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Husband vaginal thrush treatment?

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Laurawhitty94 · 24/09/2025 13:58

Hi all, wondering if you can help me with this…
I haven’t spoken to him about this yet because I’d like to actually know what you guys would do because I am rather impulsive and I am a little dramatic as well.

This morning I went to my husbands car to grab some ibuprofen out of his glove box ,I knew he had some because he keeps it for the gym and things. However I found a used vaginal thrush pessary (the rubbish) in the glovebox.

I haven’t had thrush recently. He hasn’t mentioned having it and that’s exactly the type of thing he would mention to me ,he’s not shy or anything but also why would he use a vaginal thrush medicine anyway? It was the combo one , the cream and the pill kind.

I'm very confused and anxious. Could it be that he is seeing a woman or am I jumping the gun ? Why on earth would he have that in his car and am I wrong to have looked in the glove box without telling him I’m gonna go to his car ?

How do I bring this up exactly with him.
We also have the life 360 app for the kids and he has had his location off for weeks now and I just assumed he had location off in general but now I’m thinking maybe he could be seeing someone ?

I don’t know. Please let me know what you’d say and do. Am I being dramatic or could this be a clue that he’s cheating which I’m kinda feeling like it is right now.

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Greysowhat · 27/09/2025 09:25

Still though, it kept me entertained for a few moments!

Not least the notion of the husband sticking the pessary up his bum! 😅

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Reachedtheend · 26/09/2025 14:38

mrsrednose · 26/09/2025 12:08

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Seems like all the most intriguing ones aren't!

mrsrednose · 26/09/2025 12:08

Tink3rbell30 · 26/09/2025 12:06

Assume this post wasn't real?

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Tink3rbell30 · 26/09/2025 12:06

Assume this post wasn't real?

Greysowhat · 26/09/2025 05:53

What the story OP??? Did he swallow the pessary???

petergriffinsdeadfrog · 25/09/2025 23:58

So OP hasn’t been back?

aperollingintotheweekend · 25/09/2025 23:55

I’m invested now. Surely this has to be a wind up! All the ‘plausible’ explanations are quite bat shit 🤣🤣 how feral for any female to do that in his car.. but also how extremely weird for him to be bumbling around with it too…

has he been sketchy or suspicious in any other ways?

bumbaloo · 25/09/2025 23:18

The intentional turning off of his Life360 location is pretty telling.

Noshadowsinthedark · 25/09/2025 22:49

itsallabitofamystery · 25/09/2025 16:19

Did OP ever come back?

No. It might be one of the many MN mysteries.

itsallabitofamystery · 25/09/2025 16:19

Did OP ever come back?

Greysowhat · 25/09/2025 13:00

LegoPicnic · 25/09/2025 12:06

C. Husband is the user of the pessary and this could be a genuine medical reason such as an allergy like myself had above or even diabetes and maybe your husband could be worried and didn’t want to worry you.

A genuine medical reason like he’s suddenly grown a vagina?

Well there is surgery nowadays !

LegoPicnic · 25/09/2025 12:06

C. Husband is the user of the pessary and this could be a genuine medical reason such as an allergy like myself had above or even diabetes and maybe your husband could be worried and didn’t want to worry you.

A genuine medical reason like he’s suddenly grown a vagina?

SnakesandKnives · 25/09/2025 11:42

ReceiveIt · 25/09/2025 10:01

I did exactly that. Asked for oral thrush treatment on holiday and the Greek pharmacist gave me the suppository. I opened the blister pack and thought 'wow, thats a huge pill' and swallowed it anyway. The fizzing in my throat and then the discovery of the applicator made me realise just how stupid I am.

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Shouldn’t laughter but 😂😂. Did it have any ongoing negative effects out of interest?

I really struggle to believe that a woman would do that in the car full stop, let alone an affair partners car. That just seems so grim and unlikely

a man buying the wrong thing for an ‘intimate area’ problem…..that I can much more easily see

still, it’s a weird old world. I very much hope the OP does ask him and tells us the outcome!

TallulahBetty · 25/09/2025 11:31

What happened, OP? Did you confront him?

