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

Hi there, I am going through the same thing as you. Did you also have unprotected sex?

Still waiting. I called the clinic and they said I should be receiving them one monday. Will come back to update

Hey Kay!
I am going through the same thing right now and I am so relieved to see your post. Have you experienced this ever again? I hope this is going to be the last time I ever have to go through something like this! I am miserable! I got the same medicine you were prescribed at the doctor and it isn't likely that it is herpes from her looking under the microscope, although the blood tests haven't came back yet.
Thanks for your post and let me know if you ever had this happen again!
-Stephanie

Have you gotten that virus again since this last post?

Hello Ladies! I am so glad this post exists. I have been feeling a lot of these same symptoms for the past few days. I had unprotected sex with someone who gets tested frequently and who I have been seeing for about four years, so I trust him not to have given me anything.

I have been having recurring yeast infections for the past couple of years. I get them maybe every 2-3 months, and usually Monistat clears them right up. I felt one coming on about 2 weeks ago, had the itching and everything, but I guess I let it stay instead of treating it because sometimes if I just put the minozacole cream it goes away.  I had sex with my partner 2 nights in a row last week. The second night it hurt a lot near the opening of the hole of my vaginal canal. I was sore and in a lot of pain for the next couple of days but didn't notice anything besides discharge. Fast forward 5 days, and I have noticed some bumps near my vagina and anus. At first they looked like white head pimples, but now they look more or less like very tiny canker sores. I also have a lot of white discharge (which I always have with yeast infections). I've been freaking out for the past few days that I have herpes. Do you think this could be herpes, or a really bad yeast infection that has been left untreated? 

Oh my gosh. I'm so thankful I found this page. I'm and 22 year old female, and I've spent the past 6 days with my anxiety out the roof and have just recently began to calm down.
This past weekend, I had sex with a new partner around 6 am on saturday. We used a condom, but the condom broke near the very end of sex. Worried that I could get pregnant, we went and bought plan B later that day. I was hesitant to take plan B, because the last time I took it, which was just once, I got a yeast infection and HORRIBLE mouth ulcers.
I got VERY little sleep this past weekend... I'm pretty sure just like 2 hours of sleep on friday night. And then I was outside in the heat all day saturday around tons of people which didn't help things. So obviously my immune system was probably very weak.
I don't remember if it was sunday during the day or sunday night that I first noticed this raw feeling near the bottom of my vagina, but it was normal for me to feel that way the day after sex some times, so I didn't think much of it. I did notice that I was getting a boil (i'm very prone to boils lately) EXTREMELY close to the labia of my vagina. Like within probably a centimeter of my labia lips.
So i was using warm compresses on that because it was beginning to bother me since my panties would hit it a lot. I had recently developed a lowgrade fever and was extremely tired, but my mom had the same symptoms so I thought nothing about it.
It wasn't until wednesday morning that I began having watery/whitish discharge just pouring out of my vagina. I instantly thought that I was getting a yeast infection because discharge and itchiness is usually my worst symptom when it comes to those. I went to put a tampon in to stop the flow of discharge, and when I tried, i noticed my labia was swollen. I thought 'WTF?"
I went and got a hand mirror and looked and was horrified. I saw three TINY ulcer-like places on my labia... just on the right side of my labia. I instantly thought of my recent sexual experience and thought i could have herpes. I was tormented alllllll day long, but what I had didn't look like the pictures of herpes you see on google. They looked JUST like canker sores that you get in your mouth... and believe me, I know what those look like. I called my local health department and set up a consultation for thursday afternoon (I have no insurance right now).
The minute the nurse practitioner saw them "Oh, that's herpes." Just after a 10 second glance.
I was devastated. I told her about the boils that had kept coming up around my buttocks and thighs, thinking I might have a staff infection, and the ULCERS that had started coming up at the same time in my mouth, and she just looked at me funny. She even tried to say that the boils I kept having might have been herpes outbreaks........
She took no tests, not even a swab. The HD where I live covers every STD test except HPV and herpes. She told me it was unlikely I contracted this so quickly from my most recent partner, and it might be that I have already had it... I haven't had sex in months in exception of this weekend.
So, i'm just very confused and still worried. but reading this forum/page has helped me a lot. I plan on getting a blood test eventually but the NP said to wait a few weeks. Through my research I've discovered 3 things.
1- while herpes IS most commonly the culprit behind genital ulcers, there ARE other factors/viruses/conditions that can cause genital ulcers.
2- other viruses like the virus that causes MONO, the ebstein-barr virus (which causes fever, fatigue, swollen glands, sore throat) CAN cause genital ulcers. It's pretty rare but it happens. It lays dormant in your system as well and can come out in periods of stress, etc. I already have the EB virus in my system.
3- there is a disease called Behcet's Syndrome that I'm really wondering if I might have. It's main symptoms begin to show up in people in their late teens-20s, and they include: reoccurring mouth ulcers (many at a time at LEAST 3 times a year.. I have some almost every month), genital ulcers, and varying skin lesions: boils, weird acne spots, etc. I've had weird skin bumps/conditions all my life but just recently started getting painful boils the past few years. Other symptoms are eye inflammation and joint pain. I have neither of those other than my eyes being red a lot, but I read you can start experiencing those symptoms later on in life. Behcet's for the most part isn't life-threatening but can be if some conditions go untreated/unseen about.
So it's not always herpes as some health professionals love to diagnose. Sorryyy, I know this has been a novel, but I just thought i would share some stuff I found. who knows, i MIGHT have unfortunately contracted herpes, but that's not always the case. I just find it soooo strange that I broke out in these genital ulcers and around the same time, I broke out in mouth ulcers..

