Vulvar Conditions
Frederick R. Jelovsek MD
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Growth on vulvar lips that swells up
I am too embarrassed to tell my mom or anyone and I don't go to a gynecologist but I have a problem that I really need help with. I wasn't quite sure where to go until I found this page.
Okay, inside like the lips to my vulva, where the flaps of skin are, there's like a growth. It's attached by a thin piece of skin and it just hangs off. I have had it for at least a year. It usually doesn't bother me and I don't pay any attention to it but every once in a while it swells up really bad into this huge hard ball, usually its a few days before and after my period.
It's really noticeable. It hurts me to walk, to move, sometimes to sit or even lie down. Does it sound like a simple infection? Its usually not hard most of the time it is just like limp and like excess skin. Is there something over-the-counter I could get to help it? Cream?
Please tell me there is! I'm scared. If it helps, I'm under 18, I am sexually active. Please. Reply soon, as I am writing this it hurts me to sit down. I'd appreciate any help I could get.
Can't tell without actually seeing it but it sounds like a polyp of the vagina, a skin tag or gland infection of the hymen or labia minora or maybe even a condyloma accuminata.
The periodic swelling may represent a gland in the skin tag in which the duct gets periodically blocked. If you see a gynecologist, that should be easily removed if it is on a stalk. I don't think there is any cream you can use or anything you can do yourself to get rid of it.
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I am not sure if I have a yeast infection or something similar. So I will start at the beginning. On Sunday, my husband and I were having sex and it was a little rougher than usual, and when he started the penetration I heard something that sounded like a joint cracking. I didn't really think anything of it and soon forgot about it. Monday, I felt pretty sore in my vagina--sore enough to have to slowly sit down instead of plop myself on the couch. Then Tuesday came along and I began to feel like I was developing a yeast infection, so I went to the store and bought Miconazole 7. I used that Tuesday night, and Wednesday I added some to the outside since it was a little more itchy than the previous day and I of course injected myself before bed time. Thursday morning, I woke up not feeling itchy at all, but instead very sore on the right of my vagina, and I felt like I had a growth. I checked myself in the bathroom, and I have a big lump that is sore and very tender. As the day wore on, the itching returned and I still felt sore. I haven't been able to sleep and I didn't inject myself with the medicine again because I don't know if I am having an allergic reaction to it. To make matters worse, I am either randomly bleeding or I just started my period. I am seeing my doctor tomorrow, but I am very worried and I wanted to know if there is anything I can to for the time being?