MEMORIZE THE PACKAGING SO YOU MAKE SURE YOU NEVER BUY THIS CREAM FOR YOURSELF OR ANYONE YOU LOVE.
This post is about vaginas. My vagina in particular. I get yeast infections pretty regularly, and until recently I was able to afford to see a doctor who could prescribe me fluconazole.
Fluconazole, a drug also known by the brand name Diflucan, is a small pink pill. You take two pills a few days apart from each other to restore balance and harmony to your bountiful folds. I’ve never ever had a bad side effect from taking this pill.
Cut to November 2016. I’m a recent college grad without reliable health care coverage in the process of finding a job. And I’m dealing with a yeast infection. Before I moved out of state, my previous doctor told me about Miconazole. She said it was as effective as the pill and hallelujah, it’s over the counter! I decided to purchase the cream pictured above. This treatment only lasted 3 days, a convenient time frame for my schedule.
The application process was a little messy, and some of the cream came in contact with my vulva and labia. Within 5 minutes every piece of skin that had come in contact with the cream, excluding my hands, was on fire. I wanted to scream it was so painful. I began frantically searching for what I should do online.
I found a whole forum of people on drugs.com who had experienced something similar. These comments saved me, and these were just on the first page. There were 33 pages total, the earliest dated July 2009.
I was writhing in pain at 2AM when I found this forum (which I found by searching “my vagina burn itch hurts after miconazole” on Google). As soon as I read these comments I threw the devil cream directly into the trash and jumped in the shower. I didn’t feel any actual relief until I reached in and scraped the cream out of me. I paid $17 plus tax on this bullshit, but I could have just as easily ripped up my money or paid someone to not hurt me.
The moral of the story is that vaginal health care is is completely fucked up because we don’t have access to an over the counter cure for yeast infections that is safe for our bodies and also YOU SHOULD NEVER BUY THIS CREAM EVER.
Reblog to save a vagina.
Okay so I used to get yeast infections every month after my period ‘cause my pH levels were fucked up or something (idk that’s what my doctor said) and I actually used to take this stuff and it was fine. Then a couple years down the road I had a yeast infection for the first time in ages and I used this again and it burned so bad I had to sit in the bath and like physically dig it out of my vagina
AND THEN I LEARNED THAT IT’S BECAUSE I DIDN’T HAVE A YEAST INFECTION. I had a bacterial infection, which is honestly pretty much identical to a yeast infection depending on the severity. The only difference is that IF YOU HAVE A BACTERIAL INFECTION AND TRY TO USE YEAST INFECTION MEDICATION IT WILL HURT
But it’s not actually the medication’s fault. The medication DOES do what it’s supposed to do, provided you’re actually suffering from a yeast infection. Chances are though that you and every one who commented on this did, in fact, have bacterial infections instead.
FORTUNATELY they also make over the counter tests so you can know if you need to call your doctor or just grab some yeast medicine off the shelf. Next time if you aren’t sure, pee on a stick and save yourself a world of fucking pain
AMEN.
It’s unfortunate that I’m 27 and never knew that last bit of information. The world of vaginal health is so obscure and inaccessible.
Reblogging because I too once found out the hard way that I had a bacterial & not yeast infection. 😑
I, too, once set my vagina aflame with miconazole. I didn’t know it was because of a bacterial infection. Reblogging to save a vag.
Reblogging to save a vag.
It’s almost like the shame and stigma thar surrounds vaginas is a danger to the health and well being of people who have vaginas.
Damn y’all #saveavag
I had surgery a couple years ago and along with that came a hefty dose of antibiotics to prevent an infection. Skip forward a few days and yup, definitely have a yeast infection. I got some Monistat because I had used it on the past and knew it worked. Put it in, and within a few hours the fires of hell were bursting forth from my lady business. I put an ice pack on my crotch, took some painkillers, and went to sleep because some of the online reviews were like “It burns like hell for the first couple days but that shows it working” (total bullshit btw)
When I woke up the pain was better but I was starting to get some minor cramping and had salmon colored discharge. (🤢) I texted my aunt who’s an OBGYN who informed that I had developed an allergy to either the medicine or the cream base (and finding which is trial and error and sucks) so she recommended switching to a Lotrimin product (like Gyne Lotrimin or Clotrimazole) and holy hell the relief was instantaneous. I cleared up my yeast infection without any pain.
