Odour issues (first post, I cannot believe I'm typing this).

[pookykabuki.livejournal.com]

Okay, so for the last few years, only off for short periods of time, I've had vag odours that I cannot stand;  I don't stand too close to people sometimes for fear that they might smell something weird and figure it out. My discharge seems normal, and I'm on Diane 35 for my skin; I'm not sexually active. I've only had my doctor look down there once because I thought I had a sore (I didn't) and he didn't think anything was abnormal.

I'm still too shy to describe it (I will if you ask - erk) but do any of you have a vag odour you dislike? I really don't think I have a yeast infection, but maybe you guys have better insight. Do you know of any way to minimize vag odour?

Comments

[chiyo-no-saru.livejournal.com]

You're probably fine. It's really unlikely that anyone else can smell it--women are almost always more sensitive to their own smell changes than other people are to theirs. There have been loads of times when I'm on my period, and I can smell the blood, and I'll ask my roomie if I smell weird or anything, and she'll say I smell totally normal, like my deodorant.

If you want try cleaning the area, though--not inside the vagina!--just use water or, if you really need to, a super, super gentle soap. Make sure you get between all the folds and that you dry very well afterwards.