I didn't read everyone else's responses (things have been crazy around here) -- but wanted to respond to Deus.
For everyone who's interested, you know you have thrush when you can scrape goo off of your tongue, and then place it in a glass of water. If it's stringy, it's thrush. I thought I had it years ago when I was first in the hospital complaining of thirst -- but it just turned out to be a really dry tongue.
You might see about nystatin. I am not familiar with Daktarin, but then again, I'm not a doctor or pharmacist, and my attempts at playing one on TV failed in gradeschoo.
) Nystatin is available in a pill form and may help. I think it's interesting that they're trying patches on the inside of your cheeks...never heard of that treatment, but maybe it costs less (or more??) than nystatin, which has been around for a long, long time!
Just remember, Deus... fungie are more fun.
The yogurt trick you're referring to works for women, or for digestive issues. The idea is to take up the "parking spaces" of the "bad" fungi and replace them those parking spots with friendly bacteria. I think you're not going to help things with doing that in your mouth. You might have better luck kissing a dog to get some other bacteria in your oral cavity.
Most adults have a slightly white tongue in the back -- at least, that's what my dentist says. Be sure to brush your tongue. It's likely that your taste bud cells have become a overactive and that's the white that you see. Brushing your tongue nightly will reduce this over a couple months; do not brush hard, just light brushing will do the trick.
If you are unable to scrape the white stuff from your tongue with a popcicle stick and then swish the stick in water to get a kind of weird "lightning" appearance of the cells in the water, it is not thrush. (Of course, that's a non-lab way of looking at it).
The gel is meant to attack the fungi and allow them to scurry to new camps, so I imagine that scraping it will only spread them around more.
For oral sex (I think you mean when you dial one of those 1-900 numbers to talk dirty, right?), YES!, it can be passed on, and you can also get re-infected it this way. Make sure your partner...errr...phone has been checked and treated, or the cycle will continue every time you talk dirty.
I'm not sure how long it would take for treatment to work.
I can tell you that nystatin works by causing the cell membranes of the fungi to become weak, essentially causing them to fall apart (actually, they lose their potassium and/or sodium ions, causing them to eventually break open). I'm not sure if nystatin is available in a mouthwash form (guess you could Google it), but I know an oral version would probably fix you right up.
Dangit, I'm curious about what drug you have, but patches sound a little uncomfy.
