I'm bout to start 7 day for twice a day 500mg pill and I'm so scared reading all the side effect stories 😭

I just used monistat 3 and the itching and burning started within minutes i think its subsiding im too afraid to move i just want to know what i should look out for when it comes to chemical burning? if I should even continue with day 2 and 3? If the burning ever goes away??? Also does my period affect the cream i should be starting in about 3 days

I just finished my last dose of bv gel two days ago. But I am still in pain with some pressure and am very red “down there.” I feel like this may be a side effect from the medication. Has anyone ever experienced this?

Going to call my doctor and make another appointment tomorrow. Very frustrated because I’ve had bv twice this past month. It’s just not resolving, I feel super defeated.

For those who received irritation and clumpy discharge after taking vagibiom. How long did it take to subside? I took my last one last monday and it is now Sunday. i’m so mentally exhausted from this

❗️NSFW PICTURE IN COMMENT ❗️ hey so i think i have yeast infection, Im not sure and the itching and pain is driving me nuts!! I am seeing wet paper like discharge when I’m wiping along with the constant itching. My skin near my vulva is all red and scaly, its peeling a lot and has been itching non stop with a sudden pain in my vagina and vulva. I will attach a PICTURE in the comment. I cant go to a walk in clinic or visit a gyno rn and need instant remedy for this. Im going out to walmart or Shoppers drug mart first thing in the morning tomorrow to buy anything otc. Please help me out here as the pain is making me miserable.

Does anyone have any recommendations for soap to use in bubble baths? Me and my girl both love baths but almost every time we use bubbles I end up with a yeast infection so we’ve stopped with the bubbles. We’ve tried a few different soaps and nothing has really worked so just wondering if anyone has any recommendations?

I have to take it twice a day. Do I wait 6 or 12 hours

My grandma is 90 and she told us that her labia minora has been swollen for a few days. It is swollen, hard as a rock, but doesn’t hurt and no change in color. Any idea what this might be?

I just finished a 3 day clotrimazole intravag treatment for a yeast infection and had a slight odor a day after my last dose. Is this normal??I’m not sure if I’ve read a post regarding this because I can’t find it anywhere now.

I hope it’s not BV developing 😭

I struggle with excessive tension/pain during penetrative sex, and with my current fwb I’m getting a YI every time we have sex. We use Durex condoms which I don’t think contains any bad ingredients and lube that works fine on me too. I thought it was the tension bc I was never tense with my previous partner and with him I didn’t get YI’s. Does anyone else recognize this experience? Please lmk, I’m pretty desperate :(

On the Wednesday I started to have some itching in my vagina, but thought that it was from the leggings I was wearing being too tight so I didn’t think much of it. Just took a hot bath, put some rash cream down there and went to bed. Thanksgiving Day I was still a bit itchy but thought it was just irritation from the day before. However, Thanksgiving night I had an intense itching down there that I’d never experienced before. It was unbearable. I thought maybe I had a yeast infection and put clotrimazole anti fungal cream on and left it alone. The next day I woke up and not only had itching but a burning stinging sensation at the entrance of my vagina. It does not hurt to pee, I’m not frequently peeing, I took a few at home UTI tests and they were all negative. My gut says this is a yeast infection but the stinging burning feeling at the entrance of my vagina is worrying me. It hurts! And I checked with mirror, it is really red and inflamed. I don’t have insurance so I did a telehealth visit and was prescribed diflucan, 1 pill every 72 hours. I took my first pill 24 hours ago. The itching has subsided at this point but the red, burning area at the entrance of my vagina is still there! It stings when touched. I’ve continued putting antifungal cream on, also taking over the counter yeast tablets, I even have used two boric acid suppositories that I don’t feel did anything. idk what else to do. Is this normal with a yeast infection (suspected yeast infection)? Anyone else experience this? HELP!