If I didn’t have my aunt as a resource I probably would have tried to stick out the Monistat and honestly could have ended up scarring my vag because I listened to people online. Do your research PROPERLY, if you have a question ask someone who actually knows what they’re talking about.
one of the most annoying things about having chronic pain for me is that everyone just assumes I’m not in pain anymore because I took painkillers or that my painkillers should help me and make me not be in pain anymore at all and if they aren’t “working” I shouldn’t take them
like my meds barely help me from a abled persons point of view, they help me enough to be able to go to the bathroom (this is with my mobility aid) but that’s still a lot for me and its a difference between being bedbound and literally not being able to move to being able to function at least a little (even if it’s just crawling to the bathroom or be on my phone or eat/drink)
I can’t tell you how many times my mom has told me “if the meds don’t help you why do you even take them??” because apparently meds cure everything and should help you at least 50%??
One reason I don’t like to call them “painkillers”. They don’t kill pain. Medications hopefully dull it enough that you can somewhat function through it.
My best guess is that a lot of people’s main frame of reference is, like, a relatively mild headache. Take something OTC, maybe lie down for a little while–and it might really stop!
That’s just not how chronic pain works, or even a lot of fairly common acute problems. (Say, a tooth abscess or a broken bone.) Which doesn’t seem like it should be particularly hard to understand even with little or no personal experience–assuming that the other person wants to get it. That is too often where it seems to break down, unfortunately.
Please do not talk about a child’s weight in front of them, or tell them they need to go on a diet.
Talking about weight in front of children is associated with mental and physical health risks, and both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Canadian Pediatric Society recommend against all weight talkaround children.
Open relationships seem to be becoming more popular which is cool, but this should be kept in mind:
If your partner is allowed to flirt and mess around with other people, and you’re not, you’re not in an open relationship. You’re being strung along, manipulated, and emotionally abused by someone who wants to do what they want on their terms, and control you at the same time.
Get out.
This happened to a friend of mine. The second she slept with someone else her boyfriend flew into a rage and my friend blamed herself. He also had a girlfriend who didn’t even know about her so…he was straight up cheating on his girlfriend and forbidding my friend he was seeing from seeing anyone else and called this an “open relationship.” My friend actually bought this as legitimate polyamory. Exploiting the language of polyamory can allow abusers to gaslight you to prevent you from even seeing infidelity and abuse for what it is.
I’m not kidding people die of dehydration more than anything else I’m talking 2 liters minimum.
snacks
first-aid and survival kit including after-bite, splint supplies and emergency signalling devices, and a thermal blanket. I am absolutely not kidding people get lost a mile from the road and die of exposure.
Map, your phone won’t work more than a mile from city limits.
change of socks.
something iron.
an offering or three. you might not need any, you might need all of them.
Etiquette:
Always close any gate you open. Even if the fence around it is gone. Both from a spiritual perspective and becuase there’s a nonzero chance the farm isn’t abandoned and the livestock is lurking in the scrub.
Cattle will stare at you. As long as they’re on the other side of the fence or river or ditch it’s fine. If there’s no barrier you need to leave. Range cattle fight coyotes and cougar and the worst of winter and don’t give a single fuck about you.
That’s not lore Range Cattle will fucking kill you.
Never approach any horse, but especially the ones without humans. They’re either fae or feral and the odds of them eating your hands are about the same.
Drink your water.
There are Others in Colorado, but the relationship is not nearly so adversarial out here. They’re like your neighbors but only sometimes corporeal. Mind your manners and obey any posted signage and you’ll be fine.
posted signage includes trees fallen across paths or washed-out sections of trail (trail closed), bits of dead animal on stumps or fence posts (occupied, fuck off) and the smell of urine (Mountain lion or bear turn right the fuck around)
Don’t eat anything you find there unless you brought a permit for it with you. Anyone who says you can forage on public land is a liar and going to get their ass poisoned or cursed.
