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Vaginal Fissures
I am 20 years old and just recently found this site. Like most of you I am so relieved to know that I'm not alone. About 2 months ago I started experiencing vaginal tears on my perineum but it didn't happen until I messed with someone who used Trojan condoms. Like most of you I thought I was having a Herpes outbreak. The cuts healed within 2 to 3 days but they come back after rough intercourse. I've read alot about herpes and all the books and website articles say herpes come in the form of blisters that are filled with fluid and I've experienced nothing like that. I haven't been to the doctor yet because I am so scared. People that I've been involved with in the past few years are clean and my last pap was normal. I tested for having no STD's so I really don't know. Like the rest of you I'm waiting for an answer. So if anybody gets good news about this situation please post it for those of us who haven't found answers.
Old post I know, but wanted to say that I feel for you not having kids because doctors were remiss with diagnosis. I too am probably too old now to have kids, if not I am no doubt too damaged- my endocervical canal was significantly damaged, ironically during a fertility procedure. Anyway, best wishes from another childless victim of modern medicine.
Old post I know, but wanted to say that I feel for you missing out on having kids (and love making). That's really remiss of the doctors too. I too am probably too old now to have kids, but if not, I'm probably too damaged. My cervical canal was damaged during a fertility procedure, which ironically has probably rendered me completely infertile. Best wishes, anyway, from another childless victim of modern medicine,
About a year ago I was rapped. Luckily i new the guy but he is what you would call a "man *****" I had only had sex with one other person before I started receiving these paper like cuts around my vaginal area. But the strange thing is I received these cuts about 4 months after we had sex the cuts started out as a rash I would scratch it of course then that irritated the area even more eventually the cuts turned into little red bugs but when I received my period about a week later they went away. I got tested in August and all tests came back negative, I just had a yeast infection and they prescribed me a one time pill that cleared everything up.... That was back in June. I am now receiving these cuts again and it's November. The cuts are around the same area but i have put this lotion on them and it burned. i have out neosporin on them and it spread (this is gross) but it has spread to my anus. When I go to the bathroom there is "mucus" in my stool and that could mean I have cancer,or even crohns diese I'm very nervous. I don't know any of my medical history because I was adopted... But They burn and itch and it's to the point where I wake up in the middle of the night and to take a bath because the water soothes the cuts. I really need to find a way to cure this because I ride horses for a living and it's to the point where I can't because it gets so painful. Should I go to the earth department like I did last time? Or the obgyn? Or is that the same thing? I need advice!!!:(((((
I have had the same issue going on 3 years now. I always got what looked to be little tears that would work thier way down to my anus. They always seemed to appear after intercorse orwhen i was about to menstrate. My dr. Told me that it stems from a ph imbalance that can be caused from many different things that irritate the skin in that area. Anything from being on antibiotics or the soap that you or your partner uses. I have basically switched to everything hypo alergenic when it comes to anything down there and have not had any issues for about 3 months now. Hope this helps. Anytime something is not normal with your body concerning that area its a scary and stressful situation
One day I was home all day, no panties on all day and noticed an odd feeling down there. So I grabbed my mirror again and looked and it looked like the white fluid like discharged had leaked out of me and dried on my skin. No biggy, I bathed and heavily moisturized the skin in that area (over compensating for the TAZORAC applications) Wanted my skin to get back to its healthiest thick ness.
Now we are at June 23, 2013.
I felt a pain down there, looked and saw 2 tears in my perineum. We to pee, wiped and scratched my labia majora. Wipe it again and BLOOD about a half an inch in length. scratched the other side of my labia and then wiped and MORE Blood..... At this point Im like man this Vagina is too much responsibility! I layered on some essential oils, to try and help it heal. Also noticed 2 tears in the outer fold of my labia majora. I am CERTAIN that the skin down there is too thin.
So I took a bird bath. Cleaned down there, got dressed and head for DEL international Hospital. Got there was told the GYN would not be in for 2 more hours. I left for Nyaho a renowed clinic. Then realized I don't have contact info for them, and don't know when they close or if the GYN is in.
