So I'm a 22 year old female and I am experiencing one of the worst feelings of my life.
Two weeks ago (may 23) I began having symptoms of a UTI- burning sensation when urinating and feeling like I needed to more frequently. I took an old prescription of amoxacillin that i had because I knew I was not able to see a doctor right away (I know, stupid me). It did indeed cure my UTI but that sunday/monday (may 27/28) I began to worry that now I was getting a yeast infection because my vagina area was itching and when my boyfriend and I (of 7 years strong) had sex, my vulva was swollen and burned and itched that was relieved by a cold wash cloth. Also after sex, I felt as if I had a small tear because when I urinated I had a burning sensation where I normally have skin tears at (near the bottom of my vagina opening). I was not experiencing any discharge so I held off on going to the store to get a yeast infection kit.
Wednesday night (may 30) my vagina area was bothering me pretty bad and so I went to the bathroom with a mirror and began to scope out my vagina- I was running my finger along my vulva trying to find what was causing so much pain, and I found about 5 small flesh colored openings that weren't red or oozing anything but they were very hard to see at first. They weren't grouped together but spread out over my vulva. One was at the bottom outside of my vagina opening, the others were on both sides but in different places of each other on my labia.
By thursday morning (may 31), they had turned into open sores, nothing covering them or in them, no other bumps that I had noticed but they hurt very badly. My vulva was swollen again and I made a doctors appointment thinking the worst possible that i could be Genital Herpes.
When I went to my doctor and explained all this to her, she took a urine sample, swabbed the inside of my vagina and also took a sample of the sores. Her first opinion by looking at it- she said that this isn't what herpes looks like, she went and looked at one of her samples she took under the microscope and came back and said that it didn't not appear to look like herpes either. She sounded very confident with her answers and even told me that I had nothing to worry about. She said that the amoxacillin probably & could have caused this reaction because of the bacteria with the UTI and the amoxacillin could have easily have cause a yeast reaction.
So my doctor prescribed me another antibiotic (Sulfamethoxazule-TMP DS) incase my UTI had not cleared up all the way and a topical cream (Clotrimazole) to apply to the sores. I have finished my anitbiotic and I was putting the Clotrimazole on 3 times a day since thursday and I have since then developed more sores. They aren't getting any better with the cream.
(Since Wed. May 30) Now I have more sores popping upcoming from these small cuts/holes/opening that are practically invisible, the "old one"/ or rather more "first ones" have not healed or scabbed or anything and my vulva is still inflammed- I am ready to just give up and die! Urinating on these bastards take my breath away and make me scream. I have never been the person to cry over pain but I have been in the bed since thursday and crying my eyes out.
On saturday (June 2) I noticed that now my glands in groin are swollen, but I have not had any flu like symptoms but now I am beggining to have minimal milk like discharge with possible little lumps in it?
Today (june 3) I called the oncall doctor from my doctors office and his best advice to me was vasoline.... I have tried putting toliet paper over them to try and cover them while i peed and even tried the on-call doctors advice and coating my entire vagina with a sh*t load of vasaline. The vasaline did prevent the urine from touching it but that burned just as bad and I had to get it all off afterwards. So, I have stopped putting the Clotrimazole and vasoline on and now when I need to pee, I run a bath, sit down in the water, spread my lips and pee. Works wonderfully absolutely pain free but nasty! But at this point- peeing on myself in my own bath water is the least of my worries!!
I am patiently waiting now, it's only 4:40 am on June 4... My doctors office wont open until 8 but Ill be there here in a few hours. I feel like I am about to go crazy knowing that this sh*t is going on with my vagina and there's nothing I can do about it. I need relief now and if I don't get it- I'm just going to admit myself into the hospital and let put me into a coma until my vagina is fixed cause I can't deal with it anymore. I want the results to my Herpes test-to put my mind at rest. I mean I want to trust my doctor that when she looked at me after looking at my vagina and said that the sores that I have dont look anything like herpes and then the smile that she had when she came back from analyzing it under the microscope that I don't have genital herpes is really not herpes. If this is a yeast infection, I really really REALLY need to get the cure for it.
Please, if you have any thoughts or opinions or common stories, post them back!!
I have great news!!! So I have all my results from my doctor and I am NEGATIVE for any STD's including the scariest-Herpes!! My doctor did not have a precise diagnosis of what it was because she said she had only seen one case similar to mine. She believed it to some kind of virus and not a yeast infection.
That monday morning that I was counting down the seconds on (june 4th) I walked in and was balling my eyes out for relief. She prescribed me to Acyclovir: 1- 400mg tablet 3 times a day for 7 days (she said it is used for people who do have genital herpes but if it was a virus it would help). I requested for her to please put me on Fluconazole: 1 time- 150mg tablet (just incase it had anything to do with a yeast infection). She also prescribed me some lidocaine ointment- 5%, which I could apply as needed to numb the sores so I could pee without passing out. I wont lie, the lidocaine burned like hell every time i put it on my sores but after an intense 15 secs. they were completely numb to where I could pee without any pain.
