Bacterial vaginosis?

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Hey there!

I had a yeast infection a few months back and last week I thought I'd gotten another one and so treated it like before and it seemed to get better for a few days, but now I have the itching of a YI but I also have a really foul smell and a kind of yellowish discharge.

I taste different. I usually taste kind of sweet (yeay pineapple) but I tasted today and I wasn't REALLY bad tasting but it had a kind of sour/bitter edge, none of the sweetness I'm used to. I masturbated earlier but there was nothing unusual about the wetness produced. It had the same bitterish taste as my regular juices, but didn't feel or even smell any different. That's the weird thing I only smell the gross smell when I'm on the loo, there's no noticeable smell at any other time.

I tried digging around in there just now for the disgusting prospect that I'd left a tampon in (the smell is THAT bad) but there's nothing. There were some whitish clumps, however, but I'm sure that's just regular discharge for this time in my cycle.

I've read a bit about Bacterial Vaginosis, but couldn't find any really comprehensive list of symptoms, or anything I can do to help prevent it to squish the symptoms until I get to a doctor. Could this be what this is?

Oh and this may or may not be relevant but until the last few months I used to shower daily, but now our shower is scuppered and we have very very little money so we have to share a bath which I'm icked by (I never feel properly clean) but I've a feeling this has a lot to do with mah YI and other troubles as they started around the same time. Any ideas on how to prevent baths from buggering my poor girly parts?


EDIT: This is kinda important, but I forgot to add it, I'm not sexually active right now.