And too tell you the Truth I did not want to be seen by either location because Ghanaians are not particularly open with female issues. So the likelihood that they have seen someone else with similar issues is waaaaay smaller than if I was back in the states. And I did not want to be told I had been cursed or had a slew of possible STD"S. Women don't speak as freely to one another about these things so my resources are limited. Plus as a cash walkin I would have spent $200- $300 for them to say they don't know what it is.... I rather wait until Im back in the states in 2 months. I will certainly consult my doctor. Who previously gave me NYSTAIN cream because the skin around my vaginal was inflamed after a NAIR incident. That CREAM did NOT restore the thickness or durability of my skin in that area.
And yes, Im Ghanaian.
So I came home to google Nyaho, planning to go the next day. Then googled 'frequent vaginal tears' and read a total of 500 posts.
The ones that discussed connections with BC, Stress, PH balance, healthy eating, vitamins, immune system possible compromise, bacteria and such made all tooo much sense to me.
So lastly night, I filled a wash cloth with baking soda, soaked it in water and rested it on my vagina, repeating it several times as the water got cold. This morning I repeated last nights routine, also boiling mineral water mixed with baking soda. I took a bottle cap full of the baking soda water and poured it into my vaginal, and layed with my legs elevated. Then placed the moist wash cloth on my vagina. Repeated this several times. When I bathed I mixed the water with baking soda.
I will continue this for 7 days, but after just a few hours, I do feel like its healing.
After I am done that treatment I mix coconut oil, olive oil and shea butter and rub it on the skin around that area. I want to help the healing process.
For me I KNOW my PH balance must be off, I am VERY, VERY stressed. I am exposed to bacteria that my body is not used to from the bath water, I try to combat it with mixing my bath water with antiseptic, but..... My hormones are probably out of wack, quiting the BC , life itself etc & Im a junk food junkie...I have been think about vitamins for months, now. So I have noticed what my probable triggers are.
It also important for us to realize that as women our bodies change frequently, age, stress, life, environment all factor in and I think age does not determine when things will start to change for you or what could initiate these changes. These are some of the things "MOMMA never said", mine included.
If your experiencing this and don't want too or cant go to the doctor, Google and these threads are you best friend. Try a few LOW RISK (no Tazorac or low amounts of cortisone) home remedies first and see if it helps.
Please lets keep helping one another!
I still think this Vagina is too much responsibility, especially since it hasn't had any action in 4.5 months...
Now we are at June 23, 2013.
I felt a pain down there, looked and saw 2 tears in my perineum. We to pee, wiped and scratched my labia majora. Wipe it again and BLOOD about a half an inch in length. scratched the other side of my labia and then wiped and MORE Blood..... At this point Im like man this Vagina is too much responsibility! I layered on some essential oils, to try and help it heal. Also noticed 2 tears in the outer fold of my labia majora. I am CERTAIN that the skin down there is too thin.
So I took a bird bath. Cleaned down there, got dressed and head for DEL international Hospital. Got there was told the GYN would not be in for 2 more hours. I left for Nyaho a renowed clinic. Then realized I don't have contact info for them, and don't know when they close or if the GYN is in.
And too tell you the Truth I did not want to be seen by either location because Ghanaians are not particularly open with female issues. So the likelihood that they have seen someone else with similar issues is waaaaay smaller than if I was back in the states. And I did not want to be told I had been cursed or had a slew of possible STD"S. Women don't speak as freely to one another about these things so my resources are limited. Plus as a cash walkin I would have spent $200- $300 for them to say they don't know what it is.... I rather wait until Im back in the states in 2 months. I will certainly consult my doctor. Who previously gave me NYSTAIN cream because the skin around my vaginal was inflamed after a NAIR incident. That CREAM did NOT restore the thickness or durability of my skin in that area.
And yes, Im Ghanaian.
So I came home to google Nyaho, planning to go the next day. Then googled 'frequent vaginal tears' and read a total of 500 posts.
The ones that discussed connections with BC, Stress, PH balance, healthy eating, vitamins, immune system possible compromise, bacteria and such made all tooo much sense to me.