I'm perfectly fine now and I didn't even have to cancel being a bridesmaid for my best friend that was on the 9th. I began getting relief from my sores within the first 2-3 days of being on those medications. The last sores that developed healed first while the ones that had shown first cleared up last. It took a full week (until the 11th i'd say) for all of them to clear up. They didn't scab, they just kind of disappeared.
But yes, I am 100% better and thankful that I didn't die. It was a horrible experiense not knowing if it was herpes and I would have out breaks like that for the rest of my life and how that would affect everyone around me. It made me think a whole whole whole lot about how I don't want to ever experience anything like this again.
I wish you ladies the best of luck--- if you have any questions feel free to ask. I am more that happy to help you through it!
--Kay
But no I didn't not have a specific diagnosis. If you read my post that I just posted below, I have details about how I was treated.
OMG YES!! I was doing that and it was better than sitting straigh up and peeing, I even took paper towels and rolled them up into thick rectangles and placed the on both side of my lips down there and pulled them apart and tried peeing, it worked once and the second time it was a huge failure and I about passed out cause it hurt so bad. And that's when I went to running a bath full of water and peeing in my own bath water.... I know it sounds nasty but it barely hurt at all to pee that way and that's what got me through until I seen my doctor again and got some lidocaine to put on the sores.
I am having similar symptoms and it did give me some relief to read your story and find out you DON'T have herpes- On Thursday (30) I shaved down there and while in the shower noticed my razor cut many cuts -- it was probably rough. On Friday, I noticed quite large red bumps appearing where I thought maybe I had cut myself in the shower -- my first response was to see if I could pluck out an ingrown hair. Unfortunately the sores I picked at enlarged the next day and I got more. I immediately went to the clinic and was given Cephlaxin for a bad pore infection spread through my vagina - he saw a couple sores and immediately said I had a bad staph infection. He was sure it wasn't an STD.
On Monday, I noticed things were worse and really started to look scary. They aren't a cluster like common herpes though, and they arent filled with clear puss. They are just open, swollen lesions pretty much and after I shower they coverr over with a white, p***y layer over the scabs. I went to the doctor today (Tuesday) and he said I should keep on the Cephlaxin and see if there is any improvement... I'm scheduled to go back in tomorrow afternoon to see how things are. I'm terrified I have genital herpes and don't know how to stop stressing out about it - I've was in a 3 year relationship with one partner and was tested to make sure I was clean after a bad yeast infection. I was. Now I'm worried from my new 6 month realtionship I've been given the virus. I'm so upset and made sure before we started sexual intercourse that he was clean and asked about his past sexual encounters. Noone wants genital herpes.
I don't know if this is relavent, but I was on Amoxacillin for a bad cold 2 weeks ago but stopped it after a few days because it made my stomach so upset and I found tylenol cold was doing its job anyway - I wonder if this contributed to failed antibodies..?
Any advice? I got tested today for herpes just incase but have to wait for the results. Do these lesions sound like yours were? Or? I'm hoping I'm lucky and have some sort of infection that is curable and NOT an STD. At this point I'd be happy if they weren't sure what it was, as long is Herpes was ruled out.
I was freaking out as well.
Went to the Docs and he gave me some cream Flagstatin.
what happens is the immune system is low causing a major yeast infection and from what I understood it's trying to release through the walls to get it out.
I am taking the cream and I also found it difficult to pee so I swabbed some peroxide on a Qtip and applied it to the lesions and it worked.
Don't take hot baths yeast loves warmth,eat plenty of Greek yoghurt(every day for the rest of your life)
I'm glad I found this article because this is exactly what I am going through now. I've been worrying as well as my bf if its herpes. I should get my results on Nov 6th just hope its negitive, because both my boyfriend and I have been checked and both clean before we started dating. As for lidocaine the only thing I have that has it in it is the Sally Hassen Aftershave gel. I've been through hell these last two days. I'm on Metro-gel which I am debating on stopping it, Acyclovir, and Keflex.
Ive had an abotion within the las month afterwards i shaved my vaginal area completely bald int the shower. A day after i started getting bumps but i always get hair bumps so i started messing with them. after i got the abortion I bled for 3 staight weeks and had absolutly no sex with my boyfriend of many years. The sores then started to ich because i also had my hair growing back as it always does. Later on the next day my whole vaginal area was sore and it burned to urine but I managed to get around that. i have a tint green discharge and that began after i stopped bleeding from the abortion. I went to the doctor because my BC was giving me problems and i had developed this vaginal pain. she looked at my vagina and said this could possibly be herpes i asked her how would that even be possible when i havent been sexual active for over two months. ive examined what common herpes look like and they look nothing like what i have. ans mine are spreaded throughout my vagina with little hairs directly in the middle of each of them. They completed a test and she gave me numbing cream, and some pills and now im waiting on the results. My boyfriend was recently tested before I even got my abortion and his results returned negative for any STD's idk what this could be but the only thing i could think about is would it be possible i recieved this from the abotion clinic i went to.