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Very worried.. not sure how much more I can take
Hello all
First off, I want to thank anyone who will take the time to answer this, and I know all that post are very worried and all that answer are not doctors and can only give advice.
I will try to be brief, I do shave down there and since Halloween, I will get a pimple after shaving, but recently the fact of that has been really bothering me, so I bought new more expensive razors and decided it was because I wasn't using shaving cream that was causing that, so this past time I used that , stopped using fabric softener, etc. Made alot of changes, this past week, I got 3 "pimple".. all in the pubic hair, one kind of right in the middle, I was able to pop it, it went away in a few weeks, the other 2 are the issue, I've been OBSESSING over this, looking ever chance I get. They are on the right side, about an inch from the crease of my leg, the first one was only about the size of a pin head, it was painful, I aggrevated, popped it before it was ready, not to be gross , but kind of a 1/4" white "lace" of hard white stuff came out, went right away, but I still felt pain in that area, next morning grabbed the mirror, about 1/2" from that one was another one, this one only blood came out of. I know it sounds bad, but Im freaking out, Ive put everything on it, I had bad skin and my dermotologist has retired, but I put everything I have on it and I know Ive aggrevated it, it hasn't spread to anything else, not oozing or scabbing, but it is still very sore. Ive made an appointment for tuesday. I asked the nurse if it's common for a first OB to show up only in that area. She said it sounds like it could be an ingrown hair and to put neosporin on it and to come in sooner if it gets worse, but when I told her about the first one and then that one showing up next to it, she sounded more concerned. I've been driving myself crazy reading everything I can find on the interent. I feel like I have so many symptoms and am 100% certain I have this. I have to also have a vulva biopsy on tuesday along with this exam to see if the VIN I was treated for in 2009 is back. Just getting to be too much. Anyone who has HSV, have you had non stop OBs for a few months? This has been going on since Oct and just wondering.
Thank you again in advance.
First off, I want to thank anyone who will take the time to answer this, and I know all that post are very worried and all that answer are not doctors and can only give advice.
I will try to be brief, I do shave down there and since Halloween, I will get a pimple after shaving, but recently the fact of that has been really bothering me, so I bought new more expensive razors and decided it was because I wasn't using shaving cream that was causing that, so this past time I used that , stopped using fabric softener, etc. Made alot of changes, this past week, I got 3 "pimple".. all in the pubic hair, one kind of right in the middle, I was able to pop it, it went away in a few weeks, the other 2 are the issue, I've been OBSESSING over this, looking ever chance I get. They are on the right side, about an inch from the crease of my leg, the first one was only about the size of a pin head, it was painful, I aggrevated, popped it before it was ready, not to be gross , but kind of a 1/4" white "lace" of hard white stuff came out, went right away, but I still felt pain in that area, next morning grabbed the mirror, about 1/2" from that one was another one, this one only blood came out of. I know it sounds bad, but Im freaking out, Ive put everything on it, I had bad skin and my dermotologist has retired, but I put everything I have on it and I know Ive aggrevated it, it hasn't spread to anything else, not oozing or scabbing, but it is still very sore. Ive made an appointment for tuesday. I asked the nurse if it's common for a first OB to show up only in that area. She said it sounds like it could be an ingrown hair and to put neosporin on it and to come in sooner if it gets worse, but when I told her about the first one and then that one showing up next to it, she sounded more concerned. I've been driving myself crazy reading everything I can find on the interent. I feel like I have so many symptoms and am 100% certain I have this. I have to also have a vulva biopsy on tuesday along with this exam to see if the VIN I was treated for in 2009 is back. Just getting to be too much. Anyone who has HSV, have you had non stop OBs for a few months? This has been going on since Oct and just wondering.
Thank you again in advance.
yeah it does get totally annoying to have to keep going back over and over again. I can tell you from my own experience that herpes lesions on the buttocks were never something I'd confuse as a pimple for long. They were itchy like a mosquito bite initially and then looked like a zit gone bad after a day or two and they stuck around forever to annoy the heck out of me. hard to walk around itching your bum in public and then making faces because after the first scratch it started to hurt.
maybe try some soaks in the tubby with epsom salts thrown in this weekend and a glass of wine ( for medicinal purposes of course )? I think they work better when used together ;)
maybe try some soaks in the tubby with epsom salts thrown in this weekend and a glass of wine ( for medicinal purposes of course )? I think they work better when used together ;)
I bet that's what my name comes up as when I call there. lol And I'm sure my doctor knows my privates better than his own wife's by now.
That's just it, he's been telling me nothing is making him look like Im having an outbreak down there. And the testing was all negative. He said the nerve feeling Im probably feeling is from being cut twice due to the surgeries. I did take anti-virals for 5 days this past week when I stumbled upon that pimple upon my butt last week. He's never tested me for yeast or bacterial infections. To be honest, you are the only one who has mentioned that to me. I think (well that, and because Im feeling like a nutcase lately) lol, that's why I ask you for your advice.
I did alittle more examing last night, and in the past year, Ive had to have 2 cyst in the hair area lanced, and I looked and I still have a bump left over from both of them and I think that is what the "newer" bump i thought was, cause it hasn't changed in 2 days.
