Conditions
Vaginal Discharge
It’s perfectly normal for all women to experience vaginal discharge. However, this nugget of information will be of little comfort to you if your handbag is a repository for clean pairs of ‘emergency knickers’. Vaginal discharge usually begins just before puberty and ends after the menopause. Effectively this is your vagina cleaning itself. Normal discharge is clear, white or creamy and may give off a musky smell, but it’s not unpleasant. You may notice the amount changing from time to time and getting heavier just before your period. Sexual arousal or pregnancy may also bring an increase. However, if your discharge becomes thicker and has a consistency rather like cottage cheese, then you may have a bacterial infection such as thrush. And if it’s a greenish yellow colour then it may be more serious and could be a symptom of gonorrhoea or trichomoniasis. And be warned: chlamydia may also cause a change in your vaginal discharge.
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Hi I am 24 yrs old I always seem to have vaginal discharge sometimes its clear other times milky colour and sometimes green it seems to change although there is no smell of it and I have no other symptoms at all …. I havent slept with anyone in a yr and a half but last time I did it was unprotected do you think I could have an STI or is it normal to have discharge like this?? Thank You
hi, im 21 years old and I have had problems for years now. Most of the time my discharge is normal but I suffer very bad from cystitis, I have had antibiotics for it when it is very bad but I know how to control it now, I drink less alcohol,take cranberry tablets everyday and buy the cystitis relieving sachet drinks when it flares up again. But it still wont disappear. But when I dont have cystitis, I sometimes get thrush. And when I dont have thrush, often my discharge thickens and smells terrible that I feel that I have to change my underwear. As soon as I get symptoms for any of these I try to sort it out. I have been to the doctors many times and taken all sorts of antibiotics, drank less alcohol and more water, changed my diet and had regular check ups. The doctors have found nothing wrong with me and I know it is probably my age and my mum was prone to it aswell but it is just one thing after another and I really need to sort it out once and for all! Is there anything else you think I could do or what else could be causing it? Thank you x
i smell really bad from the vagina and have bleeding from the ass its worse when i go to the toilet and i have had 8 children and got steriles after my lasted child was born the next day had it done short time after i started to smell then the bleeding started
hey, im 20 turning 21 soon, for about a year and half iv had vaginal discharge, and its been quite heavey and smells quite alot, like cleanin products or kinda fish, im really embarrised by it i dont feel comfortable even just standing with friends because i think its smells that bad, im to embarrised to talk to anyone aboout it, can you sujest what to do? thanks
hey.im 22 years old and for as long as i can rememeber i have had vaginal diascharge and i do have to change my knickers in the day and it does smell quite bad and i am worried my boyfrend will notice it even smells when i dont have knickers on i am clean and showered. i have been to the doctors and she sed it is perfectly normal.is there any way i can get stop it and get rid of the smell? thankyou x
I have been suffering from disharge for a while sometimes it is quite thick and sometimes it is as thin as water! It smells quite badly I have tried thrush cream and the tablets no help at all I am getting really worried at the thought of other people smelling it! Please help and put my mind at rest
Thanks
I have not yet started my period either !!!
I have disharge everyday, for around 2 years. And i have had enough !!! :@. i am only 14 and i feel that this surely isn't natural and i must be doing somehthing wrong. I am getting to the stage were i need to feel more confident around boys and to be honest at the moment i need to stay away as i am so embarresed by this. :'(
im 20 scince ive had my baby ive had discharge really bad it smells im ichey and im very sore down there its worse whaen im on my period im scared to go to my gp is this an infection,thrush or any other symptom i wash and change my underwear up 2 four tyms a day im scaredd to have my boyfriend round an have sexual intercourse what cud this be??
Hi im 14 and have not yet started my period, but havw noticed i am producing vaginal discharge. Yesterday i found two white (egg like things) in my pants also, are these eggs with out a period?
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