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[starrox.livejournal.com]

i think i've got the beginnings of a yeast infection. the outer edge of my vaginal opening has been a bit itchy for the last few days. maybe a week or so. it's itchier today, so i finally took a mirror down there and noticed a thick (not the consistancy of cottage cheese or yogurt-thick...more like cream of muschroom soup-thick) ivory-colored substance kind of sitting in my vaginal opening. i swabbed with out with a q-tip and cleaned myself up a bit.

does this sound like a yeast infection to anyone else? i'm wondering what the best over-the-counter remedy would be to nip this thing in the bud.

EDIT: after checking webmd, i realize that the only symptoms i show of a yeast infection are the discharge (which isn't even cottag cheesey like the site says a discharge would/should be) and the itchiness. my vagina doesn't appear to be irritated in any other way, and i'm not experiencing any pain or irritation when i urinate.

HOWEVER. i am having weird pee issues -- my urine smells funky (musky and meaty, not like that normal pee smell) and i haven't had the same kind of bladder control since having a UTI three weeks ago.

could this be linked to the funny discharge?

i'm kind of perplexed at all of this, now.

help, please.

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[princessern.livejournal.com]

i do the whole garlic thing, it usually works like a charm.

[futile-efforts.livejournal.com]

well the symptoms of yeast infections vary from person to person. whenever i get yeast infections the discharge i have is never cottage cheesy-ish, it's more like what you described, just thicker and off white-ish. i also never have any discomfort when i pee during a YI. it sounds like you have a yeast infection. if you aren't positive you can just go to the gyno and find out for sure, but as a yeast infection connesiuer i think that's what you have.

the OTC treatment that works best for me is monistat 1. i'm sure any brand of antifungal treatment is just as effective though, but the sooner you use it the better. fire crotch is no fun.

[thevargasgirl.livejournal.com]

those are the symptoms i get when i have bv
i say go to a doc to make sure first if you dont KNOW its a yi
-=t

[mangofandango.livejournal.com]

When I get BV (bacterial vaginosis, a bacterial infection), the discharge looks a lot like that. It also doesn't usually itch, but it does cause pain during sex for me, and that's usually my first clue.

However, it could be yeast, too. My suggestion would be to go see a doctor, since you're having weird urine issues since your UTI and now you've got discharge going on. BV is only treatable with medecine, if that's what it is - yeast can be treated in other ways though.

[stellalunatic.livejournal.com]

Did you take an antibiotic for the UTI? This could be the link if it is, in fact, a yeast infection; antibiotics often cause yeast infections (in me at least - both times I have had a UTI, I was in almost immediately afterwards to get treated for yeast). But as someone above said, go in to see for certain that it is not BV.

Good luck!

[sooz.livejournal.com]

totally sounds like BV it makes my urine stink like meat and im a vegetarian

[starrox.livejournal.com]

yeah -- the meat smell weirds me out because i'm a vegetarian, too, for all practical purposes.

i hadn't even considered BV -- thanks for the input, everyone!

i did call my doctor, but the earliest she could schedule me in was for tuesday, and, guess what -- i leave on monday. so the receptionist told me to show up at 9:30 in the morning tomorrow and sit in the waiting room until maybe my doc or one of her associates could find ten minutes check out my cooch.

SO not the way i wanted to spend my last weekday morning at home (mindless minutes ticking by at the doc's office), but whatever. i'd much rather have a healthy vagina than an infected one.

would BV or a yestie prevent me from having sex in the next couple of days? based on the schedules of the future, the chances are rather slim that my boyfriend and i will ever see each other again after this sunday. so. we basically have plans to go at it like rabbits this weekend. it would SUCK entirely WAY too much if vaginal issues interfered with this. but. you know. health comes first, especially if either of these things could transmit weird issues to his genitalia, too.

thanks again for the input. i adore this community inside and out.

[sooz.livejournal.com]

yes yes it would :( the antibiodics for bv last a week and you arent supposed to have sex the entire time and yeast medicine can last anywhere from 3-7 days too.. its not only the problems of it spreading to him (because condoms can fix that) but its the problems more bacteria can keep it from going away

[starrox.livejournal.com]

that fucking bites.

[dokuya.livejournal.com]

since you have different symptoms i go with: see a doctor.
you really don't want to treat a YI and then find out you had BV or stuff, wrong treatment can (worst case) get you vulvodynia which you really don't want to have!!!