Hanging piece of hymen

It’s absolutely normal to have some bleeding, it is the result of tearing the hymen, a thin tissue found just inside the vaginal opening. The hymen can be a ring of tissue or just a thin layer of tissue almost covering the vaginal opening. It can have one opening or more. I guess is that you tore one part of the hymen the time that he “fingered “you and tore another part the time you had sex. Are you 100% certain that the skin you’re seeing is a piece of the hymen? Some women have bits of skin hanging down in this area and these are usually t remnants of the hymen, but there is another possibility that the flap of skin is one of the inner lips (labia minor) that surround the vaginal entrance. One of lips is often longer than the other and may seem to hang down, but you don’t have to worry about it, it is perfectly normal. It is designed to cross over the other lip to provide a better 'seal' during standing or sitting. Anyway I don’t think that you should do anything by yourself, I think you should see a gynecologist about it. There are not two women whose anatomy in this area are exactly the same; most have their little unique differences, which are absolutely nothing to worry about.

my hymen just broke even though i've been having sex for years. but now i know there is piece of it hanging out of my vagina, is this bad or what should i do about it.?

The same thing happend to me but i wasnt totally drunk it hurt like HELL!! It was my 1st time with my boyfriend on valentines day. My hymen was split before too from being fingered. Well i asked my gyno n she said u have to deal with till u have a baby and they can snip it then.. i was like whats the use then?? im 16 n have to deal with a hanging hymen till i have kids?? i think that there is some solution out there where they can get rid of the hanging pice of skin because i cant deal with this hanging piece of skin untill im older. Any suggestions??

i have exactly the same problem and it has been causing me pain and bleeding during sex for years. I have a bit hanging down im assuming its hymen but im too embarassed to tell anyone. do i talk to my gp or go to the sexual health clinic to get the problem sorted?

ok, this sounds a lot like my situation.

i got my period when i was really young, and many many times a tampon would get stuck inside of me. i could manage to slide it in along one side of the hymen, but after it expanded, and i tried to pull it out, it would get stuck. sometimes i'd get lucky, and it would come right out. other times, i remember sitting in the bathroom for hours, crying, pulling and pulling and wincing in pain. i would take a deep breath, count to three, and then just try to pull as hard as i could. it was horrible. i remember looking at my vagina in a mirror and seeing a piece of skin blocking the white tampon, and having no idea what it was. i was about 11 years old, and living with my dad and my older brother... needless to say, i never asked anyone about it. i nearly cut it with a pair of scissors several times.

when i finally lost my virginity, i was 15. i was totally drunk and don't really remember much of it. the guy was an as****e and picked me up, passed out, off the floor of a bathroom at a party and carried me to his room. ugh! it was really short, like less than a minute, and i remember it kind of hurt, but not that much. but i was barely conscious. then his girlfriend woke up (she was in the room) and he left me and went and had sex with her instead. very strange experience. there might have been a very tiny bit of blood, but it was not noticeable. i wonder if i weakened the hymen so much with all those years of pulling on it trying to get tampons out.

i had a couple other semi-failed sexual experiences and it wasn't until about three or four years later that i had my first relationship where we actually had sex multiple times. that lasted for over a year.

anyway, sex was always kind of painful for me, and if i spread my legs and look inside my vagina/vulva area, sort of breathing in air to get a good view, there is this very distinct flap of skin that hangs down. it is exactly the way i remember the skin being when it blocked the tampons years and years before. it almost makes the inside of my vagina look heart-shaped. i actually thought for a while that this might be common to all women and might have been the origin of the heart shape itself... not sure if there is anything to this.

anyway, i'm curious if anyone knows anything about this. i'd really like to know if this is part of my hymen. maybe it didn't get broken properly the first time, and part of it stayed there. i'm 26 now. sex is better in that it isn't really painful, but rubbing against this area doesn't really feel good, and almost hurts. i've never come anywhere close to an orgasm during intercourse.

any advice, input, or feedback is really appreciated. sometimes i'm tempted to just cut it off. i know that's a really dumb idea, but i just want a normal working non-painful vagina!

wow. okay..i have the same thing...before i lost my virginity it was a pain tryin to get the tampon out because sometghing would always block it...i used to cray for hours and by the time id get the tampon out..itd be ripped in pieces trying to get it through one of the doorways..(|) righ or left but never straight out cus it would block it. anyway so i lost my v and i can now wear tampons ..but i now have one single medium sized stringy piec of skin hanging out of my vagina...i could pinch it and not feel anythin..sometimes just wanna cut it off but i get too scared..soo i want to know if this is normal ? im not too confident having sex..because i feel like my partner notices it gets grossed out...if id get surgery where would they cut it off at?cant even tell where it begins...
can someone help please?

I'm having the same problem. Well sort of.
I'm just really surprised I'm not the only one.
For years I noticed a piece of skin hanging by my vagina opening.
I pinch it and I don't feel anything.
The thing is that I'm a virgin so its not a broken hymen. I've never had an accident on a bike or whatever to cause this.
its been hanging there ever since i could remember.
Its really embaressing. I'm too self-concious to have sex (I'm 20.. So you can see why I would be frustrated) or let anyone see, touch or get near down there.
I'm a 20 year old who has never had a guy go down on her(sorry to be so blunt) and its frustrating cause all my friends tell me how its so damn great.
I'm just afraid ill end up a virgin forever =[

Does anyone know how to get rid of it? I too have contemplated cutting it but I'm too scared and it seems like a stupid thing to do.l

Anyone.. Someone.. Give me advice...anything!!!

