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

I thought mine was from a uti when it started, the pain became worse three days after taking antibiotics, I decided to return the the doctor and a vaginal pap was done and I was given medicine for a yeast infection. I was sent home and told to take the rest of my antibiotics (which they had changed at the hospital because the first one wasn't working, causing the yeast infection to become worse) and the meds I was given for the yeast infection. Within two days I had really started to notice there were tiny sores all around my vagina and the pain had become even more intense. I hadn't slept for almost two days straight. I had done everything! Hot baths, ice packs, monistat cream, cool wash clothes. This helped for the moment, long enough to get out and then try to sit down, try to get comfortable. Nothing was helping! I could pee without tears in my eyes and clenching my teat to just get through it, emediatly putting a cool clothe on after. I was at my final point, I couldn't do the pain anymore... I went back to the hospital again. I explained everything again, and final I got the right doctor. She looked at the sores, told me she thinks it is hsv (herpes 2). She took a culture of the sores and prescribed me an anti viral for hsv. I had the script filled and I am on my third day of this wonderful medication. I have bairly any swelling left, some pain, the burning is at a bare minimum (finally), I can walk again, and I can sit again. Just waiting for all test results to come back to know for sure.
I did find out while I was there that the herpes virus can stay dormant for many years before it decides to show its ugly face. I have, in the mean time, done a lot of research about the one thing I never expected the doctor to tell me I may have "herpes". I'm not happy about the fact that this is possibly what I have, but to finally have relief from the pain is a plus.
I hope this helps someone, because the pain I experienced I wouldn't wish on anyone. Oh, if you have little bumps/sores on your vagina, get to your doctor or the ER. Tell them what you think it is and have them test it. While they do that ask for an anti viral medication for it.

I am having the same exact problem and scared to death that I have herpes. The discharge is odorless but I do have two sore like blisters. I got swabbed today and won't know for a couple of days but I'm extremely scared.

I'm having this experience right now! I was crying my eyes out thinking I had herpes, cursing out my boyfriend reading your story gave me so much relief I'm going to the doctor tomorrow praying it's not herpes I'm having all of the same symptoms you had I even peed in the tub like you lol

This is exactly what I am experiencing.!!!! The Shxt is painful. I hate when I have to pee.! I be nearly in tears just to pee.! HEEELLLLPPPPPPP.!!

Do you have email or anything, I'm going through horrible hell right now I have every symptom you mentioned. Couldn't get into see my dr but he called me over the phone gave me an oral pill, 3 tabs that go inside and topical cream. All for a yeast infection, I do suffer from them a lot bc I'm diabetic but this is the absolute worst case I've ever had. I'm freaking myself out by going on the Internet and looking at pictures of both yeast infection and herpes.they both look so similar I'm even more confused.

I recently went to the doctor for the same thing. But she didn't give me anything for the sore accept for medication. I went to the doc on Tuesday and she told me I had a uti and a yeast infection. They tested me for everything. But everything came back negative. I received a call today saying that I only now have a yeast infection and my uti test was negative. How can I get these sores to go away!? They're killing me!

Good news ladies.... Ive been dealing with paper cut like sores for 6 months. It would be okay a few days but them itch and burn horribly other days.

My sores were just above my cliteral hood. It hurt to pee SO BAD. I looked ridiculous sitting to pee cuz id sit and lean forward... Palms on the ground. Ugh. I was dying.

Before the sores showed up my clit area itched pretty bad. I get at least a couple a year... This was different though. Id never only had itching around that area... Had always been vaginal.

Anywho... After the sores showed up my life sucked. My bf talked me into putting antibacterial salve on it... It helped for a short time after i put it on bc it kept the area moist so i was pulling on the sores... But it just kept getting worse.

I resigned myself to the fact i may have herpes. I was devastated and embarrassed. I hadnt hidden this from my bf do the thought that i or we have an std broke my heart.

