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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.

OP posts:
Laurawhitty94 · 24/09/2025 16:21

BauhausOfEliott · 24/09/2025 15:42

Men can also get thrush under the foreskin. Are you 100% sure the pessary was ‘used’ as in the tablet’s empty wrapping was there and there was no pessary in the applicator? Because I’d have thought the most likely explanation was that he wanted the cream and bought the combi pack by mistake.

If he was having an affair, it seems tremendously unlikely that his other woman would be a) using a thrush pessary in his car and b) leaving it there. That’s really not a thing that any woman would do.

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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ScupperedbytheSea · 24/09/2025 16:18

Fucking hell. I mean he might be having an affair, who knows, but a used vaginal pessary is still baffling.

I mean, 'hold on a minute love, I've just gotta shove this cannestan pessary up me vag before we get going' doesn't exactly scream sexytime does it?

cestlavielife · 24/09/2025 16:18

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 vaginal pessary work on a male for athletes foot??? Mind boggling

BillStickersWillBeProsocuted · 24/09/2025 16:16

I think "man buys slightly wrong product for his athletes foot" is more likely than "woman applies thrush medication in her boyfriends car and then leaves the used pessary in the glovebox". Especially when you add into the mix he might have been embarred and rushing when he bought it

People are suggesting it was deliberately left for OP to find, wouldn’t she leave a lacy thong or something rather than medical paraphernalia? You'd have to assume he would me more likely to find it there than the wife in his own glovebox

flopsyuk · 24/09/2025 16:16

Duplicate post sorry

Walkden · 24/09/2025 16:15

"Men can also get thrush under the foreskin"

This. The cream in these packs is twice as strong as off the shelf stuff.

It's possible he used the applicator with the cream bit and disposed of the pessary. Women's cream is often 20% strength. Pharmacists won't normally sell cream higher than 10% to men.

OrwellianTimes · 24/09/2025 16:15

FeralWoman · 24/09/2025 15:02

Do you have a teenage daughter @Laurawhitty94 ? That would the only other logical possibility.

No teenager is getting dad to buy one of those then using it in his car. EVER.

UpDownAllAround1 · 24/09/2025 16:12

Ask him

TheFormidableMrsC · 24/09/2025 16:10

I mean it’s possible he bought the pack in error but having been cheated on, I wouldn’t believe that bollocks.

Sera1989 · 24/09/2025 16:07

I agree with others that maybe he wanted it for the cream. Not beyond the realm of fantasy to think a man might have wanted to see what the applicator was. I’ve known a few who would probably think it’s to put the pessary tablet down their throat to swallow it 🤦‍♀️.
I can’t imagine many women in long term relationships would insert a pessary in the passenger seat, let alone a woman doing that in front of her affair partner - and then putting it in the glove box instead of a bag/bin. Would be very surprised if he doesn’t casually say he was using the cream himself

Loafbeginsat60 · 24/09/2025 15:57

I don't think it suggests cheating either. He's likely bought the wrong cream.

He wouldn't leave that in his car if he was up to no good, surely

But defo ask him - hey what's this I found in your glove box?!

BauhausOfEliott · 24/09/2025 15:42

Men can also get thrush under the foreskin. Are you 100% sure the pessary was ‘used’ as in the tablet’s empty wrapping was there and there was no pessary in the applicator? Because I’d have thought the most likely explanation was that he wanted the cream and bought the combi pack by mistake.

If he was having an affair, it seems tremendously unlikely that his other woman would be a) using a thrush pessary in his car and b) leaving it there. That’s really not a thing that any woman would do.

Cardinalita90 · 24/09/2025 15:38

Don't start the mental gymnastics some posters are coming up with (athletes foot?!). It's a pessary for a vagina. It hasn't gone up yours so just ask him straight out.

As others say, don't be tempted to fill the silence. Wait him out. And if he gives you an obvious baloney story ask to see his phone.

Noshadowsinthedark · 24/09/2025 15:35

Oh OP. I always say don’t jump to conclusions but at a loss with this one.

Sending strength.

Babyenroute · 24/09/2025 15:33

This sounds weird but was it definately used? Or did he get the box with the pessary and maybe just used the cream on himself?

didntlikeanyofthesuggestions · 24/09/2025 15:31

The13thFairy · 24/09/2025 14:43

It is a pessary. Which goes in a vagina. How could you possibly think it would be any good for feet? Really, I despair.

I missed that bit 😳

I was trying to give him the benefit of the doubt but......

FairyBatman · 24/09/2025 15:29

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?

You cannot treat athletes foot with a pessary 🤣

LadyLolaRuben · 24/09/2025 15:21

I know a few men who have developed thrush on their skin from sweating at the gym, that's been resolved with cream.

Im so sorry OP but its very likely another woman has been intimately involved with your husband. If he's turned off his location, that supports the possibility he's cheating. Have you noticed anything else different with him recently?

If its another woman leaving a calling card...jesus, she could have left a lipstick the filthy cow. I'd be getting myself checked out for STIs to be on the safe side.

Im sorry OP. From someone who has been cheated on, stay cool even though you're raging. Think about the end game and what you want from this and work towards that.

Take care x

ButSheSaid · 24/09/2025 15:16

If that's your full name and year of birth as your username OP you might want to get the thread deleted, you could repost it under a more anonymous username.

@ItsFridayIminLoveJS OP wrote it's the vaginal pessary that's used.

ItsFridayIminLoveJS · 24/09/2025 15:10

If it's the pessary that's left.. maybe he's just used the cream for jock itch if he's a gym goer?
My ex used it for that.
But didn't buy the combi.. maybe your husband bought the combi by mistake.

FeralWoman · 24/09/2025 15:02

Do you have a teenage daughter @Laurawhitty94 ? That would the only other logical possibility.

PinkyFlamingo · 24/09/2025 15:02

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?

A vaginal pessary is not used to treat athletes foot.

allthemiddlechildrenoftheworld · 24/09/2025 15:01

no one holds a vaginal pessary between their toes!! how can people be so dense!! no vagina- no pessary needed!

allthemiddlechildrenoftheworld · 24/09/2025 15:00

@Laurawhitty94 well he doesnt have a vagina so there is no way it belongs to him and if it doesnt belong to his wife then the only other alternative is that it belongs to his girlfriend. no one carries a used applicator around and given given that it has been inserted, it is safe to presume that it has be inserted in your dh car!!!