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Foul odor around clitoris
I am 19 years old and for a few years now i have had a foul, fishy odor around the area of where the clitoris is. I haven't had any problems with odor in the vagina though. I don't experience redness or itching either. I always wear clean clothes. I bathe everyday and use a gentle feminine cleanser but even right after a shower or bath the smell is there and it gets worse as the day goes on. I have been prescribed a cream to be used in the vagina to get rid of bacteria, but it doesn't help with the odor...I'm assuming because the odor is not coming from the inside of the vagina. I am not sexually active at this time but i am worried about when i am, because the odor is embarrassing. Any ideas or thoughts?
I know exactly what you are going through. Here is the test to all those who are not believers. Take a towel and dab a section around the vagina opening and urethra only. Smell the towel, fresh as a daisy! Again take a different section of towel and wipe over and around the clitoris. Smell the towel, smell of body odour? I have yet to figure out a solution to this. I believe it is something to do with the acid secreted through the clitoris. Very difficult to eliminate with soap or bodywash. It also becomes heightened with added stress or anxiety. My suggestions - use a very high quality moisturising body wash. Before you get in the shower without water just handful of bodywash give yourself a really good scrub around the genitals for a few minutes. Then wash off and repeat. Try not to dilute with water too much until you have repeated this three times. Then shower as normal. Do this twice a day. Drink plenty of water, try to stay calm. A powder with baking soda, or a powder helps. No feminine hygiene product actually works. All I have found are hopeless for this problem. Shave or trim the area, hair traps odor. Go for a half hour swim at the beach usually gets rid of it. Use wipes in the loo. Wear cotton underwear. Eat parsley and lots of green veg. Parsley is like mint for the body. All these things help to manage it but sorry no cure!!!
I have the same thing and I think it is coming from the clitoris too. So if it is not, I can understand your confusion. Someone would need to prove to me it was my urethra. It is a very foul odor and I have read nothing related to the urethra about this bad of an odor.
I have always had a sensation of discharge there as well, above my urethra.
I have always had a sensation of discharge there as well, above my urethra.
It's ur Urethra (where you pee from) that the odor is coming from. Your doctor should give you some pills, but stop the feminine products and change out of wet undies immediately. I've had the same problem and the bv will come back if u slip up, so you have to always be careful. Mine would come and go, so I thought it was nothing, but it returned too ofen and the smell gets worse, not only throughout the day, but the longer u take to get it cured. OH! the discharge is coming from the Urethra too, u might mistake it as coming from the vagina, because it is right over it, and the discharge runs down as though it originated from the vagina. The urethra and clitoris are farely close, you might have mistaked the smell as coming from your clit, but its not...
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You make me laugh sososososo hard. I can get the mental image of you leaning over to smell yourself!!
hahahahahaha
You make me laugh sososososo hard. I can get the mental image of you leaning over to smell yourself!!
hahahahahaha
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