i was diagnosed with a yeast infection last August. i used Monostat and it got cured but as my periods came, the infection kept coming back. i realized Monostat doesn’t permanently cure yeast infections. i also have a red, itchy, burning clitoris and sometimes i have the white discharge that follows by a yeast infection. i’ve also tried pills to get rid of this for good but it just keeps coming back. and now i am totally clueless. anyone have suggestions?

I have never had a yeast infection before. I’ve had bacterial vaginosis once several years ago and had no symptoms at that time. So this is completely new to me.

The symptoms I’m experiencing include a sore and slightly swollen vaginal area (sore and swollen labia, and soreness around the vaginal opening), these areas sting and burn when I urinate, but there is no actual pain from the urethra. It is also painful to touch and move. I am menstruating at the moment so it’s hard to gauge the discharge but prior to menstruation I had a dry white discharge that would ball up (this is normal for me before my period) and it was a little bit itchy (which it does occasionally with that kind of discharge). There has never been any odour.

I have considered several options from STD’s to having accidentally scratched myself (which has happened but was not nearly this painful) to an allergic reaction to a new type of tampon I’ve tried this cycle, but I’m really thinking it may be a yeast infection.

I’m unable to see a doctor at this time, so I’m considering just buying an OTC yeast infection treatment, but I’d like to know if anyone has any other suggestions as to what it could be?
***UPDATE***

Just to update, I got an OTC treatment, and it’s already helping! Thank you all for your advice!

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I had sex for my very first time a couple of weeks ago with my boyfriend. We used a condom when we had intercourse but we didn’t use any protection for oral sex. Days later I developed a clear odorless discharge which I thought to be normal but, a week later the discharge turned white and was thick, lumpy and heavier. It was still odorless and it didn’t itch or burn and I had no other symptoms. I went to the clinic and the MD prescribed some yeast infection treatment for 3 days. I got my period and thought that was the end of that. However, now my period is completely gone and i’m still getting a white discharge. It is itching a little around my vaginal opening but I don’t see anything else. My boyfriend recently said he got tested right after and tested positive for herpes?! I don’t know what to believe and I know I should just get tested and wait for my results but I won’t do that until next week. Is it herpes? If so was it wrong to treat it with yeast treatment? I am freaking out.

Ok, so I think i have a yeast infection…yuck. Its not my first, I think I get them alot but I don’t know what alot is. Anyway, on the box it says;

"Ask a docor before use if you have lower abdominal, back, or shoulder pain, fever, chills, nausea, vomitting, or foul-smelling discharge."

Why does it say that? What are those signs of? I have all the symptoms of yeast infection (white discharge, itching, and painful sex) and also most of the above symptoms (Bad pain in lower abdomin, SEVERE shoulder pain, back pain, nausea and vomitting almost daily for 2-3 months, foul odor) I tohught they weren’t even related, I would have never thought they were related! Especially since the other symptoms have been going on for a few months and the yeast infection symptoms have only been a week or 2. Whats going on?
Oh, and the medicine I got is OTC Monistat 3 suppositories. I don’t have medical insurance right now but I am a little worried because I have been trying to get pregnant for years and I haven’t had a period since may 1st, tested negative on 3 hpts.

ok i started getting symptoms of a yeast infection..u know the white discharge..itching…so i treated it witha monistat kit..i thought i saw improvement but then i started to get pains in my lower abdomen…like cramps and now i have like a burning sensation…idk its not bad but i think i might have an std or something…does this sound like an ything uve heard of? im going to the gyno tomorrow morn but im freakn out…please help