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What is going on down there??
I have been suffering from really bad anxiety over all this the last few days. My vagina has sent me for a loop and I dont know what to do!
I had a full STD panel done after a sexual incident a couple months ago, including a western blot test for herpes due to anxiety, wanted to cover ALL the bases. I am from the US where a gold standard test is available so I got it.
After this test (April 30) I had unprotected oral and protected vaginal sex two times in the last month.
Fast forward to last week and I started feeling some burning and discomfort around my vagina, about 6 days ago.
Sunday night I noticed a small paper cut looking thing on the inside of my labia minora, when I woke up Monday there were about 4 more. I was nearly certain this is herpes but just don't understand how it is possible I contracted it from this contact. I went to the clinic Monday and explained all of this, yet she did not see anything to swab.
She also did not swab for anything else (bacterial) due to the fact that I was having mild symptoms and it seemed like mostly my anxiety, she did say I looked "red" down there but that is it. Told me to use topical OTC cream and sent me home.
To this day I have been experiencing noticeable itching/burning especially when monistat is applied, but not when other creams are, I am wondering if anyone believes this to be symptoms of herpes without sores? Yeast? Skin infection? Or what else it may be? I am colonized for group B strep but I do not think that is it.
Or if any gals out there have had similar symptoms of a dry, red, uncomfortable downstairs and what it turned out to be? I have been experiencing symptoms since last week and have gone to bed every night expecting to wake up and see ulcers, blisters or visible cuts down there in the morning, they have not appeared
If anyone has seen anything out there like this I would be more than grateful to know, doctors to this point have not been much help!
I had a full STD panel done after a sexual incident a couple months ago, including a western blot test for herpes due to anxiety, wanted to cover ALL the bases. I am from the US where a gold standard test is available so I got it.
After this test (April 30) I had unprotected oral and protected vaginal sex two times in the last month.
Fast forward to last week and I started feeling some burning and discomfort around my vagina, about 6 days ago.
Sunday night I noticed a small paper cut looking thing on the inside of my labia minora, when I woke up Monday there were about 4 more. I was nearly certain this is herpes but just don't understand how it is possible I contracted it from this contact. I went to the clinic Monday and explained all of this, yet she did not see anything to swab.
She also did not swab for anything else (bacterial) due to the fact that I was having mild symptoms and it seemed like mostly my anxiety, she did say I looked "red" down there but that is it. Told me to use topical OTC cream and sent me home.
To this day I have been experiencing noticeable itching/burning especially when monistat is applied, but not when other creams are, I am wondering if anyone believes this to be symptoms of herpes without sores? Yeast? Skin infection? Or what else it may be? I am colonized for group B strep but I do not think that is it.
Or if any gals out there have had similar symptoms of a dry, red, uncomfortable downstairs and what it turned out to be? I have been experiencing symptoms since last week and have gone to bed every night expecting to wake up and see ulcers, blisters or visible cuts down there in the morning, they have not appeared
If anyone has seen anything out there like this I would be more than grateful to know, doctors to this point have not been much help!
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