Hey girls, i'm sorry to hear you guys are going through the exact same things as i did. I just recently got married and after having sex for my first time had that piece of skin hanging out. I thought it was gross and ugly. I knew it was the thing that had been making me have all the trouble getting my tampon out for years. This will creep you guys out, but i stretched it out as far as i could and cut it off with a sharp pair of hair scissors. Now it can't be seen anymore. I did bleed somewhat of a lot for the first night but after that it stopped. The doctors will prolly kill me when i have my checkup lol

Hi I have the same issue, after when I first starting having sex I went for my yearly gyno apt. and about one month prior I noticed a little hangy piece of skin hanging out of my vagina, not alot, but just a piece and it was attached to something, when I went to the appointment, she said it was part of my hymen, well that was when I was 17, I had my son when I was 18 and I had a different problem, a piece of skin grew from one lip to another, it hurt, it was just a little piece of scar tissue that grew together after the baby (I didn't rip, just a few nicks). The gyno cut it off. 8 months ago I had my second child, I am 23 now, and the same problem with my hymen, but now I have two pieces hanging out, thank god no scar tissue, cause that hurt worse, i just went to the dr. for the problem about a week ago and they found more "hanging pieces" on my hymen that are "not normal" that it could have been caused b a strain of HPV, in which I might have had in the past (when I was pregnant with my 1st I had abnormal paps and after the baby I had mild dysplasia, but it cleared without any treatment within a few months) anyway... they told me that after having a baby it is normal to have a few "hangy pieces" just not as bad as mine are, I had to get a second opinion from another obgyn that was in the office and she told me that she will have to laser them off. I asked her how much, all together, do I have in there? She told me about 6 or 7!! I was shocked! I will get them off on the 8th of Sept and let you know how it went. So I do know how it feels to have sex and it hurting from it and the tampons getting "stuck" it really sucks, hopefully when they're gone I will finally know what it feels like not to have any discomfort. To anyone who is reading this who has the same issue, don't feel ashamed to talk to your Dr. or OBGYN, they are there to help you and they will, just keep the mindframe of "they had seen worse" thats what I thought and I am sure that they have. It doesn't hurt to ask, or when you get your pap done, just say hey doc by the way I noticed... and it gives me discomfort, can you take a look and see what you can do for me. Good luck.

ok i had that problem and i went to the doctor and they removed it.
yes it hurt i wont sugarcoat it but in the end it was worth it..cuz it no longer hurt to put a tampon in or to have sex.

i just lost my virginity a few days ago and part of my hymen is still attached at the bottom of the opening. It makes me feel extremely weird down there after having sex and just sitting or something. Any ideas what i could do?

hey guys i had the same problem with this hanging hymen thing, at least i assumed that it was my hymen that was hanging from my vagina, but anyways i was really worried about it and worried what my boyfriend would think about it so i just cut it off actually with a pair of scissors, probably not the brightest thing in the world but hey it worked it barely hurt and while it bled a lot at first for like 5-10 minutes maybe after that there was barely any blood at all and now its perfectly fine, so if you do this just dont get freaked out if there's a lot of bright red blood at first because that's exactly what happened to me too, so i definitely recommend doing this over the toilet or something

Hey guys, I think I have the answer to your questions.
Okey, here is my story.
I always had problems taking off my tampons, until I ended up figuring out that I had a piece of skin from one side to the other, something like this (I).
I lost my virginity more than one year ago, and the day it happened it hurt like hell and I bled so much.
After I went home, I wiped my vagina and I found that I had a piece of skin hanging out. I was bleeding so much that I freaked out and went to the hospital and there they told me not to worry, that it was normal and that it should go away within three months.
Yeah right, it's been one year and the piece of skin is still hanging out.
I haven't been able to have sex with my boyfriend for more than 8 months because it just really hurts and I end up crying. We have tried lubricant and it has helped, but it's still uncomfortable.
So, I went to the gynecologist, he looked at it, and scheduled an operation that only takes 15 minutes and removes the protruding skin. He said he is 90% sure that thats the reason why its hurting, because everything else is just perfect, but he said he cant guarantee that it will stop hurting after the surgery.
Its really a simple problem, that I didnt resolve earlier because I was scared and embarassed of dealing with it, so if you guys want help, go to a doctor, but to a good one...preferably a gynecologist because they specialize on those things, and family doctors dont know sh*t.
Also, don't take it off yourselves because the vagina is very sensitive to infections.
I will let you guys know how my operation goes.

basically, its always been weird for me to get a tampon out, sometimes it hurts HELLA bad... but then we had sex yesterday for the 3rd time and i was drunk so i didnt hurt. but then i go to the bathroom and there is this dangly thing hanging there, it looks lik tissue and its SUPER weird, and i dont want it to be there anymore... wat should i do? should i cut it myself?