If you have medical insurance, you really need to go to a doctor. If you suspect that you have a yeast infection...do the right thing and make a doctors appt. I know all about yeast. I am currently under a doctor's care for a yeast problem. My primary care physician told me that yeast infections in both men and women can spread to other parts of the body. If you want to be a healthy person, get yourself checked and you will have peace of mind.

Unfortunately, Im still a student with no medical insurance. In my current situation, I cannot afford to pay for insurance. The second I graduate and get a job, I'm already 60,000 in debt. How fun college life is....

Seems I cannot edit my post.. but I wanted to add sometihng...

I dont know too much about yeast, but is it life threatening if it is left untreated?

Yes, yeast is dangerous if left untreated. Yeast infections are actually capable of killing a person depending on the situation and the persons immune system. Yeast is a form of a fungus. And it spreads. It can spread whether its a male yeast infection or yeast infection. I currently have a yeast infection that I am trying to get rid of. My doctor thought I had diabetes because I just cannot get rid of this yeast in my body. I came up negative on all this medical testing they did, they cannot figure out why I cannot rid myself of the yeast. It's disgusting. When I wake up in the morning ,its the first thing I think of. I feel miserable. So do yourself a favor, and find out from a doctor if you have a male yeast infection. Yeast is no joke! if you need any other info, let me know.

2gala, did you ever go to the doctor and find out if it was a yeast infection? If you dont have insurance, try to find a low cost clinic.

Yeast infection symptoms include severe burning, itching, irritation, and a whitish-gray discharge. The most common is perhaps the vaginal yeast infection, which can additionally be accompanied by the redness, inflammation of the vulvar skin, painful urination and sexual intercourse, and a discharge often smelling like bread or beer, which can range from thick and clumpy to clear and thin.
Here is a guide on male yeast infection and symptoms of yeast infection.
I hope it will help you

Over use of soap can mess up the natural enviroment in the foreskin,boy's who are uncircumcised and take freaquent bubble baths can get the same symptoms you are discribing.
My friend had a Yeast problem and would use natural unsweetend yougat as a cream under his foreskin and it balanced things out for him,just a suggestion.

The most common cause of a male yeast infection is through sexual contact. The yeast is passed from the female to the male during the sexual act and therefore a male yeast infection can actually be classified as a sexually transmitted disease, or STD. Sometimes the male is not aware that he has the yeast infection and he and his partner may pass it back and forth, resulting in a persistent yeast infection.

Another way in which the yeast infection may be present in the male is though prolonged antibiotic use. The antibiotics will remove bacteria throughout the male body and leave it susceptible to attack from the yeast that is always present. This could turn into a male yeast infection.

There are several ways that you can stop male yeast infections including prescriptions and natural cures. I always tend to prefer the natural cure methods because there are little or no possible side effects and they tend to treat the cause from the root instead of just removing the symptoms.

The most common cause of a male yeast infection is through sexual contact. The yeast is passed from the female to the male during the sexual act and therefore a male yeast infection can actually be classified as a sexually transmitted disease, or STD. Sometimes the male is not aware that he has the yeast infection and he and his partner may pass it back and forth, resulting in a persistent yeast infection.

Another way in which the yeast infection may be present in the male is though prolonged antibiotic use. The antibiotics will remove bacteria throughout the male body and leave it susceptible to attack from the yeast that is always present. This could turn into a male yeast infection.

There are several ways that you can stop male yeast infections including prescriptions and natural cures. I always tend to prefer the natural cure methods because there are little or no possible side effects and they tend to treat the cause from the root instead of just removing the symptoms.

I'm a 28yr old guy and couldn't believe I had a yeast infection this past year.

I had all of the symptoms, splotchy spots, dry, flaky penis. Hard to retract foreskin since the moisture was gone. It was itchy and irritated all the time.

It was a combination of stress(had been laid off and was job searching), bad eating and a super strong antibiotic Avelox I was taking for a bronchitis.

I used a 2.5 step treatment recommended my best friend who at the time was in nursing school---really smart woman:

1. I started eating more yogurt to help replenish the natural microbial flora in my stomach. I also took an additional Acidophilus tablet each day. This was to build back the immune systems that was compromised by the antibiotic.

2. To clean my penis (once in the morning and then before going to bed)I would make fill a clear plastic cup no more than 1/8 full of white vinegar and then filled up to the 3/4 pt. with hot/warm water. I would then put my penis in this warm vinegar bath. It burns only slightly initially, but it actually felt really good to relieve the extreme itching from the infection.
Retract your foreskin if you can and then Shake your penis around a lot in there... you literally see the stuff coming off the penis... Not sure it was yeast or dead skin cells. In my mind it was like watching the yeast screaming in pain and jumping ship off my penis!(dorky I know)

3. After cleaning my penis and making sure it was dry, I applied regular Monistat 3 once before going to work and then again before going to bed. I felt embarrassed that I had to buy it in the "women's section" in the convenience store. But whatever, just suck it up. (The #'s 1, 3, and 7 just correspond to the strength of the medicine. For women a 7day treatment is less strong vs. a 1 day. I split the difference and bought the 3.)
So, I'd just squirt some of the cream with the weird applicator thingee onto my finger and then retract my foreskin as far as it would go and generously apply all over the head of my penis and run my finger under the foreskin.

So after 3-4 weeks of having a yeast infection and having nothing work like trying useless anti-fungal creams, and antibiotic creams. This treatment made a difference in 3-4 days because it attacks candida balanitis yeast specifically.

Hope this helps someone in the future... I did no find anything online in terms of actual treatment...
Afterwards, when I had health insurance again, I went to a Urologist. The problem didn't believe me. He thought I was confused and sort of making it up! He said to me "men don't get yeast infections" Freakin' fool...

Get as much garlic in you as you can. Make a cream of it and put it on the infected area and the bottom of your feet. Keep doing this even if you think you have it under control. A few months after you think you have it you can slow down on treating it. Garlic is something you should take every day for prevention.

Antibiotics kill both good and bad bacteria so I would try and do this naturally as much as possible. Get a good probiotic and start using it every day. Double the dose! If you eat lots of cooked food do enzymes because yeast multiply on dead cooked food. Need to get the food in and out as fast as possible and don't let it stay in your gut for the yeast to feed on.

Guys check out my post http://ehealthforum.com/health/pimples-aro und-private-area-t184392.html

Do you guys think i have yeast infection?