My vaginal area is severly swollen, hurting, inflames, itchy

same thing but Im worried because i got it after masterbation and like a week later it got swollen and itchy........what's wrong????

so i went to my Dr today and i may it may be from using a new brand of tampons.
but it could a been chlamydia yeast infection or herps.
so dont be shy to go to a dr, even though my dr said he never seen anything like it.
its huge and crazy
-goodluck

Hi ladies out there with this nasty problem. I finally managed to get rid of mine and I am kind of feeling obligated to help other girls out there. I have had a burning, itching, sore, swollen and red vagina for about three weeks and last week I finally came out of denial that it would go away by itself. Unfortunately I am not a shiny example here - I was too embarrassed to see a doctor or pharmacist about it. So instead I spent the whole Sunday googling to find a home remedy for it. So I started my treatment last Sunday night and today, on wednesday morning all my (visible) symptoms are gone ! :-) However I am going to continue with my treatment till the end of the week just in case.
So here is what I did:
All my symptoms pointed to a yeast infection and apparently garlic is the biggest enemy of yeast. I would put a clove of garlic into my vagina for the day while i was at work. Then I would put a tampon in dipped in yogurt for an hour or two after work. Make sure the yogurt is non flavored and has NO SUGAR as yeast feeds on sugar (you wanna kill this demon not feed it!). I also made sure that the live cultures of bacteria in yogurt included lactobacillous (or. L. acidophilus) in it as these are the most important for your vagina. I bought VagiCare from an online pharmacy which is supposed to restore the right Ph balance in your vagina and I would put the pill inside overnight together with another clove of garlic. Another thing I got from the online pharmacy is Vagisil cream which was a pretty instant (temporary) relief from pain.
Apart from all that I am dosing on supplements:
GastroHealth from Naturophatica which is full of the good bacteria your body needs right now, so is Acidophilus Bifidus from Blackmores, which I have also been taking. Both are capsules with powder inside which i would also spread around the outsides of my vagina (any way to get that good bacteria in there).
Garlic pills from Micro Genics - or you can just eat raw garlic - which i refused to do ewww.
I have also been eating a tub of yogurt a day (with lactobacillous).
I am not encouraging pill overdose but I did double the dose just for the first couple of days to get a quicker kick start.
I hope this helps other girls out there!

I have every single symptom you have. I decided to take make an apple cider vinigar douche... highley concentrated. It burned like a MoFo... like really really bad... so your goin to want to jump in the shower to ease the discomfort... but it worked. make sure to clean the out side with apple vinigar so you dont get infected again by pre-exsisteing infection. GOOD LUCK.

I think the most common problem is that we all took or are taking antibiotics and it took all our bacteria out. SO doctor to treat and next time taking antibiotics eat lots of yogurt to but the friendly bacteria back in your body to keep the yeast and bacteria in order

I have a swollen inside of my vagina. Its is really sore and swollen, if i touch it, it feels like a blister. I dont know what to do. I cant have sex with my husband, i ddont want him to find out, what do i do? what is this? :'(

I went to urgent care about 3 weeks ago because i had a strange discharge/odor going on down there. I got checked out and was told i had bacterial vaginosis (sp?) which i had figured because like we all do i googled the c**p out of my symptoms. I got some antibiotics to take for 2 weeks and i looked up on the side effects of the medicine and it said that it could cause thrush(yeast infection). Which i don't really understand...cure one thing and you get a similar thing back?!? Then i see a LOT of people were writing how this medicine caused this and i figured okay well that won't happen to me. I was fine for a few days after my treatment was over, got my period...then...started feeling discomfort...a bit itchy down there. I thought hey maybe it's just irritated from tampon(although why would it be..sigh...the things we tell ourselves). Later that day itching like crazy and super swollen. I'm guessing yeast infection although can't tell due to have period, no discharge yet. Either going back to urgent care for another diagnosis/meds or trying the over the counter stuff if i'm sure. I don't want to take yeast infection stuff that if it's BV again...and i'm not going to shove a clove of garlic up my vagina or shoot some yogurt up there either...not sure why someone would do that...Best bet is doctor!!

I had the exact same symptoms as you.  After reading this post I figured it most of been a yeast infection with what most people were saying.  I ended up going to the doctor because I wanted an oral pill to take.  They diagnosed it as genital herpes.  Complete shock.  Go to the doctor to be sure.

ok so i think i have a yeast infection but not sure, i dont wanna go and buy one of those "insert this, look at the color, and find out!" used one said i didnt have it, i did. i partial to sitting in salt either. whole vag icthes like hell, inner lips swollen and just generally mad and red, wearing anything hurrttss. help?

