Hello, Welcome to Healthcaremagic. I had gone through your query and understand your concern. I suspect it to be a improper treatment of fungal infection. Because you felt better after taking monistat ( Miconazole). I think you did not complete the full course of the treatment. I you are my patient i advise you take the following drugs, 1. Terbinafine 250 mg once daily along with or in empty stomach for four weeks. To help clear up your infection completely, it is very important that you keep using terbinafine for the full time of treatment, even if your symptoms begin to clear up or you begin to feel better after a few days. Since fungal infections may be very slow to clear up, you must take terbinafine for a month. If you stop taking this medicine too soon, your symptoms may return. 2. Use miconazole ointment for local application. Apply upto 3 to 4 cm from the lesion border. so that it help in adequate clearance of infection. My general advice to prevent reinfection and prevention of spread to other areas are 1. Wash your pelvic area twice or thrice daily. Keeping dry pelvic and groin area is essential to prevent multiplication of fungus. 2. Do not share towels and other cloths. This help in spread of infection to others. 3. Use separate towel for cleaning and drying pelvic area. Hope this helps. If you have additional questions or follow up queries then please do not hesitate in writing to us. I will be happy to answer your queries. Wishing you good health. Regards, Dr.Manjeth.