Sore in the genital area

[Good Gosh]

I had a lump in the genital area. After a few days it oussed pus and blood. Then cleared up a week later a have another one.
Same deal hard at first still hard around the area now oussing pus and blood. Went to the doctor and was told it wasn't herpes but she doesn't know what cause it and thinks it may be infected glands. Anyone have any ideas? I have reach menopause.
Does that mater?

[oceans3]

well, i had just what you described. it was like a cyst but mine was on the side near my vaginal lips. it HURT and especially when i walked. it got bigger and turned purple. i went to the dr. and she said its a barthomews? cyst. nothing to worry about. just put a hot cloth on it as often as possible to drain it. do not squeeze it. it will hurt more. i only squeezed mine when i could see that it was ready (came to head) i know.. gross but it felt SO much better. that was the worst time i had it but it came back again a couple of times mostly when im getting my period though.

[stefaniebrooke]

I have the same thing but it's on my inner thigh.  I thought it was a like a blood pimple or something like that, because it comes to a head, but its almost all blood.  It turns purple and hurts a lot.  They're not fun at all.

[oceans3]

do you think yours could be an ingrown hair? try not to pick at it or squeeze it.

[tatu]

omg i'm so glad to find someone with this same problem.
i get sores exactly like you describe. i've gotten them since i was in my teens. i'm 48 now. doctors have never really been able to explain what they are. i get them more often right before my period starts & especially any kind of genital massage. sometimes it's just 1 sore & sometimes it's clusters of 3 or more. they start out as hard bumps under the skin & mature to boil like sores that are VERY painful. when they get to the boil stage i pop them but they seal & sometimes i have to keep popping them so they drain & start to heal. i also try to keep them very clean & dry as they drain. i use witch hazel to clean them. i'd really like to know what causes this. i'm thinking maybe they are lymph nodes that are irratated easily but i wish i knew why. this is very embarassing to say but i'm not sexually active & haven't been for some time so i do masterbate. these sores are really a problem because i get 1 very close to my clitorous almost everytime i masterbate. it worries me that these sores will appear more if i meet someone & become sexually active with him & cause problems in our sexual relationship. has that happened to anyone else? any knowledge or advice from doctors would be GREATLY appreciated!!!!!!!!!!!!
atleast now i know i'm not alone(not that i wish this on anyone else)
thank you all

[DS107]

I have a boil on the inside of my vaginal lip and its been worrying me.  I was afraid it was cancer!  It's red and painful and I've never gotten it before in my entire 23 yrs.  Although, my period is coming.  Maybe its ok not to be so worried?  It sounds like what you guys are describing...

[Sheyla Fae]

Thank goodness! finally some people who might be able to help me.
I admit i'm too embarrassed to see a doctor about this problem, as all the GPs around here are male and I dont really want to have to see a gynacologist.

I'm 22 years old and still a virgin, I dont masturbate often though - maybe once a week.

Yet somehow a few months ago I found the same thing on my genetals. what seemed like a hard lump formed under the skin, and shortly thereafter became highly painful and began to purn purple. After having a quick go at it, it popped and i was both amazed and utterly disgusted to see puss and blood just... oozing out of it. But the pain was gone so i was pleased.

Now only a week ago, it seems to have come back again just as sore and "full" as ever and I seem to have to 'drain' it almost daily. Worse still is i just found one after my shower on the under side of my breast! Being DD they are quite large so how long its been there i dont know! I've now drained it too (after much pain) and bandaged them both.

Could anyone PLEASE tell me what these horrible things are and how to deal with them? I hate being so naive about my own body!

[DS107]

I still have mine and it is soooo painful.  I did some research on it and it seems to be normal.  It has to do with an over production of hormones.  

Sheyla: I share your thoughts on going to the doctor.  I am the same way so I know what its like to have that be your last resort.  Since you are a DD and its summer, you are most likely getting sweat pimples that are becoming infected.  The only think I can really tell you is maybe wash your body with an antispetic wash (not in the nether regions though) a couple times a week.  I used to get them on my arms and other places but since I began using the antiseptic wash a few times a week, I havent had a problem.  As far as the bump on your genitals, the only thing I can really say is keep it clean and apply hot compresses to it.  I hope it helps!  And if you need anything, my email is ***@****

[colet]

