Homemade douche syringe? - Women's Health Message Board

Dark Stranger · 03-26-2004, 10:52 PM

To make a very long story really short and sweet, I'm doing what I can to treat a very annoying yeast infection myself and I want to know if there is any way to make a douche...not the fluid, but the injector syringe sort of thing (whatever it's actually called). I tried to make one once out of a plastic shower gel tube and I think I squirted it just slightly too hard, as I had a slight cramping pain in my groin for a couple of days (whoops...)

I'm asking because I don't want to pilfer one from my mom (I tihnk she'd notice if one was missing out of a box of 4), and I'd feel embarrassed asking for one. Help??

Dark Stranger

Belle2003 · 03-26-2004, 11:15 PM

Douching will only make your infection worse. You need to buy some yeast infection medicine from the drug store. It will be in the maxi pad section. If it turns out not to be that, but something else, then only a doctor can help you.

If you have no insurance and money is a problem, then go to planned parenthood where they can examine you and diagnosis you for a small fee.

Katyana · 03-26-2004, 11:34 PM

In an effort to eliminate all natural smells and discharges, a lot of women and girls use douches and feminine deodorants. Remember that the vagina is self-cleaning, so douching is unnecessary. Regular douching can disturb the balance of the normal amount of bacteria found in the vagina which is one way a woman can get vaginitis, an inflammation of the vagina.

If you want to keep your vulva fresh and healthy, take good care of yourself. Eat well, exercise, always wipe from front to back, and wash regularly with gentle soap and water.

You should go to your doctor and get looked at. It's entirely possible that you don't have a yeast infection at all, and could have vaginitis, or an STD of some kind.

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Originally Posted by Dark Stranger

To make a very long story really short and sweet, I'm doing what I can to treat a very annoying yeast infection myself and I want to know if there is any way to make a douche...not the fluid, but the injector syringe sort of thing (whatever it's actually called). I tried to make one once out of a plastic shower gel tube and I think I squirted it just slightly too hard, as I had a slight cramping pain in my groin for a couple of days (whoops...)

I'm asking because I don't want to pilfer one from my mom (I tihnk she'd notice if one was missing out of a box of 4), and I'd feel embarrassed asking for one. Help??

Dark Stranger

Dark Stranger · 03-26-2004, 11:41 PM

No no no...I don't mean real douching...I know that worsens the infection. But I found a remedy for curing yeast infection that calls for a water-hydrogen peroxide solution to be used via douche.

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You should go to your doctor and get looked at. It's entirely possible that you don't have a yeast infection at all, and could have vaginitis, or an STD of some kind.

I also read about other things that share siilar symptoms of yeast infections, including vaginitis, but there is no grey or green discharge or fishy smell or swelling or redness or pain or anything of the sort that was said for these other illnesses, so I think I will assume that I have a run-of-the-mill yeast infection. Besides, I don't want some stranger touching me in my most protected area only to tell me something I already know; I'll spare myself the embarrassment.

Dark Stranger

Blastoff9600 · 03-27-2004, 08:59 AM

Just because it doesnt have the other common signs of other infections doesnt mean it isnt one of those. Also yeast infections dont have to have all the common signs to be a yeast infection.
Also you are going to have to get use to a doctor looking atyou because if you are sexual active or 18 you need to get yearly pap exams. You dont have to go to some strange docotro you dont know you can go to your regular doctor. You need to know for sure this is a yeast infection and the only way to do that is to get seen by a doctor. Treating what you think is a yeast infection could very easily make things far worse eithr by makeing the infection worse,yourself sick or yes even effect yoru fertility. By that last word I meanyou could make it where having kids isnt possible,that is if you want kids in the future.

It is nothing to be embarresed about since doctors have seen it all. ALso the faster you get over being embarresed the easier breast,pap,and other such exams become.