Yeast infection that causes open sores but sounds alot like herpes.....

I am experiencing the EXACT same situation down to the using antibiotics until I could see a Dr. I'm going to the Dr this morning, and hope to find its not genital herpes. Thank you so much for posting this and being so detailed, this has given me a sense of hope and a bit of mental stress relief. Again, can't thank you enough this was so incredibly helpful!

Hi there, is there any way you can post what the sores looked like? I have similar and I feel they are spreading but I don't have the blisters they talk about or puss... I'm scared to go to a doctor...

Hello.. are you still available to answer questions?

Girls, I had the same thing and here it was an allergic reaction! Once to the condoms my husband was using and again bc of allergy to antibiotics. I used diaper cream (I know lol) and ice down there for a week til the cuts were healed & no more itching. Good luck!

I'm actually suffering the same symptoms now and was scared of herpes as well. I'm grateful I read the this. I'm on my second Diflucan pill and will take my 3rd on Sunday as its so bad.

I had a similar horrible experience the worst pain of my life. Treat it with lidocaine cream uti stuff like cranberry tablets or gummy bears and monistat. It is awful isn't it!?

I am going through the same thing. Doctor said its yeast infection and i am taking the same antibiotic. Waiting on my herpes test report and horrified. I avoid peeing most of thr time and i cry lying awake at nights. If you found a cure please tell me. Or i will just want to kill myself if i have to live with this. Worst thing that can happen to anyone

Hey girls, I've unfortunately been going through the same thing too. It started about 3 months ago with an urinal infection.. I went to the doctor and got antibiotics. The urinal infection went away and after a few days when I had sex with my boyfriend again for the first time I felt a bit of discomfort down there. I started to get a bit of brown discharge (ended up being because of blood from a sore) and decided to go back to the doctor again. She thought it might be a yeast infection because of the antibiotics and prescribed me Diflucan. Few days after the Diflucan I started noticing really bad pains when peeing and wiping and I decided to take a mirror and check it out.. to my surprise I saw like 2 sores on my vagina which looked really bad and with puss coming out of it, I literally panicked and went to see a gyno the next day. They checked it out and couldn't really tell me what it was and told me to wait and see if it got better in the next days. In the next days I checked it out everyday and noticed a 3rd and 4th sore coming, so I went back to the gyno. The pain when peeing was also almost unbearable, literally the worst thing I ever had in my life!! This time at the gyno they thought it might be herpes but weren't sure because it did not completely look like it.. they prescribed me Aciclovir and Lidocaine spray to numb it and a few days after taking it I did feel relieve and after a week or so everything was back to normal. It stayed normal for a few weeks, but then I suddenly got what I felt was like an urinal infection again.. went back to the doctor and they tested my urine and yes, urinal infection again.. they prescribed me Fosfomicyne for 1 day. It seemed to be gone for like 3/4 days and then the urinal infection came back, so I had to go to the doctor again and they prescribed me a stronger antibiotic. While taking the stronger one I noticed a same kind of sore appearing on my vagina and was so scared I was gonna be in the same pain again.. luckily this one disappeared quite soon when treating it with zinc-ointment. Also got one between my vagina and anus, it's like a little spot where the skin is just gone.. that one I still have right in this moment, but I feel like it's getting better everyday treating it with the ointment. Just to be sure I went to the gyno again a few days ago to let it get checked out. I told how the other gyno last time thought it might be herpes, but she said no this looks nothing like it. I told her I already thought it was weird to be herpes, because in all this time my boyfriend literally had nothing wrong with him and we both got tested few months ago and were clean. She didn't see anything else that was off and again thought it was an infection and prescribed me Fluomizin for 6 days. I'm still taking the Fluomizin right now and have to do some testing of my urine and vaginal discharge after, also gonna get tested for all STD's again to be sure.. after the testing I have to go back to the doctor again with the results and discuss further details. It's so shitty to not know what's going on and I just hope I won't be in the same circle again and get an urinal infection again in a few weeks.. Will give an update when I get results! Hang in there girls, it's at least good to know we're not alone in this.

hi! i had the same symptoms last october and had it again on december but my doctor said its not herpes. did yours recur?? coz mine did.