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I’m on the lookout for any specials on boric acid (please comment if you know of any) but I know that Après are having a 50% off sale, so what better time to share some discounts and positivity?!?

I’ll pop the code for Après with a link to their site in a reply comment here 👌

what products REALLY work to lighten inner thighs and the 😼lips?

Went to vulvavaginal specialist after being on waitlist. Been having non stop itching/burning for two years. Was on a bunch of antibiotics for a year. She said gbs wasn't an issue, didn't really give me any tips on getting my lacto up. I've tried probiptics/suppositories. What have yall done to get rid of gbs / replenish lactose? Thanks!

I started dating my current partner back in June and unfortunately, every time we had sex I had BV shortly after. It was only up until four months ago that I was diagnosed with P.I.D did I start taking it really seriously and I started looking around searching for any type of answer he was diagnosed with Ureaplasma he fixed it. Everything was good on his side. I took medication for my P.I.D and everything seemed good but then I got BV again as well as yeast this is so devastating and hard because I have been heavily struggling for so long. I came across somebody who said they were cured of BV I asked them what they did and they wrote me a huge message and honestly, I can’t thank them enough!!

I started taking these probiotic called Happy V Religiously for three weeks straight. I stopped wearing underwear started changing out of my gym clothes as soon as I could as well as right after sex peeing as fast as I can, and getting wet paper towel, and cleaning around the outside of my vagina and making sure that area stays dry as much as possible.

Dealing with this for six months and then having a completely normal vagina after taking this for almost 3 weeks I’m legit shook unfortunately I still have a little bit of symptoms of dryness on my clitoris but I think my vagina is just trying to get back to normal. I went into the doctors yesterday and they said that I don’t have anything just a bit of information for me and my partner probably doing the deeded .

Also, I do have to mention that these pills have put my pH in a place where she is always wet 🤣 so TMI but I can’t think these pills enough for saving my life. And I can’t thank the girl who put me onto these pills enough.

My story is different than everyone’s but I do hope that it can help somebody that is struggling with BV :(

In a bit of a panic but heading to emergency doctor appointment soon as I woke up to deep cut on the labia fold under/to the right of my clitoris.

I have paper like cuts very small as well on labia, and some have formed near vaginal opening so it hurts to wipe. I’ve had these before and I think they are from the thongs I wear.

A few days ago I had the yeast type discharge that has now gone, but someone the deep cut and swelling has now came up AFTER thrush cream (canesten but also used balance activ)

I’m very doubtful it’s herpes as I have a low immune system anyway and have never had “outbreaks” or blisters. I also have had the same sexual partner for 5 years and no issues.

Panicking it’s something sinister, are the raw cuts from yeast potentially? I’ve maybe made them worse with the cream:((

I'm at 18 days alcohol free. I started getting sober in August, had a few relapses, it happens. BUT my period has been all over the place for the last two months. Starting and stopping. I finished my last period two weeks ago, now I'm bleeding again. Has anyone else experienced this?

i keep getting these weird yellowy/white things that seem very similar to tonsil stones in my vagina. i wiped my vagina after pooping today and they were there and then in the shower i managed to pull a bunch of them out. i’m worried now that i smell down there or that they could appear during sex. is this thrush or something else??

photos will be linked in the comments :)

I am sooo bummed and scared to find my first pap smear came back abnormal. Everything was fine other than them detecting squamous intraepithelial cells and saying I’d need a colposcopy. What’s frustrating is the nurse I was on the phone with wouldn’t really answer my question of it being an HPV diagnosis or not, I’ve read and was told that’s the “most probable” cause but it’s not really an answer and i’m not at the capacity to test for it individually right now. I’m scared to be intimate with my partner at this point and haven’t been. Anyways, i’m just here to try to get peace of mind before moving forward, if anyone here has ever had one or a biopsy and could share their experience I’d be so appreciative - I feel silly asking about this please be kind 🥺🩷

Do I have any options?? Originally, they thought they saw a 5cm fibroid on my ultrasound. Pelvic MRI showed nothing wrong. So I have no idea what's causing me to bleed at all times (almost 8 months straight and sometimes I hemorrhaged). My Dr's only recommendation was Mirena IUD. I am terrified of iuds and birth control pills, I do not want them at all. I prefer to use barrier contraception methods. I can't keep bleeding, but I also don't want an iud. Help.