So lastly night, I filled a wash cloth with baking soda, soaked it in water and rested it on my vagina, repeating it several times as the water got cold. This morning I repeated last nights routine, also boiling mineral water mixed with baking soda. I took a bottle cap full of the baking soda water and poured it into my vaginal, and layed with my legs elevated. Then placed the moist wash cloth on my vagina. Repeated this several times. When I bathed I mixed the water with baking soda.
I will continue this for 7 days, but after just a few hours, I do feel like its healing.
After I am done that treatment I mix coconut oil, olive oil and shea butter and rub it on the skin around that area. I want to help the healing process.
For me I KNOW my PH balance must be off, I am VERY, VERY stressed. I am exposed to bacteria that my body is not used to from the bath water, I try to combat it with mixing my bath water with antiseptic, but..... My hormones are probably out of wack, quiting the BC , life itself etc & Im a junk food junkie...I have been think about vitamins for months, now. So I have noticed what my probable triggers are.
It also important for us to realize that as women our bodies change frequently, age, stress, life, environment all factor in and I think age does not determine when things will start to change for you or what could initiate these changes. These are some of the things "MOMMA never said", mine included.
If your experiencing this and don't want too or cant go to the doctor, Google and these threads are you best friend. Try a few LOW RISK (no Tazorac or low amounts of cortisone) home remedies first and see if it helps.
Please lets keep helping one another!
I still think this Vagina is too much responsibility, especially since it hasn't had any action in 4.5 months...
I read every comment posted to date and so far I have some things in common with most and NOT with others.
My story: I started taking birth control again , my SO and I had sex. The second or third time we had sex, the tear developed. I noticed it while bathing. I looked at it, it look scary and severe. Like a deep slit just at the opening of my vagina. So I kept checking on it and one day it looked white(ish) around the edges, as if it was trying to heal but couldn't because of moisture or something. So I started putting a & d, shea butter, coconut oil and such on it to help the process. It healed and I brushed it off an occurrence from him being to vigorous or something.
I stopped the BC at this time as well.
Approximately, 2 or 3 weeks later, I started to feel sensitive in that area; possibly slightly itchy. So I would scratch some and look and see in anything had changed in the area. I could tell that my skin was inflamed (red, swollen, hostile) and sensitive but there we no lumps, bumps, cuts or bruises.
One day I walked around for 3.5 hours straight. And the next day I noticed a lump forming on my labia majora, just on the lip. It was small under the skin no pain at all. I kept checking it daily, it was slightly increasing in size. On the 3rd day I got my period and I noticed that it was starting to hurt. So I started googling stuff, feeling sad and depressed.... I stumbled on threads on Bartholin Cysts, swollen lymph node in the groin etc. All the threads on Bartholin cysts said to lancet if it hurt, soak in hot baths, drain it and soak it....
So I checked it a again and it was red, like it had a fever. But it did not have a head or anything. So I tried to lance it(drain it) and nothing came out. Thankfully, cuz I was TERRIFIED of the green ooze people posted about. I just felt like I was poking myself in a sensitive area. Then I soaked by sitting over a bucket filled with close to hot water. Im in Ghana, hot water baths or even bath tubs that fully fill are somewhat difficult.
Then I started filling water bottles with hot water (boiled water) and laying them on the spot. Approximately 2 days of this and it was gone. If I ever even feel like there is a mosquito bite in that area I will put a hot water bottle on it.
Now back to the tears and itch...
The itch became more persistent, sporadic but noticeable. I bought Triple Action Cream and Hydrocortisone cream. I started using then daily. Layering them on my vagina and skin around my butt. I did this daily for about a month or so. Then I would continue it if I felt the slight itch/tingle coming on. I did this for approximately 3/4 months.
It had been a while no itch or tears. So I decided to look at it see if any scars had formed from the tear.
I
laid down and held a mirror between my legs and what did I see??? The skin from my anus to just before the opening of my vagina was dark brown, almost black! I was terrified and shocked. So I ran to the phone and called my mom in the states an RN, to ask her if hydrocortisone could burn your skin.... She said its a steroid and too much , too frequent use would have adverse effects.
