This is pretty long but im miserable so try to bear with me…. After about a week and a half of taking penicillin for a strep throat, I was diagnosed with a yeast infection on moday. I was told that my infection wasn’t too serious and that i could buy an over the counter treatment because i am allergic to the persciption, so i bought vagistat-1and used on tuesday night before bed (after taking a shower). I also bought a vaginal itching and pain relieving cream and slept with that on too, which relieved the itching completely. When i woke up on wednesday morning i had horrible pain and tremendous swelling of the vulva and labia area with no serious itching and a very small amout of the yeasty discharge compared to what i had before the treatment (the swelling and pain was so bad that i had to ice it and take aleve to help it go down). The swelling seemed to go down but i was still very sore down there. I was thinking that this reaction could have came from the pain relieving cream, so i washed it off in the shower and did not put it on again that day, but i was still sore. When i went to use the bathroom before bed i noticed that the swelling was back, so i took more aleve and iced it again. Thursday morning i had no swelling, little pain, and no yeasty discharge so i thought i was going to be okay… that is untill the itching came back. I still did not use the pain relieving cream and i restrained myself from scratching at it because the irritation wasn’t too severe, and i knew it would get worse if i touched it. I was okay for the whole day, took a shower and slept fine the whole night. Friday morning (today) i noticed the discharge was coming back heavy again and slight itching again but, no swelling and just mild pain so i ignored it. About and hour ago the itching became so intense i could’t help but to scratch. I scratched so much that i made myself bleed. I’m also very sore, swollen again, and still the heavy discharge. I tried the pain relieving cream again, it seemed to help ALOT. I also iced it and took aleve to bring the swelling down. I dont think the treatment helped, i have heavy yeast and discharge and even though i’m okay for right now, i know its all gonna happen again. (I’m positive it’s not an STD or bacterial vaginitis by the way). Any advice? Is this common? I’m miserable and don’t know what to do anymore. Should i buy another treatment? Would i be okay to put bacitracin zinc first-aid antibiotic ointment on it and possibly little bit inside of me to try helping? Please help, i’m desperate!

Ok today is Thursday and I woke up with a horrible yeast infection on Monday. I am positive it is a yeast infection.. I am 32 and have had a couple and bv and I know the difference.. Anyway I bought Moinstat 3 ovule and used it Monday night. Woke up the next Morning and OMG I could not walk or sit.. very raw, itchy and swollen. So I called my ob/gyn on Tuesday and she prescribed me 3 diflucan. I took it Tuesday and I used the Monistat Tuesday night and was some better Wednesday morning. Then Wednesday night I put the Monistat external cream on after my bath and I itched so bad I thought I was going to throw up, so I did not use the final treatment last night. My question is.. my yeast infection is better.. but I am still a little raw and itchy on the external part mostly the labia area. Do you think this is normal? Or should it all be gone by now.