About a week ago I had my first period in months (due to my contraception injection). In the first couple of days of my period, my vagina was abnormally itchy and I wondered if maybe I had a yeast infection. A couple of days later a noticed slight stinginess when I peed and decided to check it out and found this sore. This is the first time I've ever had a sore on my vagina and my mind is in over drive.
Background: I was seeing a guy and having unprotected sex for around 9 months, he told me he was clean of STD's and you can never be certain if somebody is being truthful. I know I was STD free before sleeping with him. We haven't slept together in around 3 months, I've had no symptoms during this time until now on my period.
Could this be the result of me scratching during my period or a reaction to my menstrual pad? or a yeast infection or could it be Herpes? My period has finished and the area is no longer itchy, I don't particularly have discharged and there is a slight smell but I think this could be from me not washing as thoroughly because of the sore. The sore has not spread to anywhere else.
UPDATED PHOTO: The photo posted above originally is from yesterday. Today I checked just now and the sores seem to have gotten smaller over night, you can also see a little white discharge in this photo.
Thoughts?
UPDATED PHOTO 2: I’ve checked again this morning and it seems it has reduced in size slightly again. All these photos span over 4 days, the one attached is the most recent one.
sorry i have no insight on what this is because i have the same symptoms. did you ever find out what it was?
Hey, so my sore (the one in the photo) has completely healed now and that was about 4/5 days from when it first appeared. However, I have an appointment on Wednesday for a check up and I will post the results when I have them. Hope you’re okay, definitely book an appointment too if you’re able to!
will do! we’ll keep each other posted on the results.
any news
Hi everyone - apologies for the radio silence! By the time I went to my appointment the clustered sores were completely cleared up as they healed after about 5/6 days and therefore there was nothing to be swabbed and so I couldn’t be tested for the Herpes virus. They no longer do blood tests at the clinics where I live anymore, you have to pay privately if you need a blood test.
I was advised to wait and see if I had anything like this again and then get tested.
Fast forward to now! Almost 2 months on and I had a slight itch and checked today and saw I have a tiny sore in the exact same place as before - so I’m unfortunately thinking it is indeed herpes, I’ve not had sex since before my first post so around 6 months ago.
As we are in the middle of a pandemic I cannot go to the clinic or urgent care so I’m looking in to purchasing a home test. Picture attached of new sore.