I was soo angry with myself, because I had a feeling I was over using the hydrocortisone but kept using it and the (burn) marks were finely demarked between the areas where I layered it and the areas I had not.
So I grabbed some TAZORAC I got from my dermatologist and layered it on the burned areas, I knew that it would peel the skin off and that's what I wanted. Yes I was afraid that it would burn, but was willing to take that chance. I did this everyday, sometimes twice a day for a week or two. The burned skin peeled off, not very dramatically or anything, but my natural completion was restored. The Tazorac never burned me. Once it soaked in I would moisture with essential oil to help the skin adjust to the transition. Plus I wasn't sure if the Tazorac would make the burn worse.
1 month later I started to notice that I was having a slight discharge. Not yellow or clumpy, just whitish and more fluid looking than sticky. It had no smell.
My story: I started taking birth control again , my SO and I had sex. The second or third time we had sex, the tear developed. I noticed it while bathing. I looked at it, it look scary and severe. Like a deep slit just at the opening of my vagina. So I kept checking on it and one day it looked white(ish) around the edges, as if it was trying to heal but couldn't because of moisture or something. So I started putting a & d, shea butter, coconut oil and such on it to help the process. It healed and I brushed it off an occurrence from him being to vigorous or something.
I stopped the BC at this time as well.
Approximately, 2 or 3 weeks later, I started to feel sensitive in that area; possibly slightly itchy. So I would scratch some and look and see in anything had changed in the area. I could tell that my skin was inflamed (red, swollen, hostile) and sensitive but there we no lumps, bumps, cuts or bruises.
One day I walked around for 3.5 hours straight. And the next day I noticed a lump forming on my labia majora, just on the lip. It was small under the skin no pain at all. I kept checking it daily, it was slightly increasing in size. On the 3rd day I got my period and I noticed that it was starting to hurt. So I started googling stuff, feeling sad and depressed.... I stumbled on threads on Bartholin Cysts, swollen lymph node in the groin etc. All the threads on Bartholin cysts said to lancet if it hurt, soak in hot baths, drain it and soak it....
So I checked it a again and it was red, like it had a fever. But it did not have a head or anything. So I tried to lance it(drain it) and nothing came out. Thankfully, cuz I was TERRIFIED of the green ooze people posted about. I just felt like I was poking myself in a sensitive area. Then I soaked by sitting over a bucket filled with close to hot water. Im in Ghana, hot water baths or even bath tubs that fully fill are somewhat difficult.
Then I started filling water bottles with hot water (boiled water) and laying them on the spot. Approximately 2 days of this and it was gone. If I ever even feel like there is a mosquito bite in that area I will put a hot water bottle on it.
Now back to the tears and itch...
The itch became more persistent, sporadic but noticeable. I bought Triple Action Cream and Hydrocortisone cream. I started using then daily. Layering them on my vagina and skin around my butt. I did this daily for about a month or so. Then I would continue it if I felt the slight itch/tingle coming on. I did this for approximately 3/4 months.
It had been a while no itch or tears. So I decided to look at it see if any scars had formed from the tear.
I
laid down and held a mirror between my legs and what did I see??? The skin from my anus to just before the opening of my vagina was dark brown, almost black! I was terrified and shocked. So I ran to the phone and called my mom in the states an RN, to ask her if hydrocortisone could burn your skin.... She said its a steroid and too much , too frequent use would have adverse effects.
I was soo angry with myself, because I had a feeling I was over using the hydrocortisone but kept using it and the (burn) marks were finely demarked between the areas where I layered it and the areas I had not.
So I grabbed some TAZORAC I got from my dermatologist and layered it on the burned areas, I knew that it would peel the skin off and that's what I wanted. Yes I was afraid that it would burn, but was willing to take that chance. I did this everyday, sometimes twice a day for a week or two. The burned skin peeled off, not very dramatically or anything, but my natural completion was restored. The Tazorac never burned me. Once it soaked in I would moisture with essential oil to help the skin adjust to the transition. Plus I wasn't sure if the Tazorac would make the burn worse.
1 month later I started to notice that I was having a slight discharge. Not yellow or clumpy, just whitish and more fluid looking than sticky. It had no smell.
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