text: i dont know why, and nervous to ask.? recently for the past couple weeks (like 3), my vaginal area has started to itch and sometimes it itches so bad it kind of hurts. i have tried washing "down there" with soap in the shower after a week just in case it went away by itself, but that didn't help. i've checked it out myself (being tooo shy and nervous to tell anyone), and i've noticed that once or twice when it really itched, i noticed the area on my outer parts had really really dry skin and was a little flakey. but that went away within a day or two... but i still was itching. and it hurts sometimes to urinate, and i have a wierd discharge where some days i have none at all, and then other days it's white but not really "chunky" at all, and then other days its really light yellow but that's not "chunky" either. i've read about yeast infections on here, and was wondering if that's what this is, or if it just my area being really irritated by something. if someone could reallllly please help me, i'd really appreciate it. although you may be nervous, you need to just buck up and go see a doctor.  remember, this is what they went to school before and they have seen hundreds of other girls just like you.  it could be something as minor as a yeast infection, or it could be a std or other infection that could leave you infertile or cause other permanent damage.  trust me, we have all been there at one point, but you need to put your health and well-being over your nervousness.