Isthereanotherplanettoinhabit · 25/09/2025 11:09

Wreckinball · 25/09/2025 10:48

A wider thought- do you have any DC teenagers? Could it belong to one of them?
Get into the bank account, examine the washing for perfume, other washing powder, hair, make up. Get an STD test, consider all other options before asking him/ showing him the glove box contents

Yes do all this before asking him. Don’t forwarn him with a photo, give him a chance to explain himself face to face. I suspect that OP already suspects him of something though, quite apart from the Life360, because of going to check his car for Ibuprofen. We have ibuprofen all over the house but I appreciate not everybody does

Wreckinball · 25/09/2025 10:48

A wider thought- do you have any DC teenagers? Could it belong to one of them?
Get into the bank account, examine the washing for perfume, other washing powder, hair, make up. Get an STD test, consider all other options before asking him/ showing him the glove box contents

Clychaugog · 25/09/2025 10:40

Bum thrush is a thing.

3luckystars · 25/09/2025 10:30

I also had the pharmacist give me canesten for a patch of skin in my arm. It can be for many things.

But seriously though, what man would go in and buy this without even mentioning it to their wife. There is another woman.

Survivingnotthriving24 · 25/09/2025 10:25

I think him taking the pessary as a tablet by mistake/opening it to see what it was is much more likely than an affair partner inserting a pessary to treat thrush in his car or leaving the packaging and applicator behind.

viques · 25/09/2025 10:23

didntlikeanyofthesuggestions · 24/09/2025 14:18

I wouldn't assume the worst. It can be used to treat various fungal infections. Does he have athletes foot?

How would you apply a vaginal pessary to your foot? Sellotape or string?

Plumedenom · 25/09/2025 10:10

Confront him.
I think it's definitely another woman, and they've been seeing each other a while. They've had sex and she's got thrush and probably the sex has made the thrush much worse. She's asked him to stop somewhere for the treatment. He stepped out the car a moment while she was sorting herself out. She "binned" the rubbish in the glove compartment while your husband was waiting outside the car so he didn't even realise she put it there. She forgot she'd put it there as it's not her car and her problem was sorted.

PumpkinsAndCoconuts · 25/09/2025 10:04

mumuseli · 25/09/2025 09:51

I always thought (from what I’ve read on the Canesten website when I’ve needed treatment) that the cream just relieves the symptoms but doesn’t actually cure it. But that’s useful to know it helped clear it for you. I’ve got an opened tube left from when I just used a bit as part of the combo …have wondered how long the cream keeps when opened, ie if it’s worth saving for future use.

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Hm? I don’t think so.

my old gyno gave me canesten (just the cream) to clear up a yeast infection when I was about… 19? It worked perfectly well.

According to the information I’m looking at (on their website, in German) the cream is antimyoticc and may be used to treat skin and foot fungus, tinea inguinalis /jock itch, foot fungus and apparently also fungal diaper inflammation. It should “hinder the growth of fungi, destroy them and improve symptoms” <= translated from German.

Canesten® Creme zur Behandlung von Haut- und Fusspilz ist ein Antimykotikum, welches das Wachstum der Pilze hemmt, sie vernichtet und die Symptome lindert. Rezeptfrei erhältlich zur Selbstbehandlung.

But I’m guessing it might not be as efficient / might not work for severe cases? Edit: or there might be different formulations.

BirdShedRevisited · 25/09/2025 10:03

Laurawhitty94 · 24/09/2025 16:21

Yes the empty blister pack was there but no pill and the applicator was just right there with it ,yikes. Sort of realising that if this is an affair they’re obviously pretty close!

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Could you turn the tracker app back on on his phone?

ReceiveIt · 25/09/2025 10:01

sellotapechicken · 24/09/2025 17:36

I’m gonna throw this out there. Has he taken the tablet orally out of stupidity ? (Weirder things have happened )

I did exactly that. Asked for oral thrush treatment on holiday and the Greek pharmacist gave me the suppository. I opened the blister pack and thought 'wow, thats a huge pill' and swallowed it anyway. The fizzing in my throat and then the discovery of the applicator made me realise just how stupid I am.

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