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Skin fissures after sex??
So I'm hoping someone can help me out! In September I had a really horrible yeast infection (my first one) and I thought it was an STD, so I made an emergency appointment to get tested. I had fissures all over my vulva (and the worst ones were in the back of the vagina, and they were huge! Symmetrical, and grew to almost an inch long. The others were smaller and circular). My test results came back positive for yeast and HSV-1 (both by culture only), but negative for everything else. I was devastated that my boyfriend had given me herpes, and it caused a lot of problems in our relationship. I thought it was weird that the sores didnt react to anti-virals, but would react to antibiotic cream. But I had resigned myself to the fact that it was my first outbreak of HSV-1 genitally.
In Feb (5 months later) I changed my birth control from Seasonele (which was amazing!) to Yaz because my insurance wouldnt cover Seasonele. Within a few weeks I thought I was having prodromal symptoms of my second herpes OB, but nothing ever showed. There was a redness and irritation on the outer surface of the vagina (the part covered by underwear), it was also slightly itchy. This lasted for about a month, with the symptoms getting better and then worse. In March my boyfriend and I had rough sex that was pretty dry, and he got a yeast infection a few days later. We thought he was all the way better when we had sex again, but then I started experiencing the same symptoms! I started getting the fissures in the back again, and slowly little round sores began to show up. I went to a different Dr immediately and got another culture and a full STD work up. The reason for the second culture was because my follow up blood test for the HSV-1 antibodies had been negative a week prior! So my first Dr said that it was likely there was an error in the lab and I had a false positive culture.
The second culture also came back negative for everything except yeast. The second Dr said he couldnt comment on my first results, but he thinks that this is just how my body reacts to a yeast infection. The first Dr was notified of the results, and after discussing my case with the entire practice (one Dr who is an expert on herpes), they pronounced me negative for herpes. I have yet to have a positive blood test for any herpes antibodies.
But now every time I have sex, the fissures come up the next day!!! The only thing that has changed is my birth control, not my partner. These fissures are always in the same location, and tend to not appear/go away with a topical yeast infection cream. Now I have scars where the fissures usually show up!! And my boyfriend and I are always nervous to have sex in case its "too rough" and the fissures return. We even went out and bought lube (which I have never needed prior to switching to Yaz) and make sure there is plenty of lubrication every time we have sex.
Does anyone have any advice?? I want my old sex life back!! Without having to worry about skin yeast infections!
In Feb (5 months later) I changed my birth control from Seasonele (which was amazing!) to Yaz because my insurance wouldnt cover Seasonele. Within a few weeks I thought I was having prodromal symptoms of my second herpes OB, but nothing ever showed. There was a redness and irritation on the outer surface of the vagina (the part covered by underwear), it was also slightly itchy. This lasted for about a month, with the symptoms getting better and then worse. In March my boyfriend and I had rough sex that was pretty dry, and he got a yeast infection a few days later. We thought he was all the way better when we had sex again, but then I started experiencing the same symptoms! I started getting the fissures in the back again, and slowly little round sores began to show up. I went to a different Dr immediately and got another culture and a full STD work up. The reason for the second culture was because my follow up blood test for the HSV-1 antibodies had been negative a week prior! So my first Dr said that it was likely there was an error in the lab and I had a false positive culture.
The second culture also came back negative for everything except yeast. The second Dr said he couldnt comment on my first results, but he thinks that this is just how my body reacts to a yeast infection. The first Dr was notified of the results, and after discussing my case with the entire practice (one Dr who is an expert on herpes), they pronounced me negative for herpes. I have yet to have a positive blood test for any herpes antibodies.
But now every time I have sex, the fissures come up the next day!!! The only thing that has changed is my birth control, not my partner. These fissures are always in the same location, and tend to not appear/go away with a topical yeast infection cream. Now I have scars where the fissures usually show up!! And my boyfriend and I are always nervous to have sex in case its "too rough" and the fissures return. We even went out and bought lube (which I have never needed prior to switching to Yaz) and make sure there is plenty of lubrication every time we have sex.
Does anyone have any advice?? I want my old sex life back!! Without having to worry about skin yeast infections!
Lube *****. I used Ortho-tricyclin before. It cleared up my skin and I had no problems. That's a shame about Yaz it sounds soo great on tv.
Also, that is so crazy all the drama u have been through. I hope you don't have anymore problems. There is so much the medical community still doesn't know about the body. Thanks for posting this.
Also, that is so crazy all the drama u have been through. I hope you don't have anymore problems. There is so much the medical community still doesn't know about the body. Thanks for posting this.
Ok, I know you want to please your boyfriend and you want to have sex, but if you are dry or it hurts you he needs to stop. After I started having sex with my (now) husband he would stop and couldn't even have sex with me if it hurt me or he thought it was hurting me (and I wouldn't tell him because I wanted to please him). At first, it really hurt my feelings. Noone had ever done that before! I had only been with four people before him but they never paid that much attention. I'm not going to try to tell u what to do but just think about it.
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