Thread: Yeast infection?

If it's not too bad, use baking soda in the bathtub. Put it in the water, and make a little paste out of it.
I get really minor yeast infections all the time, (mostly from that dumb underwear that I'm throwing away now!!) and thats what I do. It burns, but that's just the pH changing in your vulva. Don't put it into your vagina, though.
And don't overdo it, either ... or else you can get into a ping-pong game with UTI's and yeast infections, back and forth >.< It stinks; it only happened to me while on birth control pills, but it was an experience not worth repeating.

Yogurt with L. acidophilius or acidophilius pills also help. Warning: they may make you, um, gassy. But that helps balance the pH in your vag. Or your doctor can just call in a Diflucan pill, two pills, actually. You take one on day one and the other one on day four.

I am PLAGUED by yeast infectins exactly eight days before my period for at least six or seven months out of the last year. Its making me nuts.

But my regular doc always gives me a Diflucan script if she's giving me antibiotics because she said it happens to most women.

That's funny Little mentioned the baking soda thing; my best friend says she makes the paste in the bath whenever she has a little itch and she has only had one yeast infection in her whole life.

hello .i had a lot of trouble with yeist infection a few years ago. i dont want to scare you but you realy should have it checked by a doctor.i did and it turned out to be caused by cancer cells.and they calt it early.and im fine now .

I was plagued with what I thought was yeast infections for a year. It was a cycle of mensturating/yeast. I did all the homeopathic stuff...yogourt inserted (ahhh, the relief!), but it always came back. It wasn't itchy, and I didn't even have the classic coloured discharge. But my undies were always "wet." Clear discharge all the time.
I saw several docs who assured me they could "see" the yeast and always prescribed the same stuff. Finally, one doc said he'd check for gardnerella (bacteria) as it sometimes mimics yeast. Sure enough. Went on a cycle of antibiotics and didn't have a problem for another 20 years.
Good luck. What looks and acts like yeast isn't always. MAKE your doctors check for bacterial too!