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cuts and a tiny open sore on the skin from my vagina to rectum
Hi I have been experiencing for three months now a tiny spotting of blood on my toilet tissue.. I thought it was from my rectum and went to the Docs to tell him my roids had flared up. The Nurse while taking a smear test had a look and said there seemed to be a skin tag on the anus area but it didn't look like it had bled. This was about three months ago.. The smear test came back normal. The Doc gave me some Anusol which didn't seem to be working.. AT ALL
Thursday I went to Back to the Doctors because my husband found a spot like raised area on the perineum and when he dabbed it with a tissue, blood and a little yellowy green (Sorry Yuck) came out of it. (It really is a tiny little hole with two like paper cuts by the side of it.. So of we both my husband and I trundled back to the doctor and had him take another look.
The Doctor said no anul fissures and no external hemroids. However it was a bit red and gave me some Betodine Iodine , this was Thursday.. WOW does it sting.. Any way after a few days its now Monday I seem to have a baring down feeling around the rectum area and it is very painful to sit on.. Hubby has continued to put Iodine on it after I washed it with a watered down Tea Trea solution.
The little whole abscess like thing and the paper cuts do not seem to be healing. I have stopped putting so much Iodine on the cuts now and covering it with Vaseline
Has any one else been expereincing this.. I am at my wits end and even talking about if I wernt here.... Over reacting?
Poor hubby has his head and face forward there a few times a day..OH Dear
Thursday I went to Back to the Doctors because my husband found a spot like raised area on the perineum and when he dabbed it with a tissue, blood and a little yellowy green (Sorry Yuck) came out of it. (It really is a tiny little hole with two like paper cuts by the side of it.. So of we both my husband and I trundled back to the doctor and had him take another look.
The Doctor said no anul fissures and no external hemroids. However it was a bit red and gave me some Betodine Iodine , this was Thursday.. WOW does it sting.. Any way after a few days its now Monday I seem to have a baring down feeling around the rectum area and it is very painful to sit on.. Hubby has continued to put Iodine on it after I washed it with a watered down Tea Trea solution.
The little whole abscess like thing and the paper cuts do not seem to be healing. I have stopped putting so much Iodine on the cuts now and covering it with Vaseline
Has any one else been expereincing this.. I am at my wits end and even talking about if I wernt here.... Over reacting?
Poor hubby has his head and face forward there a few times a day..OH Dear
I also have a sort of tear right at the outside of my vagina, near to the anus. It doesn't bleed!
I'm new at sex though- so I could be really tight, or just not turned on enough.
Either way, it takes any pleasure out of sex. It really hurts.
I'm new at sex though- so I could be really tight, or just not turned on enough.
Either way, it takes any pleasure out of sex. It really hurts.
i just read all of these and im freaking out. ive had the hot and cold chills and body aches since wednesday. its now monday and ive been waiting for my fever witch never came. ive been experiencing pain on my vagina when i pee or whipe and recently i found a sore down by my vagina whole. i freaked out and went to the doctor. she told me that it just looked like an ingrown hair and to put bacitracin on it and it it will heal within a few days to a week well as two days or so went by it grew a lot in size and was very puffy and had a white layer in it. it also has some blisters that were full of puss i decided that i was going to just pull the hair out myself. i found 11 hairs in the area. since i pulled them out the pain isnt as bad but the area hasnt healed in anyway. it still looks exactly that same. that was yesterday. this morning when i woke up theres another sore that looks exactly how my first one did but this one is more at the top of my vagina. (both sores are on the lip) im so scared. can someone please help me? i need to know what this is. im only 18 years old.
Yikes! I have the same symptoms as most of the above! I have three paper like cuts on my perineum. These paper like cuts have been here for about 7 months. They don't go away. I also have spots of blood on my tissue when I go to wipe. I went to my OBGYN and she diagnosed me with a yeast infection and told me to watch the area and if it didn't heal we would do a test for Herpes. I had a blood test done to test for herpes and it came back negative. These paper like cuts itch so bad and I would just like them to go away so I can enjoy my sex life again! If anyone has any updates or remedies please share! Thanks!
I'm only 18yr. and I'm going through the same thing. I have small cuts inside my vaginal area on the lips, and even in between my anal area, and it comes and goes, I haven't had sex in about 8months since the last time I visited my boyfriend. I got checked out at the clinic but they never called me about anything. sometimes it even smells down their, and recently I went to the doctors and the lady just looked and assumed I had a yeast infection. But even though I've been taking the medicine she gave me, the cuts still appear, and sometimes It even hurts. I used to get this really deep itching irritation down their and just feel the need to scratch, and even scratch inside m anal area. What do I do????
For those of you experiencing these cuts/sores, etc., from the vagina to the anal area, or for that matter, even around the inner thigh/buttocks area, I would strongly suggest you request a screening for Herpes (HSV I & II). The descriptions I am reading about are far too familiar, something I went through myself about 2 yrs ago and I was diagnosed with herpes (HSV) as well. Yes there's something most definitely to be said for Behcet's Syndrome, however, it is a rare syndrome...though if herpes testing is negative, I would certainly recommend being tested to rule out Behcet's Syndrome.