If you did bring a permit, leave an offering anyway. The Law of Man is not the same as The Law of Mountains and you need to pay taxes in both.
Salute magpies, and any bird larger than them.
Everyone going uphill yields going to everyone going downhill, regardless of whether or not they’re human or real.
If you’re over 7000 feet and you seem to have picked up another member to your party, it’s just the mountain wondering what’s happening. It’s like bird watching for them. Be polite, pick up your trash and call the mountain whatever name it gives you.
Drink your fucking water.
If you feel like you’re being followed, especially at dusk, you absolutely turn around and tell whatever’s behind you you know they’re there. This is becuase it’s almost certainly coyotes and they need to be told to fuck off. If you can see what’s following you, face it and walk calmly backwards towards civilization until it goes away or you’re back in your car. If you can’t see what it is, tell it you’re headed home now, then you can turn back around and proceed calmly back from whence you came.
Do not, under any circumstances, run.
things that run are meant to be chased and everything up here is faster than you are.
also you’ll fall off a fucking cliff.
If you get back to the car or edge of the wild space and still feel like you’re being followed, check your shoes, pockets and any baggage for extras and leave them. If you’re STILL being followed, they’re being rude and you’re allowed to chuck a rock at them.
I’m not kidding about the water.
Don’t go into any “abandoned” buildings because 1. there’s a nonzero chance the building isn’t actually abandoned and then you have to explain to the rancher what the fuck you’re doing on their land 2. if it is abandoned it’s probably structurally unstable 3. the only things inside are rattlesnakes and tetanus.
Exception to above: if you hear thunder, you’re close enough to be struck. you can step inside then, but do not touch anything, especially the building it’self.
You are encouraged to walk out to abandoned tractors and plowshares and touch them. Don’t move them but stop to say hi and have some water.
If you find human remains, don’t panic. If they’re out there, they wanted to be found. Write down (you won’t be able to remember later, trust me) where you found them and inform the park service/police as soon as possible.
Durango! Don’t move here though, the town’s a municipal mess and it’s probably going to be on fire for most of 2018. Bearmageddon shoudn’t be as bad in ‘18 though. You can get simmilar results in most of the western half of the state though.
Does America even exist, because it sounds like some crazy B grade alien movie. And that’s coming from an Australian.
My favorite part about posting about CO is the horde of Aussies coming in yelling “well my country might be facing venomous-animal armeggedon BUT AT LEAST WE DON’T HAVE BEARS. FUCK.” tickles me pink every time.
You are right though, bears are MUCH worse than venomous snakes. Coyotes are worse than both of them and FUCK Javelinas.
it took me a solid 30 seconds of ‘why would aussies have a problem with bears they’re mostly harmless’ before i remembered i live in the part of the us where ‘bears’ are ‘smol black bears, like you could fight a bear and i’m not 100% sure you’d lose, and even drawing aggro to fight a bear is gonna be tough bc they’ll run away from you, they’re easier to scare away than the Fearless Deer’
species variation is wild and also i can never go camping Anywhere except Right Here because all my understanding of animals is ‘looks like it could kill you, is actually a cinnamon roll’
The bizarre nature of the US economic system means that poor people in the US can have a smartphone (under $30) and a choice between 20 different colors of $1 socks but then have no choice but to die of a tooth infection because that costs hundreds of dollars in order to access treatment.
This shit that “nobody starves, doesn’t have running water, has untreated parasitical diseases, etc. in the US” is flat out nonsense. And I can’t imagine how these beliefs could withstand any actual extended contact with poor communities in the US unless someone was intentionally refusing to acknowledge what was right in front of their eyes.
Because america is so segregated. Not only by race but by class.
I grew up 7 miles from the poorest county in America, in one of the wealthiest, and didn’t even know until I read about it in college.
