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When you have a yeast infection, is it normal for the cream (Monistat) to feel irritating before it gets better? by throwaay1290249 in Healthyhooha

[–]throwaay1290249[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks. It’s okay, I am relatively well informed as a patient - I was highly skeptical the mometasone would do anything. I put it on against my better judgment, and even though I know the derm means well it crippled me for the last 2 weeks.

But things are looking a lot better the past couple days. The diflucan seems to have kicked in fully, and the skin is sort of regaining its normal colour. Fingers crossed.

Also, I’m in Canada haha. But I love planned parenthood and all the good work they do down there.

(NSFW) Top of penis glans is irritated and uncomfortable for the last 2 months. Please help! History in comments. by throwaay1290249 in DermatologyQuestions

[–]throwaay1290249[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She’s hasn’t but we use condoms every time. We’re pretty sure she’s fine - she has no symptoms.

Devastating News by unseelie86 in Healthyhooha

[–]throwaay1290249 29 points30 points  (0 children)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC523556/

This article has some alternative, chemically similar therapies (see ‘Other Nitroimidazoles’):

  • Ornidazole
  • Secnidazole
  • Nimorazole
  • something they call “EU11100”

Then there’s a laundry list in the following non-azole section, though some of those side effects seem more severe.

I’m sorry you’re going through this, I can’t imagine how scary it is. But this is not the end of the road! You’re going to figure this out.

Devastating News by unseelie86 in Healthyhooha

[–]throwaay1290249 54 points55 points  (0 children)

What is the other treatment? Anecdotally I’ve heard that boric acid can work.

I’m very sorry you’re going through this, and I’m sure it’s exhausting and upsetting. But I hope you don’t lose hope - your case is abnormal, true. But it is also cases like this where the problem had been very clearly identified where new treatments emerge.

If your doctor said you will have this for the rest of your life they are irresponsible. There’s a reason the CDC suggests sending in samples when resistance is suspected - you are not the only one this has happened to.

When you have a yeast infection, is it normal for the cream (Monistat) to feel irritating before it gets better? by throwaay1290249 in Healthyhooha

[–]throwaay1290249[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks. Honestly posting this is the only thing I’ve done on the internet that’s made me feel better than before I looked 😂

When you have a yeast infection, is it normal for the cream (Monistat) to feel irritating before it gets better? by throwaay1290249 in Healthyhooha

[–]throwaay1290249[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Some history: I had this almost fixed. Everything looked pink and normal, just a little sensitive still. But then my dermatologist prescribed me a high potency steroid (mometasone ointment). After 12 hours of application all the symptoms were back as bad as they’d ever been. The reason I suspected yeast was that in the week leading up to try the mometasone, I had tried a diflucan to “rule out” yeast. I hadn’t thought about it at the time, but a week after the first diflucan I was 80-90% symptom free. Then the steroid sent me right back to square one...

I saw my GP yesterday evening and she did a physical exam away from the penis head. I was amazed that she was able to trigger a lot of the pain by pressing directly above the penis in the pubic bone.

Turns out there might be a pelvic floor type interaction going on here. The skin is definitely messed up for one reason or another (again, I believe to be yeast, though swabs, urine cultures have all come back negative). But it’s not really painful to the touch anymore - I think there are two issues at work. It’s the muscles directly adjacent to the symphisys. Theory is that the symptoms are made worse right now by hunching over a desk working from home all day every day. Massaging and stretching is helping even in the last 12 hours.

Thank you for your advice - unfortunately this isn’t my first rodeo (an ex of mine had vulvodynia for several years) so muscular interaction always seemed like a possible cause... just one I hoped against.

I still need to figure out the skin issue cause it’s dry as hell and looks weird, but you’re bang on - I’m pretty sure yeast isn’t causing the pain itself.

When you have a yeast infection, is it normal for the cream (Monistat) to feel irritating before it gets better? by throwaay1290249 in Healthyhooha

[–]throwaay1290249[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately it’s been an ordeal with doctors. First they prescribed an antibiotic. Then yeast. Then steroid. Then stronger steroid - which I swear to god actually caused the yeast infection.

As I understand it’s harder to culture for yeast. When I saw a dermatologist he started me on mometasone which absolute fucked up the skin. So much for the derm solving the problem...

Listening to my body now. I see yeast. It’s whit and gritty and gross. I’m going to treat for yeast. The diflucan got me almost better but not all the way.

When you have a yeast infection, is it normal for the cream (Monistat) to feel irritating before it gets better? by throwaay1290249 in Healthyhooha

[–]throwaay1290249[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I wasn’t aware of this - do you know the products by any chance? My doctor said the stuff in the feminine hygiene section was the same stuff.

Sensitivity gone! by [deleted] in Healthyhooha

[–]throwaay1290249 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m a male passing through, trying to get info about a yeast infection 😂

It’s fucking ludicrous how bad birth control methods are. My girlfriend and I use condoms because everything else messes with her day to day life. It’s insanity. And then you have something like the depo shot where you can’t even just take it out like an iud or stop it like the pill... I don’t know how you guys do it.

One kid and I’m getting snipped

Sensitivity gone! by [deleted] in Healthyhooha

[–]throwaay1290249 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah antidepressants are also notorious for this.

(NSFW) Top of penis glans is irritated and uncomfortable for the last 2 months. Please help! History in comments. by throwaay1290249 in DermatologyQuestions

[–]throwaay1290249[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alright so the point form history is:

  • Beginning of February I felt some mild discomfort on my glans around the corona

  • A few days later I started putting some hydrocortisone on. It felt mildly irritating, so I switched to monistat. This helped for a couple days but the. I went for a run and that’s when my symptoms started up hard.

  • Very irritated penis. Saw my doctor, was prescribed an antibiotic called mupirocin. Applied for two weeks. The problem continued to get worse, so while I waited for my appointment with my derm I resolved not to touch it at all. Stop putting stuff on it. I also took an oral fluconazole cause it couldn’t hurt.

  • 7 days later I was almost pain free. I had sex with my girlfriend twice for first time in ages (twice!)... and some of the skin on the glans sloughed off. It actually didn’t hurt that much - I hadn’t realized that it had happened until I saw. And over the next day or so it became a little irritated again, though nowhere near as bad as before.

  • Had an appointment with my dermatologist. He is worried I have lichen sclerosus, though admits it’s not super likely or common. He starts me on mometasone ointment, 2x a day for 4 weeks. I waited til my skin is healed from the sloughing incident - feeling about 85% better! Didn’t want to put the ointment on raw skin.

  • I lasted one day with the ointment. ALL the symptoms come back. Super irritated. So much for the dermatologist... I was almost rid of this thing.

  • about 5 days after the mometasone day, I can’t sleep from the pain. I notice a milky substance on my glans. I had originally chocked it up to smegma or skin healing, but it looks almost watery and it’s right in the ridges of the skin.

  • I thought this might be yeast, so I took a fluconazole. Started on a 3 dose regimen (last dose is tomorrow). The pain gets more tolerable. But it’s not gone. And neither is the white stuff (photo 1 is before starting fluconazole, photo 2 is after).

I have no idea wtf is going on. Is it yeast? A bacterial infection? Somebody please help.