I'm going through the same exact thing. A few weeks ago my doctor told me It looked like I was developing a yeast infection, I didn't think much of it because I was focused on something else going on. About a week ago my vagina started to hurt and itch, I still didn't think much of it. It started to burn so much when I peed, so I went to the doctor. I was given antibiotics for a UTI. I swear.... I almost passed out going to the bathroom. The pain is so excruciating... there's ulcers and sores all over my vulva and they are open and producing a brownish/yellow discharge. I'll have to try the bathtub peeing... my UTI is going away now but I had them both at the same time. it is hell

COCONUT OIL IS A GOD SEND! I've been going through the same thing - after a few days of pure panic I'm now certain it's a yeast infection. I was on antibiotics and got a yeast infection about 2 weeks ago, and after I used canesten it went within a day. I then made the mistake of having sex with my boyfriend, which flared it up. The cream that comes with canesten is relieving at first but it irritates my skin SO much that it eventually makes it worse. Anyway the yeast infection came back with such a vengeance and it is AGONY. Bumps that look like herpes and fissures everywhere. Peeing is terrifying. Anyway I'm mainly here to offer some relief: COCONUT OIL! litterally a god send. For one it's antifungal so it actually treats the infection, but it's soooooooo soothing. It makes life with this almost bearable and i put tons on before bed and I wake up noticeably so much better. Still horrific, so damaging to my self esteem and I think my boyfriend is beside himself seeing how depressed this has made me... this more than anything has shown me how important sexual health is to your mental health.

I think I may be in the same boat as you... Could you describe what your sores looked like? My doctor tested me today for STDs more specifically herpes... I had another doctor tell me I had a yeast infection... I am taking the same pills as you were taking at the time. Really hope what I have turns out not to be HERPES!!!!

OMG your story is a big deal of hope for me. I can relate so much and everyone is already telling me it's an std down There and giving me there judgment and the doctor I went to his reaction wasn't nice he didn't give me no hope he rushed me out...I would go somewhere better but I don't have insurance rn. I recently quit my job to be a stay at home mom and lab work is expensive... they took some tests but tge ones he wanted me to have done we cant afford....but ughhh Iv been with one partner for ever it seems I am 98.8% sure he won't cheat on me but I used to get uti all the time and right after sex it would burn and I'd have a small paper cut like slice right where I pee but I usually would shower right after. And next day it was gone but we have been trying to have a baby for the past 2 months only and I would lay down for like 30-45 mins and last time we tried I got a yeast infection from his sperm. And again it went away. But the other day we had sex and he told me his head was sensitive and I was sensitive so I thought us trying so much was just to much... or.... I gave him my yeast infection. So we stopped trying and every since that day my girl downstairs wasn't the same. I have more then a slice exactly how u described yours and I asked him how he feels he's fine everything looks good on him. But me no I can't pee I can't clean myself without screaming I'm so scared and depressed I have something serious and forever....Id like to believe i know my self and I trust my partner....waiting for these test suck. I feel so alone I'm starting to 2nd guess myself....all I wanted was to have a baby with the man I love and I wish I didn't take prenatal's and ovulation pills I feel like it messed up my levels down there...I wish I had someone here who will give me a 2nd opinion....your story helps me because it's what I believe it is possible for me to have all this from a yeast infection. Instead of just killing my 24 year old dreams with I have genital herpes....
-k

Can you please please contact me, my girlfreind is having some bad days she been going tru the samd stuff we really need help please she tested negative for herbes and UTI

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This is crazy the same thing happened to me! I went on amoxicillin right when I get getting a yeast infection (which coincidentally I had gotten from having sex with a new partner) and then I developed all these awful sores. The doctor told me it looked nothing like herpes and gave me medicine for a yeast infection. I had to go a few days later for another opinion and the second doctor gave me acyclovir. It was the most excruciating thing letting those sores heal, I could barely walk or sleep let alone pee. Three months later I got my blood test and everything came back negative. Started another outbreak last week and the third doctor (I moved) doesn't think it's herpes. WTF is happening to me then??