The symptoms of a yeast infection are vaginal discharge, redness, severe itching, soreness and a burning sensation.
When it happens to you, you want to get it over with as soon as possible.
Most of the time, you go to your medical practitioner to confirm that you do have candidiasis and get a prescription to combat the overgrowth of the Candida Albicans fungus.
The next morning after starting the treatment, you wake up expecting to feel some relief but all the symptoms are still there.
You still have the itching and redness, etc and wonder what is going on.
You give it a few more days hoping that the medication will soon start working.
A few days later and still no relief.
What is the matter? Many times after treating a yeast infection with the same or similar medication over and over again, the fungi become resistant to treatment.
You may need to change to a different medicine or do another course of treatment with the same medication.
The dollars start to add up and you still have no relief in sight yet.
This can be frustrating but most women with recurring yeast infections have some type of resistance.
The infection never really goes away, it just subsides for awhile.
This can also happen when you don't completely finish the treatment.
It is so easy to stop the treatment when you feel the symptoms go away.
Even when you get full relief, you are only getting relief from the symptoms.
Your body still has the potential for another episode of the overgrowth of yeast and another infection.
You need to find out what you have to do so that the infection wont come back again.
Luckily there are small things that you can do to change your diet or other lifestyle changes to keep the yeast in check.