My vagina is on fire !! Help

[Iamembarrassed]

Not literally you understand but more of omg it's beyond ridiculous type pain.
I have just finished a course of antibiotics/painkillers and got what I thought was thrush so brought some canesten and thought that would do it, however it has done nothing and i have the most intense itching/pressure/feeling like I've had intense sex/burning feeling that is going no where!
I have slept with a ice pack in between my legs and have seriously contemplated putting Ice in my vagina at this point.

Any solutions wise mumsnetters ... there are no doctors appointments for 4 days, no walk in clinic nearby and the pharmacist said they weren't sure as they can't examine me ... if I have to last four days like this I may kill someone

Did you test for BV?

@Iamembarrassed - how did you tell someone that the yogurt was going up your foof?

thats really funny!

wintercookie probably the usual yoghurt aisle chit chat.

"Those muller corners are nice aren't they?"

"Who cares I'm only buying this stuff to shove up my sore fanny."

Acidophilus is an excellent idea. I haven't had to have antibiotics for years, but they always gave me thrush until I started taking acidophilus when I started taking the antibiotics.

@IWouldLikeToSeeTheseMangoes i shouldnt be laughing but i am, they should do a small selection under the name of "vaginal fungal remedies"

Just take the oral pill. You can buy over the counter. It should work effectively and quickly.

Sounds more like a herpes infection than thrush with the symptoms you are describing. I'd visit a GUM clinic

No I didn't test for bv because the test was £13 and then the meds were £14 and so far I have spent a small fortune on my vagina over the last four days !!

As for shouting at the woman in Tesco, I was there minding my own business looking for live yoghurt and a old woman decided she would like to talk me into buying a different yoghurt because the one I was buying wasn't as tasty as the one she recommended apparently and why would I waste my money on the one I picked when the one she was recommending was cheaper and tastier and after making general noises about looking for something specific she wouldn't shut up about how it tasted nicer and so I said I didn't care about taste as it was going in my vagina ! In my defence in on day four of this and I'm never going back to Tesco again ... also the calpol I brought for the syringe didn't have one in to top off my day

Right. Stop shoving stuff up your la la and get to a sexual health clinic tomorrow. Don't bother with the GP as they will probably refer you on.
I had exactly these symptoms. My biggest fear was herpes but tbh I'd have even been relieved at that such was the pain (just so I knew what I was dealing with)
It turned out to be vulval dermatitis. No soap (aqueous cream) and lidocaine. It stings like hell upon application but it will then give blessed relief.

Sounds like an infection I once had was called something like streptococcal infection.

Stick a thrush pessary up there , wash with lukewarm salt water then smother in natural yogurt

I wouldn't stick anything up there till you know what it is. Canesten actually worsened mine.

Can you not see a nurse at the doctors instead of a gp? I had this and the nurse said it was down to hormonal imbalance and the more you itch it the more it will itch. You get into an itch scratch cycle. It itches you scratch it then It it ha moreao you scratch again then it itches even more! You get the gist. So try not to itch it. Ice packs on the vagina work but I wouldn't put anything up it. If you can't see a nurse go to sexual health clinic

Wtf is it ha moreao 😂 Meant to say itches more

I agree with the stop sticking stuff up!

You don't know what is wrong, so how can you know how to treat it?

wintercookie it would be a popular aisle And might stop all those stupid adverts where people eat yoghurt so good they appear to be in a state of sexual excitement!

This thread also reminds me of that episode of SATC where Charlotte goes to the gynaecologist and is told she has some sort of condition which means her vagina is depressed. Apologies OP do genuinely sympathise hope you're on the mend soon!

Having been in your shoes I would go to a gum clinic for help. Last year I had thrush so badly all the skin on my labia split and it was agony. The nurse confirmed it was thrush ( because I was starting to wonder what the hell it was) and they prescribed the oral capsules, but one every three days for about ten days. Finally it bloody cleared up. I've completely revised my underwear drawer/ soaps and washing powders since.

1% hydrocortisone cream has helped me before now. Any supermarket or chemist. Helps agonising piles too. Poor me.

I am evangelical about acidophilus. I take it if on antibiotics/have thrush.

I had an attack that sounds like what you are describing years ago. Went to doctor, and gad STD check just in case, as it was so awful. Had three or four goes with pessaries/cream, and no change.

Acidophilus was suggested and I took a massive dose the first few days, then reduced till the bottle ended. Worked very quickly. Also sitz baths, and yoghurt inserted via tampon applicator, with maybe a drop of either tea tree or lavender oil.

It isn't cheap, but Holland and Barrett often have offers on, and if you compare to what you have already spent, and hasn't worked, is well worth it.

Get yourself an oral treatment thrush pill. On the rare occasions I've had thrush,they are the only thing that really works. Relief within 12 -18 hours. And you don't need a prescription. I think Tesco do an own brand one that is cheaper than the brand name Canesten one. Don't bother with Boots,they charge the earth.

OP, I'm not surprised your foof is angry - I'd be angry too if someone kept smothering me in random shite and making me into an orifice dip!

You'll be popping back to Tesco to get a new foof at this rate...

I assume I am right in thinking you have already used Canesten.
Don't use anymore!
Try and be seen asap by a medical professional.
Meanwhile buy some hydrocortisone cream which, in a low percentage,
you can buy over the counter. This might help calm down the burning.
Don't start putting any other rubbish up there. If you are going to be examined, the D.r needs to be able to see what's going on.

And posters are still telling you to put stuff up there? It'll be coconut water next.
Its not a GUM clinic or STD clinic anymore its something like Sexual and reproductive health. Staffed by people who know their onions (or foofs) inside out.

Don't you know anybody with a young child who is likely to have Calpol, and therefore a stock of syringes, in the house? I know that I have half a dozen, and I even gave one to the neighbour about a year ago - now I am wondering whether she needed it for her foof!