Firstly I’d like to say hi. Ok so I’m a 19 year old guy I am sexually active been with one a few different partners, used a condom with all but one.
This is how it started, I first got these sort of red patches under the foreskin and I searched online as you do (I was embarrassed to go to the doctors) and everywhere I looked said that it was a yeast infection. so I thought ok ill wait a couple of days to see if it gets any worse, sure enough the red patches started to spread on the actual head of the penis and it started to get itchy. This all confirmed the yeast infection idea so I thought ok ill bite the bullet ill buy Canisten DUO cream and tablet. it worked, all the symptoms went then a couple of days after finishing the course the red patched came back, then I presumed I done the course properly so I bought another course and used the cream religiously. The symptoms went and then they come back soon as I finished using the cream again. By this point it was like ok I’m going to have to go to a sexual health clinic (GUM). I did and they took a swab of here and there and so forth and I said that I think it is thrush. They couldn’t find any STI's or the Candida yeast from the swabs. So they diagnosed it as balanitis. They gave me a cream to use. It’s called Daktacort 30g (contains miconazole nitrate 2% w/w, hydrocortisone 1% w/w.) I have been using it for nearly 2 weeks now, during the first week it took the redness away, then about 10 days into it I thought it would be fine, they said use it for a week and see if it goes, I did and it went then I thought I’d use it 3 more days for luck. Then within two days the redness came back with a vengeance so I thought ok id use the remainder of the cream, still using it now and its about 3 weeks of me using the cream (give or take). Now the redness is coming back even though I’m using the damn cream and it looks as though a bit of the head is peeling.
Do you think this is balanitis? Yeast infection? Or Allergy to some mystery allergen?
I don’t mean to come across angry or anything I’m just a little frustrated with it and I am desperate to sort it out.
Kind regards
Reaper