Literally 2 days ago i randomly came actoss something on external yeast infections.... Every single symptom matched mine. I had a lil hope at that point! I ran out monday night and got the meds. Tuesday i was hating life bc whenever i use that medicine i get a 5 alarm crotch fire for 24 hours. Its miserable. However, like clockwork after 24 hrs im fully healed like it never happened.

And for the good news.... My sores are now scabs.. Just 48 hours later.... No pain... No itch. Im in heaven.

If yall havent tried that otc monistat i suggest you do. I feel better than i have in 6 months. Its amazing. Mad i didnt try this sooner!!

What did you use for the scabs?

I havent used anything on them. Theyre tiny. Im just overjoyed theyre healing!

I wanted to write here to give some faith and positive news for people. I was experiencing similar symptoms and was so frightened. I googled and googled and googled and it was this site that gave me some hope. I hope I can help someone else. I'm a person who takes pretty good care of myself in terms of hygiene and health. I wash myself down there with water after using the toilet and I always pee and shower immediately after sex. I drink mostly only water and have never suffered from any UTI's or anything like that.

Last Sunday June 26th, my boyfriend and I had sex. It started as oral and some fingering. We were about to have sex, when I started feeling extreme discomfort.He held off on sex, not wanting to hurt me. We later had sex and I felt some burning after peeing, but didn't think anything of it. I just thought I was dry. The next day, I was still experiencing burning while peeing and told my boyfriend, but we were still not concerned. Later that day, I started experiencing clear discharge. It didn't have a bad smell, but there was a slight smell. The next morning (Tuesday), I peed and the burning urination was still there, but I had to go to work and just ignored it. The discharge was increasing. I got busy with work and didn't go use the washroom until much later in the day. I had to bite my tongue not to scream and the discharge had soaked my underwear. I came home from work a few hours later and my boyfriend examined me to find a few small bumps with a white head. He went to the the pharmacist who thought it was a yeast infection. He prescribed a vaginal cream and gave some erythromycin, but recommended to revisit him in 3 days if I wasn't having any relief. My biggest complaint was the burning urination - I know my tolerance for pain isn't the greatest but this was out of the world for me.

My luck would have it, that I would start my period the next day (now Wednesday). I put a pad on, but started feeling irritation. I had a red rash down there and there were many bumps all over and inside my vagina. I was now actively avoiding the toilet and it was just becoming all I thought about. I dreaded having to use the washroom. By Thursday, I had just taken to staying in bed all day, unless it was to use the washroom. I wasn't weak, but the experience of peeing would drain me. I had lost all appetite and just ate to take my medication. I was having to pee much more frequently especially for the small amount of fluid I was drinking. My boyfriend went back to the pharmacist and he prescribed methanidazole. I was scared to take it, reading that it can cause yeast infection. By Friday, the pain was even worse. My boyfriend took me to the clinic. I should mention that the two of us were virgins and each other's first. I know we often can't trust someone when they say that, but I truly believe him in that, especially with my illness, for him to tell the truth. I told the doctor everything and she examined me. She took no longer than 5 seconds to say that it was herpes. I was in disbelief. I asked if her it could be anything else and she said that in all her experience, this looked like herpes. She sent me for bloodwork and prescribed acyclovir. I asked her about the bumps and she said they would heal but the bumps would be there forever as this had progressed a lot. My major concern was the burning urination and she advised me to take the metronidazole. I went immediately to get my blood taken and was told I would have to wait a week.

I was in such disbelief about all of this. My boyfriend has been such a blessing through all of this. It freaked him out that this could be herpes, but he was such a source of physical and mental strength. He was having to help me in the washroom. I would squeeze his leg while peeing. I peed the bed twice, not getting up fast enough combined with the fear of peeing. Once, he even lifted me to the washroom but I was too scared for the pain, that I peed on the bathroom floor. One thing that I can advise for the painful burning pee is to use warm water. My boyfriend would pour warm water the second I started peeing. I would lean forward, trying to stop the urine from touching any of the bumps. He would actually boil hot water and mix it with cold water. We continued to pour water for a few minutes after I finished urinating. I would honestly shake and feel so weak after peeing, but this provided great relief. My boyfriend actually rejected using the acyclovir. He wanted to hold off and see if the metronidazole would work on its own, and this was actually such a smart decision on his part.

