Ingrown hair, cyst, pimple....or herpes or wart!?!?! Please help!!!!

I have 1 sm bump near my vagina, NOT on the fleshy area. It's on the OUTSIDE-the crease b/w my leg and outer labia, where my panties lie. Looks like a pimple. Saw it ~4 days ago, was very sore, like a pimple. I can get deep ingrown hairs-my skin is very sensitive! I wax~every 3 wks &where the lump is. Tried to pop it and some blood came out, a little puss seemed clear.Doesn't look blistery. Keep squeezing it, trying to pop it few Xs/day. A TINY bit of white puss came out. Was really red at first. Used warm compress-the redness reduced, still there&now a pink bump. Less sore now but press it & still feels like a sore zit. No whitehead or hair! Also used neosporin-helped the cuts from picking at it but the lump itself still there-less swollen.

No fever,discharge-never had anything on genitals.Had 2 others that looked just like this at DIFF times. 1 above pubic bone where I wax; other where my panties lie-but on the R-side. Also picked them, I think white puss came out once. Both left a discoloration, like a zit.

Been in a monogamous r-ship for 1 year-have unprotected sex. 4-5 mos after we 1st had sex, had my reg exam-nov 2006-& asked for an "STD Screen" Dr. took cultures & blood.Everything was normal.

What is this!? Pimple, cyst? Or WORSE-herpes or a genital wart? I spent HOURS on the Internet-freaked out b/c I read ingrown hairs/cysts can be mistaken for herpes/warts?!? Also read those usually present on the genitals itself and w/many bumps-this is neither.

[Alan Rockoff, MD]

Sounds like a pimple to me.  Does not sound anything like an STD, herpes, or warts.  My suggestions:
1. leave the bump alone
2. apply bacitracin or neosporin ointment twice daily
3. if it's still there in 10 days, show your doctor, for diagnosis and reassurance
4. stay off the internet for 1 month (except this site, of course....)

Best.

Dr. Rockoff

[amyloulou]

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