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For those of you who use Vaseline daily, are you just letting your underwear ruin over time or do you have tips for how to keep them from being so oily forever?

I was hoping after my flare up goes away I could stop using Vaseline long term and get new undies altogether, but it seems most people use Vaseline in between flares to help with dryness, etc. so I will probably do the same. Just hate the underwear situation and I don’t want to wear panty liners all the time :-/

I had my punch biopsy three days ago. She gave two injections of lidocaine+epi and that was unexpectedly deep pain. And unfortunately she didn’t inject deep enough because the pain from the punch biopsy was shocking. I had to get stitches too and she gave me two more numbing injections to get me further into the day with relief.

I was not expecting the horrific view when I looked 7 hours later, and how much worse it continued to get the next day. I am bruised like 3 inches up and down my entire vulvar area and the swelling is significant.

It’s so hard to sleep and I wake up in so much pain. Tylenol and ibuprofen have helped but I’m just sad. I’m glad I got the biopsy but I knew I’d struggle with this and I am. I just wanted to talk about it with people who understand. I’m also just so anxious about getting my results back. I will be devastated if they’re inconclusive as it’s been 10 months of fighting to get answers.