I have a yeast infection but i am unsure how to go about treating it. I was planning on buying some OTC medication such as Monistat but after reading some of the reviews of awful experiences people have i am skeptical. I have never had an infection before and am not sexually active. I have read that you can use garlic, eat yogurt, and take a bath with some apple cider vinegar. Are all these way just as effective as the OTC meds? And will they actually clear it up? I am currently living away from my home town so seeing a doctor right now is out of the question.
Also, will eating the garlic have the same effect as applying it to the area?

it really did helped but i want to wait for it to come out before i do this with more caution

I know this is gross, but I have searched like crazy and can’t find the answer. I got my first small yeast infection and found a ton of info saying that yogurt (and putting a garlic clove up there is supposed to work, too) could cure a yeast infection, and to actually put yogurt down there and…inside. Well, I got desperate and actually did it. I also did the garlic for 3 nights.

I keep checking myself to see if the white discharge is gone, but I am still finding some white stuff, which is not lumpy like they say yeast infections are (but it is definitely white, and not something else), no yeasty smell, and is almost like a liquidy texture.

Is this the yogurt coming out still? It’s been about two days since I did that treatment (the frozen yogurt tampon). How do other people get the yogurt out? Does it come out naturally? Get absorbed? If I only find a tiny bit of that and maybe one small (I mean tiny) bit of yeast, am I pretty much home free?

Also, I bought Actimel (euro version of DanActiv) which is a yogurt drink with lots of live cultures. Will drinking, say, 8 small bottles of this in the course of a day for a few days help curing this along?

I know this is a lot, but the question about getting the yogurt out is the most important! What is supposed to happen?!

First of all, I am 100% sure this is a yeast infection, I had it confirmed by a doctor. I’ve had a constant yeast infection for almost two years, so I’m going to go ahead and say it’s pretty severe! I’ve tried Diflucan I believe it’s called. I took one prescription pill and it did nothing, so I was put on them for a month, and it still did not get rid of it. I also used a kind of topical cream that you have to deposit in the vagina, I was on that twice, and it did nothing, and I used Canestan and Monistat too with no luck. I don’t have the worst diet. I do indulge in unhealthy foods here and there but I have a good amount of fruits and veggie’s in my diet. I heard that garlic may help, but something about putting a garlic clove in my vagina seems a bit…wrong My reasoning is that if I tried all of those prescription medications then why the h#!! would garlic work!?! However I eat a lot of yogurt and I take garlic tablets to get it in my system. Does anybody have any medications or natural remedies that worked, or has anybody had a severe yeast infection and gotten rid of it? I am absolutely tired of it!

Putting garlic in your vagina cures yeast infection? Has it ever worked for you? How much of it do you apply and for how many days to apply it? Also how do you know when yeast infection has gone? I get white/yellow thick discharge sometimes and some people said its yeast infection. I also dont want to tell my mum or go to the doctor because its embaressing. Im also 14 and ive had that yellow thick creamy discharge since i was like 9… I thought it was normal but i guess not. I also get normal discharge too (white/clear slimy stuff)