Has anyone tried it and does it actually work? The ads are so convincing and even the website reviews but I want to hear it from actual customers…any experience with it? How about uro by o-positive? Any truth to it?

How’d would you feel if you disclosed your status (hsv) before becoming sexually involved with someone, date for a year- only to find out after a year that they also have hsv (and have for SEVERAL YEARSSS) and never said anything to you about it… you find out yourself through a coincidence. They also initially lied about it when confronted & eventually said they had no plans of mentioning it because they didn’t want to think about it and don’t have outbreaks (but you found a recent refill for Valacyclovir).

You’d feel violated & betrayed right? They are apologetic but that means nothing to me at this point.

I’m so disappointed & numb. Just want to know I’m not overreacting.

21 F. I’ve been struggling with my vagina in ways I would have never known were possible, if it did not happen to me. Last year I was a virgin. Never had ANY issues when I didn’t know what sex even was. I started having sex like 8 months ago (always with a condom on). On the 5th month mark, I had what doctors thought was a simple UTI. I had never experienced one in my entire life, so at first I didn’t know that I had to get tested before taking antibiotics. It started with a bladder pressure, and this weird feeling of having to pee, but not being able to actually pee everything when I went to bathroom. I drank so much water… and then I ended up noticing literal blood in my pee. I freaked out and called my doctor. He gave me a round of antibiotics (without running any lab), which cleared it up after 2 doses. At the time my bf and I used to have sex in the car (meaning I could not pee right after). After that accident, I went on with my life doing everything in my power to not make it happen again (bidets, peeing right after, taking D-Mannose; things I still do to this day) But then… it happened again. I’m talking about maybe after 2 months? The 2nd time was HORRIBLE. I was at my bf’s house. We had sex on two days. After the first “round” my vagina was burning from the inside, it was a different feeling than the first time I had a “UTI”, so I thought we just went too hard (but we are too vanilla for it to hurt like this). The day after I felt slightly better and wanted to have sex again… worst decision of my life. The morning after I woke up, went to the bathroom and oh god. I was peeing even more blood than the first time it happened. And I continued to pee pure red for a couple days. Of course the same morning I went to the ER, they didn’t test me again, told me it was a UTI and gave me a bigger round of antibiotics. After that instance, I became afraid of sex. I love my boyfriend immensely, but my libido is as low as a nun right now.

Thing is, after that I had urinalysis done twice. It was always negative. So it is not a UTI. I started thinking that maybe it was the condoms? So I bought the Skyn ones. The first time I tried them I had pain during sex. The PIV pain is not new to me, I have been experiencing it since I started having sex and is caused by some positions (like the ones from the back). But this the pain that I feel now is different. It’s like it burns inside, and we even used lube but had to stop. Second time it went very smooth and I was a pool, didn’t use any lube. I thought I was normal again.

Yesterday we had sex again, no lube and different brand of latex free condoms. I did my entire post-sex routine of D-Mannose, water, pee and such. I actually wasn’t feeling the best even before having sex, I had bladder pressure, some abdominal and gas, but I didn’t think much of it since I should get my period this week. I was dry during sex, no matter what my boyfriend did. The new condoms also felt like total plastic. Today I am feeling the UTI-symtoms again (lose back pain, hips pain). No blood in my pee yet (thank god). Another thing I noticed is that my vagina feels “swollen”? Like when you have an orgasm, which I am unfortunately not experiencing right now. I also don’t have discharge, no itching. I was wondering if at this point it could be BV? Or hormonal issues? Thing is, doctors don’t even feel the need to test me. So I am doing this by myself. Could anyone here share their story if it sounds similiar to mine? I am losing my mind over this. I really didn’t need my vagina to act up

Hey girlies! I have a question; is it normal for your clitoris and labia minora to be a little swollen “puffy” while ovulating, it happens to me every time i’m ovulating and it goes away when i’m finished ovulating. Is it normal for some of you? Or is it just me? Is it something i should be concerned about?

