r/Healthyhooha

So I have noticed that there are like these two raised,but flat white lumps in my vagina,it doesn't really hurt or itch unless I rub or press very hard.But like is this normal.Also it is very visible if I just spread out the labia majora.Guys I'm really scared pls tell me.I have seen a gp a few times,but just for general check ups nor, specifically for this.She checked my vagina twice and never said anything.Guys this stuff really scares me.

I have had it for 4 years

GUYS IM ALSO STRUGGLING TO ADD A PHOTO BECAUSE IM NEW

Thank you!

Im 19F and my mom is exhausted 24/7 and doesn’t take hygiene or adulting i guess as seriously as she should. I gave up washing up after my parents a long time ago because they cant maintain it (its literally just us 3) so i leave their chores like laundry and dishes alone because its exhausting for the same mess to be back the next day. i basically live independently except for financially. i do my own laundry, dishes, cooking, general house cleaning, my own groceries, handle my own prescriptions and general healthcare and appointments. i cant move out because my country has a housing crisis and rents at an all time high, i wouldnt be able to sustain it.

since she doesnt do laundry especially her own, i’ve caught her using my underwear instead of washing hers. Ive deduced this easily because her discharge leaves bleach stains and mine doesnt. as well as stretched or torn elastic because shes not the same size as me.

Ive confronted her about this once. she didnt really take it seriously and she just said okay and that the topic was making her uncomfortable.

it obviously didnt stop and i honestly dont want to find out if just simply throwing them in the wash is doing enough but i cant afford to keep buying new underwear.

I also just found crab lice/scabies cream in a drawer. the box was empty and prescribed recently to her name. shes had a couple scabs and red spots around her chest and arms but i didnt think much of it.

ive had no itching down south but my god am i paranoid now. help please me lol i dont even know where to began handling this

TLDR: mom uses my underwear instead of washing her own, found scabies/crab lice cream prescribed to her, no genital crustaceans suspected currently but perhaps i should be on the safe side

Hello!

Does anyone else enjoy their natural vaginal scent pre or post sex?

So often I see posts where vaginal scent is described as 'fishy' or 'unpleasant '. It makes me sad because I love my scent most days.

Before sex, I think my gina smells fine. Not smelly, not pungent, not unpleasant.

After sex, my gina smells divine. It's like a party of happy scents, memories, and a mixture of enjoyable scents.

As an alternative, I may be the oddball because I embrace my scent.

As a note: i don't use PH balancing products. The times I tried, my gina was not happy and had an unpleasant scent for a few days following use.

HI OKAY so whenever me and my partner have sex i vaginally bleed afterwards (even if he didn’t like use his fingers or cut me accidentally). like, literally just inserting himself in makes me bleed and idk why. i try very hard to take care of my lady parts and keep the PH good and make sure she is always healthy but i’ve always had this problem. is this normal or am i gonna explode and die. 😰

for reference he’s the only person i’ve been intimate with so i don’t think it could be an STD especially since we use the right protection to be safe from that.

but like. is this means for panic or is this just a case of my body is a little quirky

I might be losing my virginity on this weekend but im also gonna be ovulating. Is it advisable to lose virginity during ovulation or should I do it next weekend but I’ll be closer to my period and likely will be PMSing. I’m just confused and if I should be thinking so much about this 🥲🥲 thank you

Edit: im not expecting it to be like in the videos or books or movies, I don’t expect to finish I just want to enjoy but I have a HUGE fear or getting pregnant which is why I’m here

Hello!

After sex, I always feel irritation at the opening. I usually use a warm compress or use cranberry pills. That seems to help but i was wondering if there was a better way.

I had sex monday yet still feel the irritation. It’s like having a tear irritation, even though i currently don’t have one. It’s also not a uti. He’s on the bigger side so I always feel this way afterwards. I want to have sex with him again on thursday and want to feel better down there.

