I first noticed serious pain in my upper stomach that slowly traveled downwards over the course of an hour, then dissipated. This was on a Monday. Later that night I had intercourse and I noticed my partner was hitting my uterus wall, which he never does because he is not well endowed. It was fairly uncomfortable, condoms were used.
Two days passed and I noticed burning as I was finishing peeing. I wasn't sure what was going on, it wasn't every time I went to the bathroom, so I had sex with another partner, uncovered the next day, Thursday.
The burning got worse. I thought I had a yeast infection or a UTI, so I took a Monistat one day treatment. No change. I started drinking a lot of cranberry, taking cranberry pills, yeast defense pills and I started the 3 day yeast infection treatment, the creams. The last time I had a yeast infection, my symptoms cleared after one cream treatment. Not the case here.
Several days went by while I was trying these at home treatments. I even tried vinegar, didn't work. The day I tried vinegar, I stupidly tried something someone had posted about by putting vinegar on a tampon and inserting it into the vagina. Well, that was tough to get in, I thought it was normal because sometimes during my period that happens due to lack of lubrication. I left it in for a short time, it was uncomfortable and I took it out. Later that night or the next day, I noticed my vagina was swollen. Big lumps, could hardly get my fingers in there.
It started out as my vaginal walls were swollen. I noticed that I could see one of the lumps sticking out of my vaginal opening. It was whitish in color, but still red as well due to the inflammation. I went to the doctor and I told her about it but she never really said much about it. She said I might have herpes (in which it seems true, I did find one blister and then a lesion the next day after the blister popped). She sent off some tests, gave me a yeast infection pill prescription and a preventative prescription for herpes.
I took the pill for yeast, then started taking 2 of the herpes pills every day for precausion. The lesions she said she saw seemed to be gone, but it was still burning when finishing peeing. Sitting in a bath seemed to help some. It also seemed to minimize the swelling.
I'm on day 3 of the pills, still burning and still somewhat swollen. The whitish color on the lump minimized and got darker as the days went by. I could see it through my vaginal opening whenever I examined it immediately. Today in the bath in the morning, I found something floating in the water that felt gelatin-like, flexible, almost skin-like (like dead skin that has fallen off of a callus) but it looked like it had oatmeal particles in it. Where did that come from I wondered? The bump on my lumps was now dark purple/blue.
I took my 2nd bath of the day after work. I examined my vagina in the bath to look at the blue bump. I started messing with it and found that I was able to pick it off, peel it, like dead skin from a callus. It didn't feel like anything at all. I still have decreased swollen lumps in my vagina, but now the blue bump has blue skin hanging from where it was because I could not pick it all off. I also noticed a laceration with white skin on my inner labia, that confirms that I most likely do have herpes. There is only one.
So my questions are, what is this blue bump? Is that normal that it went from larger and whitish blue to smaller and bluish purple? Is it possible there are more inside my vagina I can't see? Why doesn't it hurt when I peel the skin off? Why is the inside of my vagina still lumpy and what is that? How long will it take this laceration to go away? How long do the herpes pills take to work? Why am I still burning when I am finishing peeing? I thought the yeast infection pill was supposed to get rid of that.
I have STI tests that are supposed to be coming back this week, but I don't think the nurse who did my pelvic exam knew much about the lumps in my vagina.
Thanks