I was prescribed two doses of diflucan after being diagnosed with a yeast infection. The pills didn’t really work and I now have two new symptoms of itching and clumpy white discharge.

What I’m concerned about is that I have recently had a hymenoplasty done due to cultural reasons in my country. From what I read online, next courses of treatment after diflucan are usually suppositories and creams - both of which I probably can’t use due to the surgery. At the same time, I can’t let the site get infected. Does anyone know what the next course of prescriptions usually are? Are there other pills that can be taken orally when diflucan doesn’t work?

Hi,

Inconsistently, I have experienced pain during sex in one position only. Switching positions usually removes the pain and it’s only upon thrusting that I feel it. It doesn’t happen each time I have sex, but here and there over the past year.

I recently found out that I have chlamydia, and based on the most likely exposure, I estimate that I’ve had it for about 11 months.

I also recently had an unrelated ultrasound, but didn’t know about the chlamydia at the time and therefore didn’t request to be examined for PID. I do have a small cyst that I will receive another ultrasound to monitor.

• is the pain during sex caused by PID constant, during every occurrence or can it disappear upon changing positions?

• has anyone ever had an STI for 10-12+ months and did not develop PID?

• how exactly should I be tested to rule out PID? I would like to know my anatomical reproductive health so that I can begin planning for a family.

Thank you!

Hi all,

I have had vulvodynia for a few months now… the burning is relentless. I’ve been treated for enterococcus faecalis, BV and ureaplasma but still the burning remains.

I feel the burning sensation almost 100% of the time but is definitely aggravated by sitting, urinating, and sex (definitely a no go - even a finger into my vagina is excruciating - but honestly not painful upon insertion but after about 1-5 minutes the pain becomes so bad and stays for hours to days) I also have irritation with showering, and certain clothes and underwear.

Up until now I’ve always been able to insert tampons and menstrual cups with ease. But penetration with sexual intercourse has always caused me pain.

Has anyone experienced this before? Could this be partially due to pelvic floor dysfunction? I’m beginning to wonder if my symptoms aren’t perhaps due to 1) localised irritation and hypersensitivity to my labia minora and 2) pelvic floor dysfunction causing me pain at my vestibule.

Please let me know your thoughts! Anyone with experience here is much appreciated 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼

I’ve been bleeding for four days since my Pap smear. Not just spotting, period level bleeding. Doctor said I had a bad yeast infection (for the first time ever — seems to be a common thing with a glp1 I’m taking), and also told me he cervix a good sweep just to make sure he was being thorough. He gave me an ultrasound after the PAP and this probe was insanely bloody

I’m going to call his office tomorrow but wondering if yeast infections make your cervix this tender? Also have a hysteroscopy scheduled Tuesday to remove a polyp/fibroid and kind of worried they won’t let me do it bc of the infection/bleeding

So for the past month a bit i have just experienced overall vaginal irritaion mild otching and burning nothing to the point of severe pain, with quite alot of watery white discharge. A couple weeks ago I had sex for the first time in a while due to recovering from a uti and became quite swollen which heightened my irration symptoms. Today i have started experiencing some brown discharge with what looks like tiny bits of old blood, i just feel an overall snestaion of rawness all over down there including my urethra im not sure if it could be due to physical trauma from wiping too hard or itching but its stressing me out a little bit. It doesnt have a very offensive smell maybe a little sour but nothing major

Has anyone experienced this?