So usually I’ve never ever had anything before issues before so this have been a stressful year and I’ve had this happen now three times. The first time it got infected, I got picked up by the ambulance (low pain tolerance lol) and was on morphine and it popped at the hospital LUCKILY. This may have been because I was trying lots of home remedies or maybe not enough? I put PRID on the day it popped at the hospital so maybe that helped but I’ll never know for sure.

the second time I knew what was coming, tried to put things in place to prevent. Went to the gp, took meds before it got large, tried sitz baths where I didn’t actually sit more like hover over really hot steam. I feel like I possibly tried less remedies I can’t remember. When I went to the hospital I stayed overnight, I couldn’t pee I was in pain but not as much as the first time. I ended up getting marsupialisation, which I thought would completely reduce the chance of it coming back but now I’m not so sure

My BC is on the right side and almost goin inside, I’m not sure if I’m allowed or what I should/should not put on it. At this current moment the size of a grape? Maybe a little smaller?

I’m looking into going private, I’m from the UK and I most definitely don’t want to get my gland removed as I see this more like a last option as this has only just started happening to me this year, whilst working, wearing tight leggings/thongs to bed. I’m not too sure what the reasoning is as I also have bad periods. I’m having lots of tests done to see if I can have a deeper look.

I just want to know safe remedies, if it’s safe to put caster oil or things like that on it? What people’s suggestions are I REALLY NEED IT. I I’m so stressed that it’ll get as bad as the last time but maybe my surgery has worked and it will eventually get smaller by itself?

GPs in the UK don’t seem to have the best advice and are telling me what I know already, I just don’t want to wait to have to go to the hospital and really want to try and figure out a home remedy, or if it will eventually work.

Pray for me

So I have heard of bar soaps, yoni bars, feminine washes. I have no idea what to use. I have a ph imbalance issue. I've had it off and on since I was a young teenager. I don't trust yoni bars. I just wanna be clean. What works the best? I'm 20 and have no mother so I don't have anyone to go to to ask. Any advice is welcome! Please no rude comments.

Hi there
I’m (23F) supposed to go to Florida on Friday, planned on drinking. I think I have a uti which means I’ll have to go on antibiotics. Can I still drink??? I’m so sad I just wanted to have a fun vacation after working my ass off for so long lol. This is the only vacation I’ll get this year and took so much to even get the time off of work.

What do you think?

Hi everybody!

This may be an unconventional success story in that I didn't find a "cure" for my UTI's and yeast infections, and certainly not through many of the solutions offered to us like anti-fungals, anti-biotics, anti-candida diet, cranberry juice, etc... rather I found and eliminated the cause, which was gluten of all things.

For the last ~5 years I'd been struggling with on and off UTI's and yeast infections. I tried all the things I mentioned above, tried abstaining from sex, changing my laundry detergent, using 100% cotton underwear, y'all know the drill. The infections would kind of go away with anti-biotics and anti-fungals but I always had that slight feeling of discomfort even if it wasn't a full blown infection.

Fast forward to early last year, when I developed a full blown UTI which turned chronic. I'm very lucky to have a doctor in my clinic who specialises in chronic UTI's, and she put me on a strict regimen of daily anti-biotics, anti-fungals (to ward off the recurrent yeasties that sprung up as a result of the anti-biotic use), methenamine hippurate (hiprex) and boric acid suppositories as needed.

It was a fair few drugs I was putting into my body which I worried about, but for the most part it kept things at bay, which was a relief. I wasn't having as many sleepless nights hunched over the toilet, I wasn't having insane itchiness that made you want to rip your hair out. But I was having residual symptoms of incomplete emptying of the bladder, predictable flare ups after drinking coffee, having sex etc, pain in my bladder even when I wasn’t peeing, discomfort in that general area, and a few other things.

So I was on this regimen for over a year until I went in for a blood test and it came back showing high markers for gluten intolerance! My doctor said I could either get a gastroscopy to 100% confirm it or just start a gluten free diet and see how I went. I chose the diet (couldn't afford the gastroscopy) and holy shit... all of these symptoms that I thought were normal for me just faded away.

No more 24/7 brain fog, no more unpredictable pain in my lower abdomen, no more heartburn, no more random itching on my skin... and most surprisingly, those residual symptoms I was still having from my UTI and yeast infections just disappeared.

