Yeast Infection Help

[jamiejackcorn]

I need advice for chronic yeast infections. Last year in January, I developed burning, redness and pain during sex around the opening of my vagina.. I didn't know what it was so it was left untreated for like 9 months.. My doctor gave me a prescription for Yeast Infection pills and the pain went away. Then a month later, it came back, I got the pills again and it then too went away. Then 2 months after that.. I got it again. (Mind you.. all this time.. I used OTC yeast infection creams, ovules, suppositories.. none work or have ever worked for me) So this last time that I have had it.. I started dating AZO Yeast and Nature Made Acidophilus tablets.. the pain went away.. But now I'm starting to feel a little discomfort again (it's right before my period) How can it make this all go away for good?

[sictranstigloria]

You may want to get it tested again to confirm that it is indeed another yeast infection. If it is not, constantly using OTC yeast infection treatments may actually worsen the problem by throwing off your natural bacterial balance that exists.

[jamiejackcorn]

Well, I've only used OTC medicines 2 or 3 times within a year and a half. I've decided they don't work so why bother anymore? Plus, if they did help a little and Diflucan actually made them go away each time.. It absolutely has to be yeast.. otherwise they wouldn't have helped.

[sugarpuss69]

if you are having SEX with your partner while you have a yeast infection,..then your partner then gets it to. BUT,..MEN SHOW NO SYMPTOMS!!! so you and your partner both need to be treated for the yeast infection or it becomes like a ping-pong game,....you get treated but you just get itback again after having sex with your partner. alot of women dont know that men also get the infection and so they end up just giving it back to you after you have been treated and then HENCE: its back and forth  [PING-PONG] as my dr. put it.

[Pcogale]

Yep, treat both of you.  But it may not be a cure all.  Some women are just more prone to yeast infections.  Some of it has to do with hormones especially oestrogen.  When it tends to be cyclical, it lends more to the hormone theory.

Sometimes women have candida that's quite mild but is treated effectively with anti fungal's but they don't show the classical signs ie cheesy discharge and itching.

It can be linked to diet.  You might want to try an anticandida diet but just be aware that it can take a while to see an improvement and with some people, it makes no difference.

It can be very annoying but sometimes there's no real answer.

[Sayde]

Awesome, they can send a man to the moon, but there is no real answer for chronic overgrowth of yeast in the crotch. Maybe someone can figure it out someday. Its not brain science after all. Sorry, I'm pissed and itchy. Heard this answer for years, some women more prone, blah, blah, blah... If a man's crotch was itching after sex everytime he had sex, someone would have found a solution. Its a damn PH problem, it really should be simple to solve.