How can my daughter treat her yeast infection?

[Anonymous]

Is there some anxiety or mental health stuff going on? I feel like there is something else that needs to be addressed.

I don’t like doctors (I’ve had a lot of chronic issues with misdiagnoses) so I’m all about trying home remedies first, but especially for a YI, it’s an easy diagnosis and an easy fix. Waiting or using the wrong thing is only going to make it worse.

[Anonymous]

And remind her for next month: No dong in the birth canal while Aunt Flo is in town.

[Anonymous]

Monistat 3 or 7.

If that does not help then she should go to the Dr, regardless of pride.

[Anonymous]

OP. She doesn’t have a phobia, she just has other reasons why she refuses to see the doctor. I’m sure it’s not anything super dangerous, and she’ll be fine. She knows the risks, and is willing to risk it. She doesn’t care. I can’t keep telling her to go to the doctor when she asks for advice. She gets irritated and tells me to stop, shut up, and leave her alone. She does now know that she shouldn’t take Ketoconazole, or any other cream we have at home. She’s just now choosing to do nothing.

And I’m hesitating buying OTC medication. I’m worried about buying the “wrong one”, and her refusing to use it. It also seems like the desirables ones are always unavailable or out of stock near us, and she’s not willing to drive to other stores.

[Anonymous]

I am 54 and when i suspected a yeast infection, I went to GYN. They swabbed. Tested for 3 non STI related things.

Got an oral prescription for yeast infection.

I am worried for your daughter. She needs to be able to get treatment.

[Anonymous]

18 does not make someone an adult. Especially acting as she is.

Adults seek appropriate help.

[Anonymous]

Why does daughter hate doctors?

[Anonymous]

Ivermectin

[Anonymous]

^ Can save a few bucks if you get it from your vet. It's the same stuff.

[Anonymous]

I had a yeast infection once in my life when I was about 23. I just about went insane. I also didn’t go to the doctor. I got Monostat at CVS. It worked perfectly.

OP, let her figure it out. Just leave it alone. She’ll do what she needs to do eventually.

[Anonymous]

I cannot imagine how severe her doctor issues must be if she is willing to suffer through a burning itch in her vag. When I had them, I would have sold my soul to make it go away. I’m really concerned about your daughters unwillingness to seek apppropriate medical care and I’m also concerned about your anxiety over buying the “wrong” oTc when they are labeled as clearly as possible and any pharmacist at cvs would be happy to confirm for you that you are buying th right thing.

[Anonymous]

What is she going to do when she gets an STD? Or when she’s pregnant?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP. She doesn’t have a phobia, she just has other reasons why she refuses to see the doctor. I’m sure it’s not anything super dangerous, and she’ll be fine. She knows the risks, and is willing to risk it. She doesn’t care. I can’t keep telling her to go to the doctor when she asks for advice. She gets irritated and tells me to stop, shut up, and leave her alone. She does now know that she shouldn’t take Ketoconazole, or any other cream we have at home. She’s just now choosing to do nothing.

And I’m hesitating buying OTC medication. I’m worried about buying the “wrong one”, and her refusing to use it. It also seems like the desirables ones are always unavailable or out of stock near us, and she’s not willing to drive to other stores.

Your daughter is behaving in a very disordered way. If this was my daughter, I would be FAR from convinced that it's nothing to worry about. When you suggest that she do something normal to fix this problem, she gets really reactive - telling your mother to "shut up" for recommending a health and safety thing is a really distorted, disordered, unhealthy way of responding to the situation.

Choosing to do nothing to fix a medical problem you know you have is also unhealthy and disordered. It may be a matter of maturity, but YOU seem to think that doing nothing and letting her make bad choices is the best call here. At the very least, consider telling her "this is a bad call" and letting her make the bad call described as such. Posting for 7 pages arguing with everyone who has suggested a reasonable solution and suggesting that your daughter should be left alone to make bad decisions does not speak well of your parenting or judgment yourself.

If my teen daughter had a problem in her reproductive system that she was unwilling to seek help for, unwilling to talk about, and wanted to treat with crazy, secretive means - I would be concerned about her health and safety. I would be concerned that this is a STI and not "a yeast infection." You say your daughter has not been sexually active so that's not possible. It sounds like there are a lot of things she's not telling you, and I would not be so confident that my kid was safe and healthy if she was being this secretive and reactive.

[Anonymous]

You absolutely CAN keep telling her to go to the doctor when she asks for advice. Tell her that is the only advice you can give, because that is the only sane thing to do, and if she's not going to do it, she should stop bugging you about it. She's being silly, and there's no reason to pretend there is some other, better advice more to her liking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP. She’s never been sexually active before so it can’t be an STD, and she doesn’t want a prescription or over the counter medication. She wants a home remedy.

Former prosecutor here lost count of the number of young women and girls who lost their virginity and didn’t tell their parents - whether they lost it by consensual sexual contact or otherwise.


Don’t mess around with vaginal infections, don’t let your daughter. If there is any possibility she wants to have children in the future, she needs to get medical attention when there is infection down there.

Figure out why the GYN makes her so anxious she doesn’t want to go, and find her a GYN who doesn’t make her feel that way.