It might be too early to say, but I've now been gluten free for just under four months, and I haven't had a single UTI or yeast infection symptom. About a month into being gluten free, I stopped taking the anti-biotics, anti-fungals and hiprex, though I'll occasionally use boric acid after sex as a precaution if my partner and I hadn't properly scrubbed ourselves in the shower beforehand. (I'm still on high alert about ANYTHING nasty getting near my hooha). The only time I've noticed a slight funny feeling down there is when I've slipped up on my diet (beer, looking at you), or had a decent amount of spicy food.

I never would have suspected that I had a gluten intolerance. Even though I was having all of these annoying symptoms with no apparent cause or cure -- gluten intolerance was just never on my radar. Importantly - there is a fair bit of literature proving that gluten intolerance is linked to chronic bladder pain, urgency and irritation that mimics UTI, AND is linked to recurring yeast infections.

PLEASE go and get tested for gluten intolerance if you have the means to. I feel so relieved that this was my cause and that it's something I can manage through my diet. Go and look at the literature online about the gluten-UTI + gluten-candida links.

Good luck to any of you that are experiencing chronic infections, I hope your hoohas show you some kindness!

my n my partner were fooling around and he was using his fingers and he scratched the inside of my vagina and it’s been a couple hours since then but it hurts a lot when i go pee and when i move around. do i like do anything or just let it heal on its own?? 😭

Hi all,

So I’m in an embarrassing predicament. I’m too scared to talk to my own mother about this, so of course like the average person I’m instead choosing to broadcast this invasive and highly embarrassing concern to hundreds more people on the internet. 🧍‍♀️

Essentially, I don’t have the resources for safe sex toys at the moment. I only recently turned eighteen, and don’t have much in my bank account other than enough to pay my phone bill. I was desperate, so…I used a hair curler for penetrating masturbation. I think I may have inserted it too far, or maybe the sharper ridges were scraping up against something, because there was a slight pain during said act.

After completing the deed, I noticed there was a fair amount of blood on it. I mean, not enough for me to be worried I’m bleeding out. But, enough to make me question whether or not I just got my period and had a jelly fish slip out? Anyway, now I’m sitting here and overthinking whether or not I just cracked my vagina in half or something. I’m not feeling any pain really, it’s just stinging a bit now and this is…moments after the act? I’m just worried and this seemed to be the place to consult whether or not I should be seriously concerned. What do I do?

I (22f) have gone 6 months without sex and I was planning on continuing to abstain. However, this weekend (Saturday) I drank with a male friend who I’ve known for 7 years and had hung out with and had drinks together in the past with nothing happening. However, this particular time when I went over he kept pouring shots which I didn’t think too much of granted that we have drank together and nothing happened previously, so I didn’t take him as that kind of guy. Fast forward, I black out (which also hasn’t happened before) and have no recollection of what happened that night but woke up clothed so I went home and figured I just fell asleep. I got anxiety about it and texted on Monday saying hey did anything happen this weekend? He responded yes we had sex and that he thought I was sober enough and said he it was unprotected, I obviously freaked out. I called by obgyn and have an appointment on Friday to get std/sti tested, which is 6 days after this encounter. Is this too early to get tested? Should I reschedule it or go anyway? I feel like an idiot

Hi, for some context I’ve been going out with this guy for about 3ish months and properly dating for one. Every time I see him I come home with my trousers drenched regardless of the fact we never do anything sexual but this wasn’t too big of an issue until recently. We’ve started staying over at each other places and we haven’t had sex but even just cuddling or kissing makes me feel like I’ve peed the bed. It goes through all layers of clothing and it’s extremely uncomfortable. He laughs it off or makes sarcastic jokes saying he’s into it so it’s not an issue because of him but I just feel weird. For more context, I’m 18 and it’s my first proper relationship with touching and what not. Will this go away on its own or is there anything I can do? I guess the more I do stuff with him the more used to him I’ll be but at the same time we live 3 hours away and see each other once a week so I don’t wanna wait a year until I’m super comfortable and have to make do. Sometimes, there’s a faint odour of urine after as well which bothers me 😀 what if I think it’s arousal fluid but I’m just peeing myself??