Fast forward to Tuesday July 5, I started using the shower to pee. I found standing under the warm water and my boyfriend would pour water from the front helped. My boyfriend also took a clean cloth and soaked it in hot water. I was pretty sensitive and screamed and cried, but he was just trying to clean everything. That helped the bumps and would provide eventual relief. I'm sure you can sense how great of a guy he is - nothing ever grossed him out.

Wednesday - the sores were all clearing up but there were a few closer to my butt.

Thursday - the pain of urination had greatly reduced. I could pee in the shower by myself and it was taking me less than a minute to recover from the burn.

Friday - the pain had reduced even more. The pain at its highest was like a 9 (I'm a baby for pain, so maybe that's exaggerated but I had certainly never felt pain like this) I would say this pain was maybe a 1 at most.

Saturday - my test results arrived - 0.0 for both HSV 1 and HSV 2
There is maybe 0.5 worth of burn, if that. I couldn't go to see the doctor but I visited the pharmacist. He advised me to finish the antibiotics (metronidazole) and I even showed him the results. We discussed it at length and he agreed with me on what I believed happened. Not taking the acyclovir provided a great amount of relief for me, mentally. I was worried about incorrect test results, but he reminded me that I would not have healed without antiviral drugs, if it had been herpes. He believes that its possibly an involvement with trichomoniasis and rough sex might have worsened it. My boyfriend had been taking pictures to show me how it was getting better, so we had pictures from the start to almost the finish of my sickness to see the progression. The pharmacist could see how the pad had irritated me, which the doctor refused to even consider.

My boyfriend really encouraged me to write my experience here, because I googled and read through this site so much, trying to find some shred of hope. I hope that I can help one person at least. I would never wish that pain on anyone else. I lost quite a bit of weight from not eating and it really took a toll on my body.

Please don't lose hope. I would say use warm water for comfort of peeing and make sure to take the medication.

I'm going through what this sounds like right now. The only thing I can think of that was happening in the beginning was that last Saturday (June 2nd) I took a bath and I shaved and while I was shaving I thought I cut myself, the next day when I woke up to pee it burn really bad and I still thought I just cut the inside on my vagina. My gf looked at it said there was a red sore spot but it wasn't a cut and she reminded me I took some infection pills for a cold the week before and the same thing happen to her once when she also took the same pills. We just brushed it off and put some numbing cream from over the counter on it and went on out to a cookout and all day when the numbing cream wore off, my privates were itching me to death and the moment we got home I jumped into the tub and put more cream on it which gave me relief for the night.

I did this Monday (July 4) and Tuesday (5th) which on Tuesday I also got my period on top of this itching. me and my gf were into it over those two days I didn't ask her to look at me and I was too stress about what was going on with us I barley even noticed anything down there was worsening.

by Wednesday night (July 6) we were made up and while we were cooking dinner I ran to the bathroom too pee and when I did the pain was so unbearable I couldn't help but to scream and she came running in there and looked at my vagina while I was still sitting on the toilet and said it was really swollen. She still kept telling me it was the infection pills and when I finally got over the pain of just peeing I took a picture with my phone and saw white blister sore looking thing in the middle of my vagina and when I went to show her the picture she immediately freaked out and examined me up closer and said that was not what she had and it looked exactly like herpes and we both knew neither of us has herpes.

I'm 23 and been with only one other guy before her and we we're both virgins. She is 20 years older than me and had more partners but by the time me and her started dating she had a Pap smear because she has a lot of medical things wrong with her and was tested for everything in the world so I knew she was clean and were both pretty certain neither of us cheated since then because we are always together 24/7. We work together, go out together, shop together,visit friends or family together we're practically never ever apart and people don't believe us when we say there isn't a second gone by since where we haven't been by each other sides, but there really isn't, so we were both knew for sure we didn't get this from anyone else.

