a sensetive health issue

[ernads]

i can't being myself to mail about it, since mail is more instrusive than DW. So, if I want to aske a question embarrasses me, I would rather use a post, and hide it under a cut - so that the reading of the qeustion will be entirly by choice and not land in Hagar's mailbox, for one.

So - here it is:

I noticed in the last two hours Brown discharge from the vagina. coupled with the inch and a sensation of burning sometimes, I think I might indeed have Fungus.

Now, it's an issue, since I can't yet penetrate the vagina with anything, and I am loth to go to a Gynecologist for a phsical examination, and I will not have time for it anyway those two weeks.



So, I need a mid-term solution, and maybe if I use the correct kind of washes and ointment it will improve. Any information from anyone who knows will be highly apprichated. I am not locking this down since I need the info - but that's why I used the cut.

Comments

[hagar_972]

Don't be an idiot and go straight to a GP.

[ernads]

My GP never impressed me with his knowledge. But if I will come with a name of a med he might give me one instead of sending me on. I think the old one gave me something that worked a few years back. Will try to remember the name.

[hagar_972]

Honey, this is not a case where you can dictate to the doctor what med to take. There are multiple possible kinds of infection, and I don't know the diagnosis decision tree here. It's a common enough issue.

I mean, you can wait three days and see if it goes away. Often enough it'll go away on its own. But in case it doesn't go away by then, you need to set up the physician appointment now. Infections are not to be fucked around with, definitely not infections that can get complicated if neglected.

It's probably not related to the skin situation you have going on, unless you've been messing around with that are so much that you gave yourself the infection.

Also, I don't like the idea of regular use of Bepanten in that area. Do limit that to the cream version, which is the burn-safe one and so less likely to make any potential infection worse. Also, if the skin is broken enough, Bepanten and Biafine won't make it itch less; all they'll do is reduce the risk of even more infection. (That's what they do for burns: reduce the risk of infection, since burns are super-susceptible.)

[ernads]

I made an appointent just now to the GP for Wednesday morning. And I think you are right that it's not related to the overall skin situation, since it feels different, and I was very carful not to use anything other than ALcum in the otehr areas, and only when needed, not every day.

As for Bepanten, it's the cream version indeed, I recalled that one from an IM talk we once had on this issue. And from what I feel there are might be some broken skin in the area. I will need to take a look - that's part of Homework anyway. WIll do so before the appintment and so be able to give a better picutre to the doc.

[ernads]

Ended up prefacing the GP appointment to tomorrow, cause now that I've actually seen the skin there am more worried than when I thought it's just a פטריה. Although I am not sure he will know what to do with it. But he might be able to say if the Alcum med is safe to use there, like it's on the neck and face.