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[quote=Anonymous][quote=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. [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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