I don't know if this will help anyone, but you may be carrying staph on your skin. You may also be getting it from your partner (the people who sleep in the same bed etc.) Staph can happen anywhere you have really dry skin or wounds... around the genital area, under the arms, in the nose or even on the face if you have a pimple. What starts out as a little puffiness ends up as big throbbing sores that hurt to touch. These sores are generally hard to begin with and then later are a little softer. Sometimes they open up and drain, sometimes it takes forever. There are a number of things to do to get rid of staph: 1. go to the doctor and get antibiotics (bactrum for 10 days) and some ointment for the lesion and also for the nose since this is where we usually carry staph (bactroban). It will cost about 96.00 (usd) without insurance. 2. wash everything... this means sheets, towels, clothing... everything that you have come in contact with. 3. go to walgreens and get a soap in a green bottle with white writing called Hibicleans -- its over the counter in the first aid section-- this is a great product---- have everyone in your household wash with it, it will kill the staph on your skin-- it doesn't smell bad either. 4. If your lesions don't rupture and drain after about 5-7 days, go back to the doctor and have them lance it, it will fell 100% better once it opens up and drains. 5. Remember that staph is an infection so if you have a child with it be sensitive to the fact that they feel like ****. The infection makes you feel as though you have the flu and can put you down for a couple days. Just do the best you can and things will get better very quickly!

[scared1909]

Hi, I have a bump, that is flesh covered,(pea sized) on my genital area but away from my vaginal lips. I don't know what it is but I'm afraid to guess. When I got out of the shower this morning I noticed it oozed white pus. The area around this bump is tender a little swollen. I have just found out that cysts run in my family but I'm afraid that it could something else like herpes or hpv! I really do need a clue. I so no symptoms of an std and have never had one but I heard that the symptoms can be elusive. I've recieved unprotected oral sex a few times but never had unprotected vaginal sex. I guess it could be folliculitis but I'm just not sure...

[klm1]

Hi....I have the same problem.....not exzactly the same but close....I am afraid I have Herpes..but I seached it and it said its many bumps and not just one....but u see my problem is that I have only been with one person in my life and I am his first also. So i do not think its any STD. I have a bump and at first it was just a little sore that looked like a pimple and i squeezed it...then nothing came out and it started to swell a little after that. I took a shower before i noticed it and had sex...then after sex it was there. I keep thinking maybe ...i know this sounds gross...but maybe a open pore got fluids in it and it caused it to swell on top of me squeezing it did not help much.....now it is the same size as it was after i squeezed it...its red and it hurts. When stuff did come out of it...it was puss clear and blood...mostly blood...then puss....it is still there and hurts probably from me trying to squeeze it....I am very worried it could be something like herpes.....It didnt itch and there was no rash...like it says for herpes.....It is one swolen bump that i pop open and the same stuff everyone describes comes out. This is my second or 3rd time getting it. Does anyone think i may have herpes or just another infected bump?Please help. The only difference is that i am sexually active and everyone else seems to be not.....please help

[No worries]

No worries - this can recur and it is more than likely staph as mentioned above.  The area you mention is prone to this due to moisture, bacteria, friction, etc.  It is critical to wash with antibacterial soap as mentioned above.  It is not herpes, STD, etc.  I have had this problem on and off for several years and mine always feel better when I lance it - i know - you shouldnt mess with them, but it seems to relieve the tremendous pain.  I would ask your doctor about staph in the genital area.  Mine appear on my inner thighs, inner and outer labia at various times.  I can go months without one and then have a couple in a matter of weeks.

[No worries]

http://www.hivinfo.us/staph.html

[ebonyxdoll]

omg this is actually good for me to know. I shave my vaginal area completly bald down there, and there's like little bumps but no problem right??? It's from shaving i beleive,but i've caught this hard bump....like right next to my inner thigh,but on the outside of my outer left vagina lip. And i've been so worried on what it could be...i can't really talk to my mom about it because we're not "that close" even if i do she'll say i have some std from being a *****, but besides that it feels like a rock,but doesn't hurt me at all. So i'm glad to know it's not an std ^_^ Thnx.

[bcs1234]

It could be Hiradenitis suppurativa - check it out on the web.  This is what I have, sounds like what most of you are describing.  It took a while for the doctor to figure it out.

[brit710]

I have the exact same problem. It feels like a rock and its two little bumps right next to each other. I noticed it when I got out of the shower. I shave around my genital area, so I thought it was something else because I have never seen it before. I looked up all signs of herpes, and it didn't sound like it. just a little painful bump. I picked at it and thats when it started to hurt. I am not a virgin, but all have been protected sex. I haven't had sex recently or enough, so I am guessing its a cyst.

[Potsy121564]

I have had a pea size hard cyst in the vaginal lip area for nearly 8 years. Yesterday it grows to the size of a small gumball.  Hard and hurts some when touching.  Does this sound like a boil?

