Thread: Still Yeast Infection?

Hey all, I've been here before, and now I'm back. A month back I had a pregnancy scare - probably a little ridiculous of me. Got a urine test at the health center, and took three hpts about a week apart each; all negative and not one borderline positive. I think the stress about it may have done something psychologically, but I'm not sure.

Anyway, I was bloated, and had bowel issues, and random pain sometimes, and was finally relieved to have an answer when the lady there told me I had a yeast infection. She gave me the one pill of Diflucan that covers a week of treatment, and it seemed to help - [warning; possible excess info ahead] discharge increased, so I thought it was flushing itself out before it went away for good. Well, I went back the next week, and she said the good bacteria were coming back nicely, and that I should be fine. A little over a week later, I feel it is still here - sometimes gets itchy down there, the skin right above near my hip line seems slightly dry, still discharge. I bought lots of yogurt and plan on downing it for a while, but want to know...

With a vaginal yeast infection, do you get bloated like this? And constipation? Sometimes, when I touch my stomach when its bloated, it feels a bit firm ... and sometimes not.

And then about my boobs ... [again, information excess] I told the doctor at the health center that my nipples had been acting different. What do I mean? Well, the tips seem slightly darkened, but do not hurt. It isn't really noticable until I shower or something - I feel like once I undress and the water hits them, they get erect, the montgomery glands immediately make an appearance, and a light discharge shows at the tips of both nipples. It isn't enough to drip down, it just kinda shows up at the tip until I am done. Then, it seems to stop. When they get erect, the tips get pinkish red while the actual nipples remain the normal light brown color, except with overactive montgomery glands.

Any ideas?

Well, they called back with all my test results, and perhaps I should be happy, but I am more confused - everything came back negative except the yeast infection, which was treated there while I was home. They checked my prolactin, but it was at the right level - something like 0.8 or whatever they said is normal. No STDs, they mentioned a false positive for herpes or I think they did, and I did a double take, but I don't have herpes.

So all they came up with was strep, AKA yeast infection. Which has been treated. I had never mentioned the dry skin to them, and wonder if I should. But that isn't really something a gyno would know, at least it doesn't seem like their specialty. But at least the yeast infection seems better - I mean, the discharge seems to have almost decreased entirely. But the dry skin still remains. Le sigh. Perhaps stress really did kill me.