Yeast Infection? Herpes? I'm Confused..plz Answer Asap =(

Have you gone to the doctor??

I actually haven't been able to. My mom has no money to take me, and i've been really worried about it. But I know she can't do it, and I don't know any of my friends who could take me to planned parenthood for a test.

You can't go by yourself? It really sounds like you need to be seen by a doc.

Well, i'm only 16. And I have no car. I wish I could go alone, but there's no way I can.

Is the bus or a taxi an option for you?

I totally agree with the others you most definately need to be seen by a physican. You may only be 16, but wise enough to know if this is something serious, the longer you put it off the worse its gonna be. There has to be someonethat can take you to a free clinic, not surew here you are, but I do know there are local health departments that base the fees on your income. It sounds as though you have herpes or genital warts, although I am not a physican, I do know you aren't suppose to be broken out and itchy at 16 years old. Please find a way to get yourself checked out!

Yeah i'm searching desperately for someone who can take me. I think i'm going to save up for awhile, and see if my friend's mother who's known me for awhile can take me to planned parenthood in raleigh to get checked out if I give her the gas money. I have no idea what this could be other then herpes or genital warts or something. I know that most people who talk about their herpes outbreaks talk about how unbearable they are, and it confuses me because what i'm going through right now can be annoying at times but it's certainly not unbearable. It's actually easy for me to ignore sometimes and I have no problem moving around or anything. There's been pain urinating a few times, but this has been going on ever since christmas until now when it's still going on and nothing has really gotten better or worse, it's just kind of stayed steady. I want to get looked at by someone very soon. It does sound a lot like herpes to me from what i've heard, other than this unbearable pain and the fact that it's gone on for a long period of time. Other people say it could be bad thrush or something but I think in this situation and with the symptoms i'm having it's more likely to be herpes than an infection. Either way, I try to find some way to look on the bright side, such as i'd rather be worrying about herpes than about aids or hiv or something. But I do know that it's not normal for someone as young as me to be going through this and I want to get looked at asap. Even if it is herpes, I don't want to tell my mom yet. I want to wait for the right time to tell her. She's a very strict person and we're going through a rough family time and I think it's better for both of us if I wait for the right time to tell her about it. Hopefully everything goes well, if anyone else has any sort of information please inform me. And thank the both of you very much for responding to me =)

Is there not anywhere closer than raleigh that you can go? I thought every county had a clinic. Here in georgia, you could go to planned parenthood and your mother would not know. Being a mother myself to a 23 year old, I do understand where you are coming from, afraid and not waanting ot tell you mother. Family crisis, I totally understand, but on the other hand, i'd want you to tell me if you were my daughter so that I could take you and take care of you...............Just promise to take care of yourself!

I really think that it's a bad yeast infection. You can go buy monistat or canesten, the 3 day packs. You would definitely not have been able to stand herpes this long dear, trust me, after a couple days you would have considered the emergency room.
I truly think it's a yeast infection, and they don't go away without treatment. You can just go buy a 3 day pack as a drug store. It really helps and there are creams to stop the irritation and itching.

I was already looking for emergency room on day2!!!!

There are over the counter meds for yeast infections, but it is not recommended that women take them unless they have actually been diagnosed with a yeast infection by a doctor. So either way, keep trying to get into that doctor! Good luck!

Thank you all soooo much. I'm really hoping that it's just a yeast infection or maybe just something else that I can get rid of quickly. But I know of hardly anyone who could give me a ride to a clinic and it'd be pretty hard for me to convince my mom to let me take a bus alone somewhere haha. She always tries to be on top of what i'm doing. I was worried that maybe this was herpes that could have possibly provoked a yeast infection and that's why it's lasted so long, but I don't understand how herpes would have been this easy for me to deal with. The only time it felt even remotely painful was the first couple days that it started, and the day before my period this past time. And even then it didn't really feel like it was in pain it just felt sort of dry, itchy and irritated. Hopefully this is just a false alarm or something. Grrr haha. And of course I freaked out cause one of my friends was like "make sure that if it's herpes you keep your hands away from your eyes cause if herpes getsin your eyes it could make you go blinde." and then I really freaked out aha. But most people told me that even if it got in your eyes they doubt it could cause blindness. I'm just a very big worrier haha.