I have some of the same symptoms.  Swollen lips, very itchy even down on my inner thighs.  Taking a vinegar bath helps some.  I think it is probably a

yeast infection so I called the doctor and got a pill for that.  This is the second time I have had this in the last month.  Very uncomfortable.....  Not sure what

causes this.  I read where your PH balance is off.  I think eating yogart helps.

I have kind of the same thing but not flacky stuff. It happened like right after I had sex and the first 2 days a very little amount of kind of chuncky discharge but that stopped. Now it's just swollen, red, itchy, and Kind of sore. I'm really scared and I don't wanna have to go to a doctor cause my parents don't really know I'm sexually active. My moms gotten me some kind of cream for a yeast infection to put on the outside but that didn't work. Please help me:(

cream doesn't work for me either but the pharmacy should sell a pessary which i find is alot more effective 

Whoever said to sit in salt water is a GENIUS. I've had all these same symptoms for days now and its gotten so bad that i couldn't even sleep. 6 am now and just finished my salt water bath. i kept pouring salt on my vagina repeatedly. By the time i got out of the bath it burned like a B***h but she was right... it shrank.. (not back to normal cause it was HUGE) but still worked VERY well.. now I'm just waiting for walmart to open so i can grab some vagisil and monestat and tubs of yogurt. i really wish i didn't ignore this and hoped for it to go away... it could have been over before my vag got so big and painful

Ok, so I had the same thing when I was 15. I had my boyfriend finger me really roughly. It did hurt but I didn't say a thing. 5 minutes after we were done, it felt weird to walk, like I had a wedgie. When my Mom picked me up from his house, it felt worse in the car. I got home and walked funny to the bathroom. Pulled my pants down and saw in the mirror my vagina "lips" were very swollen. I freaked out. I was afraid I got a STD or something. I didn't tell my Mom. Or Dad. Just my boyfriend and my closest friend. That's all. My boyfriend says he has never had that happen to his ex-gfs and never heard of such thing happening to me. That day my underwear had kinda bloody discharge but a lot of it. So it was abnormal, and it's smell.

I was very happy I was online schooled so I could stay home and not move much. The second day it was worse, and it was redder because I wore my underwear and it was tight, so it was more irritated. So I took off my underwear and wore baggy sweatpants or basketball shorts. It burns to pee yes, but you need to go anyways. This might sound silly, but I peed slow was I can and when I was done, I lighty patted the pee off. I don't want to make anything worse, right? It did hurt to walk normally so I walked like somesort of monkey/cowboy walk. And sat with my legs apart. But no one noticed. Thankfully.

Third day I noticed it did get smaller but it was still painful to pee and sit normally. But since there was the gross crusty discharge, I wiped it off with a cwarm or cold water cloth. IT made me able to walk better and it felt better to sit. But still burns to pee. Now don't do anything stupid and wear underwear unless, the underwear is kinda baggy and cotton, that would work better.

Fourth day I woke up and noticed it as much smaller, still discharge and funny to walk and weird to sit but it as much better. I felt happier, knowing i'm fine. But I needed to take a bath because it was 4 days since no shower. I took a bath but with warm water and shaved only with water. I took a shower but avoided to use soap, and I put shampoo on carfully and washed it off carefully. You son't want to have soap touching your vagina at this stage. The water tickled a little bit and burned just barley, but it felt better to feel clean.

Fifth day was same as fourth but my vagina lips were smaller and no bath. Sixth day same as fourth and fifth but smaller again. Exactly seven days after incodent, my vagina lips were back to normal. But they had crusty discharge and it was very itchy. I took a bath and used my finger to clean my vagina only with water and stayed in the bath for like an hour, releved. STILL avoided soap just to be safe.

But see? I used nothing to help and all it took was a week to heal. I never told my Mom because she probably would've killed me lol, but my friend was very supportive and my boyfriend, was by myside the whole time. It was nice having confort with this. Now I learned, I'm not going to do anything sexual and toook it to as far as kissing. I'm 19 and o'm safeer with fingering and sex and don't want to take it rough until my body can maintain it. I ain't an expert of what happened to my vagina other than some tissue was irritated and some bacteria did probably cause it to inflame, but I kept it clean as I could.

Hopefully this cooled you down a bit if same thing happened to you. Just don't do anything stupid now, or if you do, go slower with those fingers or penis haha. Be safe now.;-)

I have had the same symptoms on and off for almost 3 years. It was first treated as a yeast infection then allergies to my bath/shower wash then allergies to my laundry detergent, then back to yeast infection... Until I was diagnosed with cervical cancer!!! Please don't assume just get it looked after.