Okay, so here's where it gets tricky! Depending on what kind of HSV test is done, has everything to do with how accurate your test result is going to be. If you request to be tested for herpes, you should clarify and insist that you have the most up-to-date testing. The problem for so many years, is that the older tests (which are still commonly used) can't determine which type you may have, so if you suffer from cold sores (which is almost always HSV I), that means the results will come back positive but they won't be able to tell you for which strain, or for that matter, if you might have both HSV I & II. Not to mention, it can take anywhere from 4 - 16 weeks I believe, before the HSV antibodies will appear in blood work...meaning, if you do get tested for the virus before the 16 weeks, the test results can come back negative when you actually do have the virus. The older tests for HSV are not accurate enough and have been far too often misleading with 'false negatives'. PLUS, with the older tests, herpes zoster (shingles) and other strains of herpes-like illnesses (i.e. chicken pox) can also give a 'false positive' result due to the issue of not being able to determine which strain. This is why it is so very important to have the newer testing done, so as to determine which type you may be carrying.
Now for those of you who are saying you've only been with one partner, etc., etc. Unfortunately, herpes is not necessarily transmitted through intercourse...you can actually get herpes on the genitals through oral, if the person performing the oral has HSV I (cold sores, etc), and a person is highly contagious 2-3 days prior to a breakout/obvious sores. It can also be transmitted simply by touch, it is a skin on skin virus and has nothing to do with bodily fluids and such. Yes, any fluid from a genital and/or cold sore is also contagious, but it's transmitted through the skin. Plus, not every person actually has outbreaks and more than 50% of those who have the virus, don't even know they do...hence the reason there's almost no way of knowing when, where or for how long you've had the virus. In can also happen that a person contracts the virus and it lay dormant for months (and sometimes even years), then suddenly a first outbreak occurs. It's rather unsettling really, and it's why the herpes virus has a statistic of 1 in every 3 people are infected and more than 50% of those are unknowingly spreading "the love". Sorry folks, but it's true.
And FYI - it's not uncommon for a female who has genital herpes (which is usually HSV II though it can be HSV I), to have monthly outbreaks that tend to be connected to her menstral cycle, as well as being sensitive to intercourse, or even both. It is usually the first 2-3 yrs after the initial outbreak, that recurrent outbreaks are most frequent...once the body builds up enough antibodies, etc., to fight off the virus when it becomes active, which can take up to a full year or so, that is when the recurrent outbreaks become less and less. So there is light at the end of the tunnel.....
Anyway, sorry for the long post, but it said much to often, "I don't see how it could be herpes when I've only had one partner....etc" The question is, how many partners have they had, and when was the last time they were tested for HSV? Don't forget more than 50% have no idea they have it and many of them won't ever have an outbreak...scary fact indeed. Btw, I thought my b/f was faithful AND truthful when he told me he had been tested for the virus...he lied.
Best of wishes and good luck to all.
Okay, so here's where it gets tricky! Depending on what kind of HSV test is done, has everything to do with how accurate your test result is going to be. If you request to be tested for herpes, you should clarify and insist that you have the most up-to-date testing. The problem for so many years, is that the older tests (which are still commonly used) can't determine which type you may have, so if you suffer from cold sores (which is almost always HSV I), that means the results will come back positive but they won't be able to tell you for which strain, or for that matter, if you might have both HSV I & II. Not to mention, it can take anywhere from 4 - 16 weeks I believe, before the HSV antibodies will appear in blood work...meaning, if you do get tested for the virus before the 16 weeks, the test results can come back negative when you actually do have the virus. The older tests for HSV are not accurate enough and have been far too often misleading with 'false negatives'. PLUS, with the older tests, herpes zoster (shingles) and other strains of herpes-like illnesses (i.e. chicken pox) can also give a 'false positive' result due to the issue of not being able to determine which strain. This is why it is so very important to have the newer testing done, so as to determine which type you may be carrying.
Now for those of you who are saying you've only been with one partner, etc., etc. Unfortunately, herpes is not necessarily transmitted through intercourse...you can actually get herpes on the genitals through oral, if the person performing the oral has HSV I (cold sores, etc), and a person is highly contagious 2-3 days prior to a breakout/obvious sores. It can also be transmitted simply by touch, it is a skin on skin virus and has nothing to do with bodily fluids and such. Yes, any fluid from a genital and/or cold sore is also contagious, but it's transmitted through the skin. Plus, not every person actually has outbreaks and more than 50% of those who have the virus, don't even know they do...hence the reason there's almost no way of knowing when, where or for how long you've had the virus. In can also happen that a person contracts the virus and it lay dormant for months (and sometimes even years), then suddenly a first outbreak occurs. It's rather unsettling really, and it's why the herpes virus has a statistic of 1 in every 3 people are infected and more than 50% of those are unknowingly spreading "the love". Sorry folks, but it's true.
And FYI - it's not uncommon for a female who has genital herpes (which is usually HSV II though it can be HSV I), to have monthly outbreaks that tend to be connected to her menstral cycle, as well as being sensitive to intercourse, or even both. It is usually the first 2-3 yrs after the initial outbreak, that recurrent outbreaks are most frequent...once the body builds up enough antibodies, etc., to fight off the virus when it becomes active, which can take up to a full year or so, that is when the recurrent outbreaks become less and less. So there is light at the end of the tunnel.....
Anyway, sorry for the long post, but it said much to often, "I don't see how it could be herpes when I've only had one partner....etc" The question is, how many partners have they had, and when was the last time they were tested for HSV? Don't forget more than 50% have no idea they have it and many of them won't ever have an outbreak...scary fact indeed. Btw, I thought my b/f was faithful AND truthful when he told me he had been tested for the virus...he lied.
Best of wishes and good luck to all.
There is an ointment called Calmoseptine ointment that is an excellent moisture barrier used for many skin irritations like cuts, scrapes, burns or diaper rash etc.. It has menthol in it and really helps with itching/burning (instantly) and helps to heal quickly. I have only found it online but it worked better than Neosporin, Anusol and many other treatments I tried. You might need to reapply it though when you go to the bathroom. Walgreens.com sells it for $7.99.
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