Yeast infections are the worst. The worst, I tell you.
I'm not at all a fan of the yeast infection medication; I sort of suspect that it's The Pharmaceutical Man trying to make lots of money off of women in a vulnerable position, but mostly it makes me upset because I used it once and I thought I was going to die. Things you put up your delicate and precious flower should not bubble and burn and make you want to cry.
Also, I sort of worry that what the inserts do is kill of EVERYTHING in your vagina, which left me getting another infection because I didn't have any bacteria left to defend my cooter. Er. (These things are so difficult to talk about without getting silly!)
Yogurt is the ticket, so you're halfway there. Some tips I have gleaned from my lady friends:
If you freeze some yogurt in something like the finger of a glove or in a tampon-insert-tube-thing, it makes it easier to put in *and* the coolness eases the BURNS LIKE FIRE.
Drug stores or health stores will probably sell acidophilus (sp?) pills, which, as I understand it, are the same things that are in yogurt, only more concentrated, so you could try inserting those.
And you can use some regular anti-itch for the exterior itchiness. Between that and the yogurt, you'll be right as rain in no time, but you have my sympathies. There's just something very *wrong* about feeling horrible in your personal area. Sigh.
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Yeast infections are the worst. The worst, I tell you.
I'm not at all a fan of the yeast infection medication; I sort of suspect that it's The Pharmaceutical Man trying to make lots of money off of women in a vulnerable position, but mostly it makes me upset because I used it once and I thought I was going to die. Things you put up your delicate and precious flower should not bubble and burn and make you want to cry.
Also, I sort of worry that what the inserts do is kill of EVERYTHING in your vagina, which left me getting another infection because I didn't have any bacteria left to defend my cooter. Er. (These things are so difficult to talk about without getting silly!)
Yogurt is the ticket, so you're halfway there. Some tips I have gleaned from my lady friends:
If you freeze some yogurt in something like the finger of a glove or in a tampon-insert-tube-thing, it makes it easier to put in *and* the coolness eases the BURNS LIKE FIRE.
Drug stores or health stores will probably sell acidophilus (sp?) pills, which, as I understand it, are the same things that are in yogurt, only more concentrated, so you could try inserting those.
And you can use some regular anti-itch for the exterior itchiness. Between that and the yogurt, you'll be right as rain in no time, but you have my sympathies. There's just something very *wrong* about feeling horrible in your personal area. Sigh.