Hey again ladies! I got a call from the doctors office (a call is not good) he said that my swab came back position for Hv2. I took the valtrex and it cleared up my sores within 3-5 days. I'm still skeptical since I still feel like it was a bad yeast infection, and well, no one really wants HV, so I will be getting tested again, in a few weeks.
I haven't told my partner yet. I'm so scared! But I figured maybe I could've gotten it from him, so I'm trying not to freak out. We haven't had sex since the 10th. But before that, we were having a lot.
I had told him I got a cut when we were having sex, probably because we were too rough and I was not wet enough. I didn't tell him I had a OB though. I told him I wanted to hold off from sex until I felt 100%, and he's been a sweetheart about it and said it was his fault for hurting me.
I've been thinking about how I will have the talk w him. I'm so hooked on him and him on me, so I'm hoping it works out.
Im going to start off by asking when was the last time he was checked(we've been together for about 3 months) prior to this I had a 2 yr bf..
and continue with telling him I got checked for stds when I consulted my doc about my cut, just to be safe.
Let him know that I went for a follow up and the doc said I was exposed to the virus, and we don't know if it was at the time of that cut or if it was dormant in my body.
Im going to explain all the risks of having sex with me, let him know I'm already taking meds to reduce transmission, and encourage him to get tested. How common the virus is and how it can be seen as a "cold sore virus" and how 80% of people who have this, don't know they have it or never get symptoms.
Honestly idk if i contracted this by him or a previous partner, I've always been careful but I guess you can't be careful enough

Help me I am having the same issue:( it hurts so bad I literally sit and scream! I'm in so much pain:( I barely can breath,. My head is bounding! My birdie(vagina) seriously kills me so bad! I'm on two medicines, the one for yeast and some for uti and one for my mouth, that I swish around! Idk what to do these little redish bumps on my private hurt so so bad I could seriously scream, Vaseline doesn't take I

I’m so terrified I don’t even wanna get out of bed... like 13 days ago I had sex with my bf I realized after that I had a small cut because it bled after sex. The following weekend I thought it healed and had sex again. So this week I started to itch like I had a yeast infection went to the doctors this wenseday I told them about the cut and how it was still there she swabbed it for herpes just Incase. I also had 3 small bumps not clustered together that day on my vaginal area. I get my results some where between sat-Monday.. but I am terrified ... she gave me a medicine for yeast but idk why I have bumps on my vaginal area I kinda feel like more came today...

Just a quick update ladies: This is my 4th day after noticing the sores. I used Monistat 3 Day cream for 3 of the days. For 2 days I've been putting water in a spray bottle and putting some drops of iodine, and just spraying it onto my sores and patting the area down. I do that twice a day, and I also put medicated baby powder to dry out the sores. It's working!!! It's only the night of day 4, and although it still burns when I pee, I have no other pain throughout the day, and the sores stopped being yellow and are now turning pink in the span of 2 days. I barely notice the sores anymore they're healing very fast!!!

Ok so the last time I had sex with my boyfriend was the first of october & I would say 3 days or so later I was in the shower & while washing my vagina I felt a little sting where the hole is the little skin under the hole & I though it was was from scrubbing to hard or shaving because I did shave some days before & thought it was jus now stinging , then the next day I was in the shower again and I started washing my vagina and I got this horrible stinging pain & it hurt to even touch and feel it so I grab a mirror & its a white like so bump and its red around the bump & I look at my vagina hole and it has a very very very light grenish color inside and when i pee its hurts and smells like vomit alittle to me, I have not yet been to a doctor but I have put ointment cream on my bumps to ease the pain and it has worked but it is still there and it still smells amd hurts when I pee. I dont know if it it herpes or A UTI infection or a yeast infection

Exactly the same thing happening to me. Doc cant give any diagnosis. I have given up. I really want few days in coma untill healed. Its very painful. Please help.

Are you still alive.?????? Everything being described here screams CANDIDA = yeast. That's why EVERYONE is getting the symptoms after receiving (or getting worse WHILE receiving) ANTIBIOTICS.

Western medicine is a complete joke. I'm a nurse who suffers from.this- same symptoms. I also have severe "autoimmune issues" and leaky gut- ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE RELATED!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Do research!! Avoid antibiotics at all costs unless life of death necessity.

Feel free to contact me for more info.

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Everything being described here by everyone screams CANDIDA = yeast. That's why EVERYONE is getting the symptoms after receiving (or getting worse WHILE receiving) ANTIBIOTICS.

Western medicine is a complete joke!! I'm a nurse who suffers from this- same symptoms. I also have severe "autoimmune issues" and leaky gut- ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE RELATED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do research!! Avoid antibiotics at all costs unless life of death necessity. You may actually be mistaking yeast inflammation and irritation in your urethra as a UTI. If it is a UTI there are MANY NATURAL CURES- mannitol powder, cranberry juice (but no added sugar as it feeds yeast), colloidal silver (certified) take orally, herbs to beef up your immune system, etc.

Remember ALWAYS URINATE AFTER SEX- esp. Long sessions of sex or rough sex!!

Good luck!!

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