I was diagnosed with a yeast infection by my gynecologist back in November, but it was very mild, so she gave me a prescription for some cream and told me to fill it only if I started to get symptoms. Well, for the past few weeks, (TMI warning) I was feeling somewhat itchy down there, I was getting some of that distinctive cottage cheese discharge, and I realized that I was drying out very quickly during sex, and that was making sex rather uncomfortable and somewhat painful. Over the past few days, the discharge became more copious, and this morning, when I woke up, it burned when I urinated, so my mother (who is a P.A.) wrote me a prescription for Diflucan, which I took this morning.

My question is, I really haven't been itching or burning all that much: I only have the discharge and the painful urination (it only starts to hurt about halfway through). Is it common to have a yeast infection without intense itching and/or burning?