I was not too worried if i got pregnant which is why i felt it was okay not to use them.since he said he didnt have anything. WELL… i normally do self examinations of the genital area just to make sure it looks normal..and i have never noticed this before. …after a night of verry rough sex…i looked again and noticed raised bumps on the left and right side of the vaginal opening. Could this be due to irritation of a possible yeast infection…or is it more than likely warts.?? I have looked at pictures online but none resemble what i have. ..i did notice lots of pain during sex after he had used his fingers vigorously…so could this just be some kind of irritation…should i just wait to see if it goes away within a week before freaking out??! help!

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Ok I’m so sorry I know this is like a NOVEL, but PLEASE read this it’s so important and I’m pretty much severely depressed.

I’ve been having so many "womanly" problems lately and now I’m scared I might have HERPES please hear me out…. and only serious answers please! Ok,so a little over a month ago I took a spinning class for the first time… after the class I felt very sore and iritated in my vaginal region… but I thought nothing of it… just a little discomfort from the seat, and the fact that I wasn’t used to it. Then I started to experience itching… and a few days later a thick white discharge. I’ve had a yeast infection before… so I assumed that’s what it was. Coincidentally I had a doctor’s appointment a few days later for something completely unrelated, so I decided to wait until my appointment to treat the suspected yeast infection. When I got there she tried to do a pelvic exam and gather a sample…. but I had a lot of pain and pressure when she inserted the speculum and I was tense, so she could not collect a sample. I figured it’s because I’m a virgin… and that’s why I had the pain. Since she couldnt collect a sample she asked if I just wanted to treat it as though it were a yeast infection, I said yes and she gave me an option of prescription diflucan… or over the counter monistat,,,, I chose the diflucan… because who wants to deal with a messy cream. So I took the dilflucan pill… and you’re supposed to feel relief within 3-5 days…. NOTHING. It did not a thing. It was as though I hadnt taken anything…. so I called my doctor (GP)and explained…. and she said to make an appointment with a gynecolgist… so I called the gynecologist’s office but they were unable to see me for a couple of weeks and that ws way too long, because by this time my symptoms had gotten MUCH more severe (same symptoms… but just worsened). So i decided I couldnt wait to see the gynecologist and bought some Monistat 7. I took the Monistat 7… and after it was finished I noticed a DRAMATIC improve in the amount of discharge I was having…. i think the discharge I have now is just normal because it’s such a small amount. BUT the itching remained! At first I figured maybe it was just a little bit of the medication lingering in my body causing a bit of irritation…. but that was almost a week ago and the itching has not gotten worse! and theres burning. so I decided to check myself out down there to see if I could see anything visibly wrong… and now im FREAKING OUT. On my inner labia I have a cluster of bumps…. it’s mostly on the left side… but a few on the right side as well… they are not pus filled… and I know what ingrown hairs look like… and they are NOT ingrown hairs. I’m not sure how long they’ve been there because it’s not like I check myself out down there all the time….. but I figure they must have appeared recently or the doctor would have noticed it the first time i went in for a "yeast infection". So im totally paranoid and googling pictures of herpes and stuff… and Im not sure if it looks like that. The bumps are about the same size but they arent pus filled (at least not that i can tell… its not like I really got a close up look) The reason why I’m freaking out so much is because I had an incident about a year ago where I was intoxicated and molested…. I passed out, and if this is herpes it means I wasnt just molested…. I was raped. So PLEASE take this seriously and let me know of ANYTHING that you know of that can cause a cluster of reddish pink bumps, itching and burning. Anything that’s not an std….. cuz like I said if its an Std that means I was raped. PLEASE Im so depressed about this and I dont know who to talk to. PLEASE PLEASE HELP.

Oh in case you’re going to say"just go to the doctor", i will as soon as I get a chance… but I dont have a car and my doctor is really far away. So it might be another week or two before I can around to getting to a doctor…. thats why im online asking strangers. :/
oops i’m sorry I meant to say up there "the itching HAS gotten worse"**
oops i’m sorry I meant to say up there "the itching HAS gotten worse"**
Shoot, I also forgot to mention that I’m experiencing anal itching as well.

Tags: appointment, diflucan, few days, gp, gynecologist, herpes, monistat 7, novel, pelvic exam, speculum, thick white discharge, virgin, yeast infection

Is it possible to get rid of it without going to a doctor’s appointment or the desk of a prescription desk ?
If so, how ?
thank you

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I’ve had problems for years that I believed to be recurrent yeast infections or something of the sort, so did most of my doctors because the symptoms I had were most similar. But now I saw a new gyno that told me some women get vaginal herpes and they think it’s yeast infections.

Now… here’s the thing – I’ve never had an "outbreak". No sores, no scabs, barely any redness. But I’ve had this texture to the inside part of my outer labia and inner labia that’s sort of like… you can’t see it unless you stretch the skin and then they look like lots of whitish bumps, slightly raised but not inflamed or anything.

Again, you can’t see them unless I stretch the skin, they’ve never EVER become sores or scabbed over and I’ve had them for a while. I can’t remember when I first noticed them, it probably was after I’d become sexually active so that’s why I’m worried.

I looked at pictures online and most herpes sores don’t look anything like it but some of the drawings I’ve seen do remind me of my "bumps". I also know that some women just have a grainy texture to their labia but I don’t know.

Is it possible at all to have herpes with bumps but no sores? For years? I know it’s possible for a couple months but not years and besides, it seems like you’d be able to see them without stretching the skin.

