I need someone's help to determine if what I have is a staph infection or not?

[lazycat333]

Hello I am 17 years old and I have a situation in which I feel terrified about because I feel like I have no one to talk about this with. So, for the past maybe 2 years I've gotten these bumps on my vagina that were always tender and sometimes they would like they had pus but I never touched them and they would go away. When it first started happening I freaked out and was confused because I never thought that someone could get pimples on their vagina but I was happy that they would go away. Sometimes they would be gone for long periods of time and then they would come back attacking me. These bumps at first would start out as painful and then gradually stopped being painful and just turned kind of pus color and then eventually would disappear. Most recently, I felt a very strong pain on my inner thigh, the part that is really close to my vagina and the bending part of the leg. (I'm sorry I don't know what this is called) But I assumed was another pimple thing and obviously was upset since I wish the pain would go away. The pain was ongoing and I never checked it out. Eventually it became very painful and while I was urinating one time I looked at my underwear and it had pus which I assumed meant that the thing had popped so after this I changed underwear and cleaned the area. Everyday after that the same thing would happen but it would be painful moving for example it would hurt to crouch and sit criss-crossed and so on. For a week now, I think the pus is gone but now I find dried blood on my underwear and I was very worried so I finally checked it out. When I looked under, I became very scared because I found a whole in my skin. The hole is kind of big maybe a little smaller than a penny, I'm not very sure. I did try to touch the surrounding skin around the hole and it was just unbearable to look at. I am very worried because I tried searching around the internet as to what this could be and the only thing I ran into was that this could've been an ingrown hair which has now transitioned to a staph and I'm very scared because I don't want to tell anyone including my parents nor do I want to go to the doctor or the hospital. But someone please send help or give me some ideas as to what this can be?

[Torylovescats]

Definitely sounds like a staph infection. It's nothing to be embarrassed about. Sounds like you'll need antibiotics for it if it hasn't cleared itself up yet so you will have to go see a doctor!