Hi! I had an odd question and was wondering if you could help me. For the past few years I have had an odor coming from my vagina and lots of stinging/burning inside of it and around it. I ve been to the doctors several times and they always either treat me for yeast infections of bacterial infections. I noticed some white stuff on the inside of my vaginal area but I don t think that It s yeast. I ve never been sexually active - but there was an incident when I was a kid where my dog ended up licking me down there. My question was - can you contract an STD from a dog licking your vagina/vaginal area? I always worry about this extensively - I get worried that I somehow got HIV or herpes from this happening! But those are species specific - right? I ve read that humans can t pass these onto dogs so dogs can t pass them to humans? I just worry that Its a viral infection like these and won t have a cure. I also wasn t sure if you could contract something like Chlamidya or Gonerreha or another bacterial STD from this or not? and if the answer to both of these questions are no - what could I possibly have that explains all my symptoms? I have bad anxiety and have always been worried that something bad is wrong from this incident happening. Do you know of anything I could ve possibly gotten a few years ago from my dog licking me in that area that would cause burning, odor, the white stuff, etc? Is an STD possible? I m sorry if this is such an odd question - this has just been going on for years now and I have an appointment Thursday but just wanted to get some knowledge on it and narrow it down and also maybe calm my anxiety and worries a little bit - as you can tell it really worries me! I just want to be sure It can t be anything like HIV or Herpes, and then can it be a bacterial STD or what could it be? Thank you so much, I really appreciate it!