I'm thinking maybe it's time to buy a chastity belt, lock it up for a year and unplug the computer ! lol
That's just it, he's been telling me nothing is making him look like Im having an outbreak down there. And the testing was all negative. He said the nerve feeling Im probably feeling is from being cut twice due to the surgeries. I did take anti-virals for 5 days this past week when I stumbled upon that pimple upon my butt last week. He's never tested me for yeast or bacterial infections. To be honest, you are the only one who has mentioned that to me. I think (well that, and because Im feeling like a nutcase lately) lol, that's why I ask you for your advice.
I did alittle more examing last night, and in the past year, Ive had to have 2 cyst in the hair area lanced, and I looked and I still have a bump left over from both of them and I think that is what the "newer" bump i thought was, cause it hasn't changed in 2 days.
I'm thinking maybe it's time to buy a chastity belt, lock it up for a year and unplug the computer ! lol
why not buy a "hysterical female" tee shirt to start wearing when you go to be seen? he he he
sometimes it does seem like you might as well buy your own chair to have with your name on it in the waiting room. I had to go monthly to my gyn for over a year once. We joked he'd be able to recognize my nether regions in a line up...lol. I'd give it until monday and if things aren't better, go and be seen and get a proper exam and testing for yeast and bacterial infections. that gives you the weekend to give your genitals a little extra tlc to see if this is just all irritation from last weekend. if it feels like a herpes recurrence, take a round of antivirals to cover that too.
it's so much fun being female sometimes isn't it?
sometimes it does seem like you might as well buy your own chair to have with your name on it in the waiting room. I had to go monthly to my gyn for over a year once. We joked he'd be able to recognize my nether regions in a line up...lol. I'd give it until monday and if things aren't better, go and be seen and get a proper exam and testing for yeast and bacterial infections. that gives you the weekend to give your genitals a little extra tlc to see if this is just all irritation from last weekend. if it feels like a herpes recurrence, take a round of antivirals to cover that too.
it's so much fun being female sometimes isn't it?
Hi Grace
I was hoping I would be done with this, but need your advice once again. Was back at the doctor on saturday. I had "stumbled" upon a pimple on my butt, he said thats all it was, said if it was a herpes outbreak, I wouldn't have just stumbled upon it, I would have been feeling it before and have been like "WHAT is going on back there"... he looked me over again, said nothing looked abnormal, said maybe the "Cut" feelings I was having is from nerve damage I had from my surgeries. That night I went on a date I probably shouldn't have, drinking was involved, don't want to get into the details, but I had to take the "morning after pill" because of what happened. Felt like total crap the first two days. Now Im noticing in my hair area (again.. where this whole email first started, lol) that I had a small painful bump on tuesday, some solid white stuff came out, then fluid. Ok, figured maybe an ingrown hair cause I shaved alittle over a week ago for the first time. But then last night, I started feeling feverish, right leg kinda achy and that side of my vagina was sore to the touch, grabbed the mirror when I got home and I could feel what felt like another little bump closer to the leg , had to really seach it out, almost 1/2 the size of an eraser head. Looked like it had alittle black head either in it,next to it, hard to tell , holding a flashlight in one hand and mirror in the other. But this one I would say almost looks like a blister which scars me. I squeezed the skin and got the black head out the the "blister" is still there, not changing, looks flat, not quite bubbled. And my vagina looks alittle raw (not sure if it's what happened over the weekend)... I feel like I can't call my doctor AGAIN, I was just there saturday, this will be the 5th time going to see him this year over this, he's going to think Im insane over this.
I was hoping I would be done with this, but need your advice once again. Was back at the doctor on saturday. I had "stumbled" upon a pimple on my butt, he said thats all it was, said if it was a herpes outbreak, I wouldn't have just stumbled upon it, I would have been feeling it before and have been like "WHAT is going on back there"... he looked me over again, said nothing looked abnormal, said maybe the "Cut" feelings I was having is from nerve damage I had from my surgeries. That night I went on a date I probably shouldn't have, drinking was involved, don't want to get into the details, but I had to take the "morning after pill" because of what happened. Felt like total crap the first two days. Now Im noticing in my hair area (again.. where this whole email first started, lol) that I had a small painful bump on tuesday, some solid white stuff came out, then fluid. Ok, figured maybe an ingrown hair cause I shaved alittle over a week ago for the first time. But then last night, I started feeling feverish, right leg kinda achy and that side of my vagina was sore to the touch, grabbed the mirror when I got home and I could feel what felt like another little bump closer to the leg , had to really seach it out, almost 1/2 the size of an eraser head. Looked like it had alittle black head either in it,next to it, hard to tell , holding a flashlight in one hand and mirror in the other. But this one I would say almost looks like a blister which scars me. I squeezed the skin and got the black head out the the "blister" is still there, not changing, looks flat, not quite bubbled. And my vagina looks alittle raw (not sure if it's what happened over the weekend)... I feel like I can't call my doctor AGAIN, I was just there saturday, this will be the 5th time going to see him this year over this, he's going to think Im insane over this.
the hormone changes make us more vulnerable to vaginitis in general as well as vaginal dryness start to become an issue which leads to more issues in general too.
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