[jeffysgirl]

About 4 days ago, my vagina starting inching really really bad and is sooo painful it put me in tears. 2 days after this, when i woke up my stomach hurt so bad and i went to the bathroom and there was so much blood. i figured it was my period (ALTHOUGH IM NOT SUPPOSED TO HAVE IT FOR ANOTHER WEEK AND A HALF) but now im worried because is so heavy. its really unusual and its still so painful and itching like crazy. its also swollen. im really need help. please.

someone please please help me.
thanks.

[rnk87]

Hi.  I think I have a similar problem but I'm not sure if its the same and i'm worried that it might be herpes.  I have this sore on one side of the vaginal outer lip that started as just a hard lump. then after a few days it became an open sore that looks like a canker sore if anyone's ever had those.  it really hurts and is sort of enlarged.  There isn't really anything to "pop" in terms of blood and pus but there's this white coating.  I looked at descriptions of herpes too and it doesn't seem like it because there's only one, but i'm worried.  I've only ever had protected sex but oral sex a few times unprotected.  any ideas?  Occasionally I get head-like lumps on my inner thighs as well.  I don't get cold sores, though I used to get canker sores a lot.

Thanks for any help!  

[chasingkate]

Hi, I've had this problem for nearly a week now. I thought it was normal because I had my period around the time i noticed it. But I have two spots right above my vagina's lips, somewhat near my underwear lines. now its not this same problem, but its inside me. I've never noticed this with a period before, and I don't have my period anymore. So I'm not sure if its just swollen or something but I'm really worried about it. If anyone knows anything that would be great! Also it hurt more when I had my period, and only hurts now when I press on it. :/

[TiredOfThis342]

this sounds very much like what im going through right now, im only 21 yrs old, and ive been going through this since i was about 15, one GYN told me that the culture he had taken came back as MRSA, a staph infection, it cleared up for a minute but it came back, this is so depressing and i just don't know what to do. i get these hard lumps under my genital areas sometimes 2 or 3 at a time but in different areas, sometimes puss comes out and sometimes it doesnt, i had to have one of them surgicly removed because it had gotten so big and painful, im just tired of this and no doctor is telling me why i am going through or what is wrong with me...Do you guys?

[fransua]

Hi to all of you out there. I too have a lump on the left inside of my vaginal lips. I am 65, so age has nothing to do with it. I am told. Check into Bartholin's Gland cyst.  this may be your problems. but, what ever you do, GO TO A DOCTOR.  this could be nothing, yet it could be something bad, and if you put it off, well,  we should all want to take better care of our selves, especially with our organs.  

[bcharisse]

I am so relieved to find other women sharing my same problem. I had this bump come up, it hurt (SO BAD) to where I could sit or walk comfortably. I was worried that it would just get worse and worse. Today when I got out of the shower it was oozing puss and blood! I was disgusted, but it felt so incredibly better. I just checked it again and it's STILL oozing. That can't be good I'm thinking. I'm 18 and I haven't been to GYN yet. I'm nervous and I don't want to think about it being Herpes or some STD! I was tested for all STDS after my rape last year, all came back negative. I haven't had any unprotected sex since, and very little at that. I'm hoping it's just the clogged pore? What do you women recommend to help it heal?

[iris986]

How to get rid of boils,even in your private areas. First take a really hot bath which will open your pores up then take alcohol on a cottonball and rub the area real good. You have to do this once to twice a day and it will cause the skin on the boil to thin and rupture. It usually only takes 2-3 days of this for that to happen, My gynecologist wife taught me that trick.

[Cherie762]

agree with Iris hot as you can take bath soaks will draw the "cyst, or bump" to a head..epsom salts in the water help too,,,,,be careful,,,, a Bartholin's Gland cyst can in some cases make one ill,,it happened to me I was quite ill for 2 weeks had to go on heavy antibiotics  some" toxins" had gotten into my blood,,,,,another thing besides taking hot baths and dealing with at home is

go to any clinic,,,they will lance(cut) and drain the boil,,it only hurts for a few seconds and the relief after was worth it to me I was advised to do the salt water baths after to preven infectio...these are common Ladies   if in doubt of course rule out STDs

[blondieblue877]

I have had a few that reoccur on my inner thigh... im really worried im 19 and have had multiple sexual partners, but we alwyas used condoms... mine is red and swollen and when i squeezed it puss and blood came out. However, mine was not very painful like you guys described! So im wondering if it is something different or if its on my inner thigh so it doesnt hurt as much?? Does anyone else have them on their inner thigh?? I have had a staph infection in my sinuses a year ago so idk if that would be why...

[EricSeaside]

Hi, Anyone heard of the opposite of a bump? .A recurring open sore with some depth in a woman's genital area? My girlfriend get one in the same place regularly and it never fills in and heals. It is not accompanied by any other herpes lesions or sores. It goes a half inch deep or so and is painful. She is from eastern europe and the doctors she has seen don't know what it is.