America is amazingly fucked up.
I grew up where poaching was a big part of the diet, where low tides had the beaches covered with poor families gathering shellfish. Huge home gardens were the difference between survival. And my stepdad was lucky and normally employed. Until he broke his back in a mill, but at that time they had training programs and he got his GED and Assoc. Degree and combined with his experience he got a good job, we could actually buy all we needed in stores. Amazing.
You are not a horrible person at all!! He’s your dad and you love him, that’s completely natural and normal. When people say those things, they mean your Nazi uncle, not your dad who’s conservative but not a monster. Nobody should ever expect you to cut your father out of your life because he’s not as far left as you’d like.
My mom and I live together, we’re extremely close, and she was a Republican her entire life until Trump came onto the scene and she had her eyes opened to the massive hypocrisy and evil of the GOP, and just how she’d been lied to for decades. She believed all kinds of things that weren’t true, she had a lot of ingrained bigotry, but she’s honestly one of the nicest, gentlest people you’ll ever meet. She had been taught that abortion is murder and being gay is a choice and a sin, but she’s never been hateful, she only thought she was doing the right thing.
I used to be a Republican too, because I’m a white Christian Texan who was taught the same wrong things my mom was, and it wasn’t until I came on tumblr that I even began to realize how much of what I thought I knew was wrong. We really can’t under-emphasize just how widespread and how effective right-wing misinformation and propaganda has been, because I can’t even begin to tell you how many things I’d been taught were just straight-up lies.
It took me time to unlearn all of that and truly grasp how much I didn’t know, how much I had to come to terms with. Realizing that your entire worldview is completely backwards is more of a mindfuck than I can possibly tell you, so it’s not an easy process. It took months and years of reading and listening and learning for me to reach minimum acceptable tumblr wokeness, because I was starting from scratch. It also took years of conversations with my mom for her to not just hate Trump, but to realize many of her views were wrong or misguided, and freely declare herself a Democrat and a socialist.
Neither of us were ever hateful people, just deeply ignorant and lied to, and that’s the important difference. If you have a relative who can look at Trump locking up brown children in cages and not care in the least, that’s an asshole you should drop from your life. But if they can see that such heinous acts are wrong, they’re just conflicted and confused from a lifetime of thinking the way they’ve been taught to think, they’re just ignorant and haven’t learned better yet – that’s a decent person.
It’s especially okay for you to maintain a good relationship with your dad if you’re able to talk to him about these subjects and help him out of his ignorance. Cutting people out of your life is for those who are 100% unteachable and refuse to even consider that they might be wrong. You can’t help somebody who isn’t willing to listen. If your dad is willing to listen, then you should keep talking. You don’t have to fight or try to force him left, just talk.
You absolutely do not need to feel guilty for loving your conservative-leaning family members and wanting a good relationship with them. Ultimately, their beliefs aren’t your responsibility, and it’s only natural to want to be close to your parents if you can be. There’s nothing wrong with that, hon, don’t feel bad.
before you ever even consider having a child you should be ready to handle a disabled child, you should be ready to handle twins, you should be ready to handle a gay child or a trans child
because if you’re not ready for your child to be anything other than one straight, cis, able bodied and able minded child, you’re going to end up neglecting and abusing somebody for years to come
and even if your child is all that, you might have a feminine boy or a masculine girl on your hands. so be fucking ready for your child to be a human being and not YOUR PRODUCT or PROPERTY or CREATION
fucking sort your shit out, i am so tired of shitty parental sob stories about how “hard” it is to “raise” (read: beat the divergency out of) an autistic child or whatever. do you know what’s harder? being the divergent child of parents who you’ve already let down by virtue of existing in a way they didn’t ask for. putting up with years of neglect and abuse because you’re just not good enough for them, you weren’t what they were planning for or expecting.
Last paragraph is a fucking mic drop
then these same parents always act like being depressed and anxious is something that just NATURALLY GOES WITH being gay or autistic without taking responsibility for how they always treated us like we weren’t acceptable and forced these issues on us
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