i actually am so unbelievably upset rn i can’t even put it into words

for context, im 18 and this started about a year ago when i first got my cherry popped so to speak. first came the utis. not one, not two but over TEN in a year, so many that i lost count once it got over 10; then to add the cherry on top, im fairly certain i now have bv???

i’ve only ever had one sexual partner and we’re still together, he doesn’t have any stis or stds and we’re always safe, i just must be unlucky for a multitude of reasons (pelvic floor issues due to EDS) , not to mention that i’m a medicaid patient so my healthcare is subpar and often useless. i’ve seen countless urologists and gynourologisgs and JUST when i think i beat it, another uti pokes it’s ugly head back into my life.

the whole point of me making this post is to see if anyone else has experienced this. i’m tired of being told it’s “a phase” because even if it is one i’ve been struggling with it for a year straight and i just want it to end; it genuinely effects my self esteem so badly and i just wanna be like everyone else ☹️

I shaved it and I swear it’s been itching like crazy for 3 weeks straight now, no break. It’s torture.

So I’m a 21f not sure my age really matters but basically as the title implies I produce a lot of discharge like an annoying amount. It so bad sometimes I can actually feel it come out like the equivalent to a period gush when you sneeze but it’s discharge. It’s sticky egg white with a slightly yellow tinge because I’m in my luteal phase and literal strings of it will hang out of my vagina sometimes and it’s like all day…. It doesn’t matter when where how who atleast 4 times I’m going to the bathroom not to pee but to wipe it out of my underwear because I can feel it and if I didn’t work all day I’d be changing my undies 3-4 times a day when I’m asleep it doesn’t happen and I don’t wear underwear but as soon as I get up and put on underwear some leaks out and my undies are wet before I even do anything smh. During ovulation it’s less sticky and less stringy and more watered down and really white instead of having a yellowish tinge and I’ve had this basically my whole life since i started periods I’m just curious if anyone else experienced this or if it’s normal because it’s really annoying and I refuse to wear sanitary pads because their even more annoying then just dealing with the constant wetness… 😑 like is there anything that causes and overproduction of discharge? Most of my undies are cotton or moisture wicking and even if I wear one that isn’t as breathable I change then regularly obviously so like idk what the deal is

10 days ago I had sex, we used condoms. Pretty much the whole time he fingered me, inserted his penis about 5 times with a condom on. We didn’t do the spill test afterwards but it wasn’t broken. Later on when he finished it splashed and got on me, near my vagina, we did clean it off. My ovulation was 2-3 days later. I got irritated down there, it didn’t hurt or anything it was just this weird feeling after peeing but it pretty much went away. My period is in 8 days and today after wiping there were these pink spots on the toilet paper, it wasn’t like blood it was just pink. Could this be implantation bleeding? I’m extremely anxious.

Edit: That bleeding looked like implantation bleeding, it was watery and light pink, lasted a few hours, I didn’t get on my underwear, it was mostly after wiping, can somebody please explain that

Again: I think I might be starting my period 6 days earlier, is this normal?

Young 20s, but my skin down there is so dry I have a white cast and my perineum skin tears even when my partner just opens my legs / on the toilet…

I started moisturizing but there is only so many products you can put around that area before it becomes counter intuitive.

Anyone else get this??

finally had the conversation with my doctor after months of lurking threads like this one. wanted to share what she said and what i ended up doing

she confirmed a few things that reddit has basically taught me already: the vagina maintains its own environment, the vulva needs gentle external care, ph disruption from products or other factors is a real thing, and probiotics can help support microbial balance for some women. she didn't recommend against vaginal probiotics, she just said consistency matters and to make sure i was also addressing any underlying issues rather than just layering supplements on top

what i do now:

• uro ph balanced probiotic wash for cleansing. dermatologist tested, ph balanced, hypoallergenic, no parabens or sulfates. i use it externally on the vulva area, not internally
• uro vaginal probiotic capsule daily. four lactobacillus strains at 5 billion cfus plus xos prebiotics
• cotton underwear, changing after workouts, staying hydrated, limiting sugar

it's been four months. i feel more stable overall and the issues that were kind of constant background noise have mostly quieted down

not trying to convince anyone this is the answer. it's what worked for me and it lined up with what my doctor said about the general approach. still see my gyno for checkups