[mokakmkk]

Dear  No worries, colet, I don't know your identities or whether you are checking up to this site up to now.  Thank you very much for your information on Sep 11,and  Sep 24 , 2007 .

I have had the same problem over 15 years now and was so afraid whether this is an STD. I had not have any sexual attachment until I got married to my husband and he is healthy. But I was sexually abused whn I was a small child  ( 6 yrs old ) and I haven't told my husband any thing about that horrid incident. From the day that I noticed these things ,that  is about when I am 15 years old ,the fear that these things could be a STD has haunted me.

Now I am so much revealed. Therefore I cannot thank you both enough.

[1StarrGazer]

Hey everyone, I was looking for answers about this problem that just happened not to long ago, about 4, 5 days. I have a few lumps around my vaginal lips and below the opening of it aswell, I am young so I have no idea what this is, When I first knew they was there is when I went to the restroom and it started to burn badly, So I went to pat it off dry and it felt a sting when I tried to, and so I looked to check it would and I had a few lumps around my vaginal lips on the bottom on the enterance of it, It scared me at first but then I thought it might be a few ingrown hairs so I got the twisers and pulled all the hairs that I thought was causing the problem [which hurt like HELL] but after awhile of letting the puss come out, it felt kinda of better so I patted it down with ice water which was painful, and put some antibiodic on them and it felt abit better aswell, So I left it. And the next morning they still was there and it was hurting, So I tried to squeeze the puss out of it, and I dont know if I squeezed to hard or it was bleeding on its own, I couldn't tell, When I sit down it hurts so bad and it kinda hurts when i walk also, I am scared because My boyfriend and I was having sex and I told him not to insert himself into my vagina but he slipped and it went inside of it, and it started up like 3 days after it, So I am very scared that he might have something and he as not told me and it is std?? I am scared to death about it, I am too scared to go to anyone and take me to the doctor and get it checked out, So please give me a reply back on this problem.

[nurse2005]

i myself have been dealing with this prob. for many yrs.  i am in my late 40s, had a hystorectomy but kept both overies--HORMONE PRODUCERS!!  i always got these boils about a wk. before my period-anywhere from 1-7 at a time.  i still get them-i think because i still have my overies.  another reason that i believe these are related to hormones is because i was on the depo shot for about 2-3 yrs. before my surgery & never got a boil!  as soon as the shot was dc, the boils started again.  however i read one comment about a place resembling a canker sore.  i too had a place like that just outside the vag. opening.  i noticed it because it slightly burned upon wiping after urination.  gyn told me it was nothing to be concerned about but ck'd for any std.  all neg.  said no need to culture it.  i didn't feel good about that decision, so i went to a gp. (i'm a nurse, worked with this dr, & had much confidence in him).  he did a punch biopsy & yes, it was cancerous, carcinoma in situ.  thank God Almighty for gut feelings!  as for the boils though, they are just something we have to deal with i guess, cause i've been to several drs. & they tell me this is a common prob in women, not to worry.  to all of you......i feel your pain!!!

[kharyzma572]

Hi,

I am a 24 yo female. I just had what I thought was the same boil you guys speak of. It was so swollen like an abscess it started out small and got huge. After a couple hot baths and 2 days later while I was using the bathroom at school it just started oozing whitish pus and blood and kept on oozing. Although me and my partner are monogamous I am worried it might be herpes. The fact that I had muscle pain lower back and buttocks during this ordeal makes me think it might be herpes. Although not that it burst it looks more like an open sore lesion with a hardish lump right beneath. Also I think I may have cold and flu like symptoms while this happened. Someone please right back and tell how the abscess/boil looked after it oozed out the pus and blood and if you had any flu like or muscle aches during the ordeal?

Thank YOu

[17yearsold]

OMG I think I had the same kinda issue...  I had this lowkey bump at the very inside top of my vagina and I was FREAKING out that it was genital warts or Herpes! I popped it one day and blood came out... Then it got rele small and looked lyk a popped pimple... Im scared too go to da DOctor tho! I wld be devistated if it was an STD!!!
~*17 yeard old*~

[nkisu]

OMG THANK HEAVENS IT AIN'T HERPES! i've had these FREAKING things 4 about 2 years now and they're SORE AS HELL. jUST recently i got one right next to my a**hole. I haven't been able to walk or sit properly, soooooooo uncomfortable, even when i move just the slightest bit. I can't pop it coz it hurts WAY too much, so i'm not sure if its been oozing, but i've had these things b4 and kno that they'll probably go away. Finally i've found the cure!

THANX!