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This is my second post after finding this subreddit. I’ve appreciated everyone who responded to me! But I need to rant, I feel like I have no one in my life who has felt this pain? Im 19f- I came home tonight after work, showered per usual. And instantly felt alot of pain in my vagina and my vaginal opening. I dried myself off and decided to look down there. I’m super irritated. Way worse than the last couple weeks. I feel like this is getting serious and I’m very scared. I wish I could just say this is another yeast infection. But it hurts 10x worse. I’ve been putting on this external vulvar cream. (Miconazole nitrate cream)I got it for my last yeast infection. I wouldn’t say it’s helping- but it makes me feel less tight since it’s adding some moisture that I’m very much so lacking. I do this once nightly. But all in all, I’m scared and worried. I’m not looking at google or symptoms, but I’m in pain and it’s scary. I want to go to the gynecologist so bad. But I know my appointment isn’t for a couple weeks to a month at best. I may need to find another one. Anywho rant over. If there are any woman in here who have better remedies that can help the pain, tightness, cuts- etc. please let me know what they are! I’ve heard people say coconut oil but is that safe to put around my vaginal opening? I definitely just need advice and safe products to use while I wait on seeing my doctor!

Hello! This is my first post on Reddit ever, so apologies if I do this wrong. I don’t want a diagnosis but I just need advice or help on what to do! I’m 19f back in may of this year I got my first ever yeast infection. It was terrible. I went to urgent care, got medication. It took two weeks to go away. After that I had recurring itching here n there. I started checking down there and realizing I had white patches inside of my labia minora and leading into my vaginal opening. It went away after a while so did the itching. But as of about three weeks- I’ve been experiencing little cuts around my vaginal opening and leading down to the area between the vagina and anus. I’ve done so much to try and prevent anything from irritating me. Switched to cotton underwear, tried to start wearing looser jeans at work. But nothing seems to be working. I’ve wrapped myself into researching lichen sclerosus because it’s the only thing that makes sense. For all of those in here who have been diagnosed, what was the first step? I’m hoping to see my gynecologist, but the office I go to normally takes a few months to even get an appointment. Any advice would be wonderful! And again sorry to the moderators if this post isn’t in terms or is written bad, this is my first time using reddit. Thank you for any feedback. 🫶