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I shaved my bikini area and went to a campground pool with my kids and took a dip not more than my waist.

2 days later I felt like I had cut myself shaving on my left vagina lip to my thigh. I didn’t think much of it because I had been hiking and I did check for ticks but thought maybe I got a little poison ivy?

Two days later I had pain in my lymph nodes in my groin only on that side and I fever with flu like symptoms. I went to my primary and she said it was probably a bartholin cyst but not big enough to do anything about, just bath, hot compress and topical antibiotics.

The next night was brutal I was so fever raged the blankets hurt my body. By the morning my entire left side of my vagina was like someone had overstuffed it like a sausage and I was in extreme pain.

I called my primary and she prescribed me oral antibiotics and said to go to urgent care to get it lanced if it got worse. I read a lot of things online about how painful that was and decided to self medicate at home with epson salt, hot rice in a sock and popping Tylenol rapid release and ibuprofen.

That was Friday. I managed over the weekend and the swelling went down but it left abrasions where my skin had stretched so much it was cracking and the baths were making the skin peel away.

I went to urgent care where they tried to give me lidocaine, that was the worst pain I’ve ever been in in my life. I’ve given birth, broken bones, nothing touched that pain. They then tried to lance it afterwards and I almost passed out. They didn’t get anything out of it.

I now have no skin on that side of my vagina, extreme anxiety about getting it treated again and worry I’ve got MRSA or staph instead. Any advice? I have an apt at women’s health in 2 days and one with my primary tomorrow but any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I shaved my bikini area and went to a campground pool with my kids and took a dip not more than my waist. 2 days later I felt like I had cut myself shaving on my left vagina lip to my thigh. I didn’t think much of it because I had been hiking and I did check for ticks but thought maybe I got a little poison ivy? Two days later I had pain in my lymph nodes in my groin only on that side and I fever with flu like symptoms. I went to my primary and she said it was probably a bartholin cyst but not big enough to do anything about, just bath, hot compress and topical antibiotics. The next night was brutal I was so fever raged the blankets hurt my body. By the morning my entire left side of my vagina was like someone had overstuffed it like a sausage and I was in extreme pain. I called my primary and she prescribed me oral antibiotics and said to go to urgent care to get it lanced if it got worse. I read a lot of things online about how painful that was and decided to self medicate at home with epson salt, hot rice in a sock and popping Tylenol rapid release and ibuprofen. That was Friday. I managed over the weekend and the swelling went down but it left abrasions where my skin had stretched so much it was cracking and the baths were making the skin peel away. I went to urgent care where they tried to give me lidocaine, that was the worst pain I’ve ever been in in my life. I’ve given birth, broken bones, nothing touched that pain. They then tried to lance it afterwards and I almost passed out. They didn’t get anything out of it. I now have no skin on that side of my vagina, extreme anxiety about getting it treated again and worry I’ve got MRSA or staph instead. Any advice? I have an apt at women’s health in 2 days and one with my primary tomorrow but any advice would be greatly appreciated.