By Thursday (July 7) the sores are getting worse and more sores just keep popping up we tried all the home remedies and over the counter meds and since we just assumed its a bad yeast infection. We poured peroxide over my vagina to clean out the infection. I've taken yeast infection meds by mouth and the ones you shoot in you, we tried numbing it but the numbing cream only works up until I need to pee and every time I pee I need to jump into the tub. I was in so much pain by this point and so uncomfortable I didn't know what to do. I was terrified to go to the dr for any bad news.I was hoping all the meds and things we done would work, I convince myself it would be gone or at least better by the next day. But it wasn't it as in fact much, much worse and more sores came up.

So by this day, yesterday (july 8) I was in such horrific pain it was already too late to go the woman's clinics or my dr cause we slept too late.. so we went over to the hospital and the dr took one look at me without doing any swabs or anything and then drew blood and took a pee sample she said it looks a lot warts and she also was thinking its viral but basically told me I have genital warts. She gave me a shot of antibiotics and send me home with meds and cream which I couldn't get until earlier this morning. She told me to get into the doctor Monday for a Pap smear. I let her know her my gf has been tested clean and I never had a Pap smear before and I haven't slept with anyone except her and my ex boyfriend who was also a virgin and the last time I was with him was four years ago. She said I could've still carried it all this time and it's now just popping up. this was new information to me, I had no idea you can carry something without it popping up years down the road. this was the reason I was thinking I've been clean all this time. The only logical explanation was that my ex cheated on me while he was away in the army and I just didn't think anything of it since he didn't seem like the type to be a cheater and he was heartbroken when I broke up with him, I just didn't picture him ever cheating.I just can't come up with any other explanation but if I have this then there's nothing I can do it about it. I just wish I caught it first before I passed it on to my gf. I am hoping the Er dr just made an assumption and when I go to the clinic Monday it's something else because I hate to put my gf through this some day. She's already unhealthy so adding this on to her would be the worse part for me. It's no fun and probably the worst thing and worst pain I ever been through. It disgust me and I never thought it would ever happen to me so I'm really hoping it's something else that isn't something I can pass on. She keeps telling me it's not my fault and if it's something like that we can get through it together but I'm still hoping for better news.

Right now I'm waiting patiently till Monday so I can get a second opinion and I'm trying not to worry but it's hard not to. I'm taking all the meds on time and using the cream they prescribed me hoping it goes away a little at a time. I'm trying to keep my privates clean as much as possible, I must've sat in the tub 4 times today alone just to get some relief. I poured peroxide on these sores every time I bath to keep the infection from getting worse. I just try avoiding peeing as much as I can because the pain is too much to handle.

wow. Thank you for sharing. It was CRAZY reading your post because it was like I could have wrote it myself!!! Moment by moment seriously! I just saw the doc for the pain and sores. She said I look ok down there though and ran tests...she thought I have BV but I have a yeast infection. I still took all the STD tests that I will be STRESSINGLY waiting for!... just like you. I hope my ending is the same as yours! But your story really eased me thank you!

Thank you so much for writing this! I've been searching the Internet the past 3 days trying to find something or someone that describes my symptoms perfectly, and your message was it! This is seriously the worst vaginal pain ever. Not sure if I can say the worst pain of my life because I've torn my knee twice, but it is probably 3rd and DEFINITELY 1st for most uncomfortable and most inconvenient! I have to pee the same way

Did you find anything to relieve it I have to wait the weekend for the doctor

OMG I'm so glad I found this discussion. I'm 41 and recently tested negative for all studs. I have a new partner of 6 months and am worried of potentially having to explain this. I'm trying not to freak out waiting for the results to see if this is herpes. In my heart of hearts I don't believe this is herpes. I felt judged by the doctor and she didn't even give me an optimistic outlook to say it could be another type infection. So many things have the same symptoms. Anyway thank you young lady for starting this discussion. I'm glad you're better. And thanks to everyone for being so open and sharing your experiences. This took some anxiety away and gave me a better outlook and perspective. I wish everyone well. Thanks again!!