Please help, I won’t see my dr for a while, it’s hard to get an appointment and I’d like some info from perhaps someone who’s more familiar with genital herpes etc. I’m really worried now though I doubt I have it. My gyno said about 70% ppl don’t have antibodies so negative test results mean nothing (which I had and they were negative).

HELP!
No, they don’t look anything like genital warts, I’ve checked thousands of times. As I said, you can’t see them unless you stretch the tissue. And while I do get minor irritation around the entire area and itching (which I would attribute more to yeast or irritation from soap or whatever), it’s never really painful or bad, there are no sores which I think I would notice!!!

But I do get pretty bad itching around the entire area sometimes, enough to wake me up. It doesn’t LOOK abnormal though, that’s the thing. With warts, HPV or herpes, you would definitely get visible lesions, it seems.
Also my doctor told me to use Ivory soap and not intimate washes (I was kind of shocked) but I tried and it caused so much irritation I could barely sleep

Tags: antibodies, appointment, drawings, genital herpes, genital warts, grainy texture, gyno, herpes, herpes sores, inner labia, minor irritation, negative test results, outbreak, outer labia, ppl, recurrent yeast infections, scabs, soap, stretching the skin, vaginal herpes

okay so i just took a pregnancy test and it was positive. and i think i have a yeast infection or something. could it hurt my baby? have any of you had a yeast infection before u got pregnant? and i know i need to see the doctor i just made an appointment but i want to see if any of u guys know so i can stop worrying so much. thanks

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So i do believe i have a yeast infection. My discharge is white, thick and clumpy and it itches and is a little swollen. There is a chance i am pregnant, my mother does not know, i am 17. I am calling the GYN tomorrow to make an appointment. I googled causes of yeast infections and pregnancy is one of them other then medicine reasons and i am not on any kind of medicine at all. Would the doctor be able to tell if i am pregnant? It is to early to take a home pregnancy test. What other causes are there for yeast infections? would the infection harm the fetus?

Tags: appointment, causes of yeast infections, fetus, home pregnancy test, Medicine, yeast infection

Is it possible that I have a yeast infection if only my vulva is itchy, not my actual vagina? I have had one yeast infection before but I didn’t even notice any symptom-at my annual gyno appointment she noticed a small one and gave me the meds for it. I also have little tiny white bumps, which may or may not have been there before…I don’t think its actually the bumps that itch, because they are more up by my clitoris. I had unprotected oral sex about 6 weeks ago, and these mild symptoms have been happening since then. At first I got really concerned that it was herpes, but the bumps were there about 7-8 hours after contact, and I don’t think herpes can show up that fast? Also there has been no change to the bumps, and they may have been there for awhile, they are really really small and I only noticed them because I was nervous and checking things out down there to make sure there wasn’t a problem. I also already have oral herpes, so I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t be very likely that he would have passed oral herpes to me down there. That’s the only thing I’ve ever done below the waist, so I know its not an old infection.
It can’t be HPV because I got the gardasil shots…and I had the last shot over a year before this happened so it’s not like they wouldnt have taken effect yet or anything, and thee bumps are nothing like warts they are pinprick sized white bumps

Tags: appointment, clitoris, herpes, meds, mild symptoms, unprotected oral sex, vagina, vulva, warts, yeast infection

i’m 14 and i’m pretty sure i have a yeast infection. i haven’t gone to a doctor yet but i have an appointment. but most of the cures include inserting one of those egg things from a tube, like monistat 3 or something, and it’s hard for me to insert things in there. i cant even get tampons to work. so i was wondering if there was something i could use, like a cream or a pill instead, that would get rid of a yeast infection if i do have one.

Tags: appointment, egg, monistat 3, tampons, yeast infection

Should I make an appointment with the doctor? What will they do? Does this involve shots?

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My mom made an appointment for me today…she’s at work so I can’t tell her I started…the flow is pretty heavy, even for the first day. I always wear pads because I’m only 14 and I don’t want to use tampons until I’m older.
I think the doctor might have to, um, use a swab or whatever because I tried treatment and it didn’t work…I’ll see what happens when my mom gets home in a couple of hours. I really want to get this sorted out, but it’s a male doctor…do you think there’s any way he would let me, um, get the evidence myself?
Please help, what do I do??

Tags: appointment, male doctor, mom, swab, tampons

one of my first signs of pregnancy was a very mild yeast infection. i didn’t treat it at the time, i was waiting for my doc. appointment. i treated it when i was 12 weeks with a 7 day cream.

BUT my best friend (of 18 years) has unprotected sex with her boyfriend. she truly thinks, she isn’t able to get pregnant because they’ve "tried" in the past. they had unprotected sex during her ovulation, and a week later she is experiencing a very mild yeast infection. she isn’t due for her period for another week, it is too soon to take a test. i told her, she maybe pregnant and to be careful on how to treat her yeast infection. she kind of blew me off and took monistat 1 (24 hour cream); basically the strongest dosage. i’ve read in books, it takes a pregnant lady a little longer to treat her yeast infection because too high of a dosage can be fatal… (the average time for a pregnancy yeast infection is 7-14 days).

has anyone treated their yeast infection early in a pregnancy (who didn’t know) and is still pregnant or has a healthy baby?

what are the chances of the pregnancy being OK? (IF she is even pregnant)
but she already took it… like i said, she blew off my advice. she just wanted to get rid of the infection (understandable but i thought it wasn’t "safe")

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