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Advice please re clitorus

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lynne1945
lynne1945

hi good ladies, I need help. I've been using perhaps too much steroid on my clitoral hood? Is that possible? I had some itching (which I never have anywhere else) and it helped so I kept using it. Now I seem to have no clitoral hood to speak of and have exposed the tip of my clitorus I presume, it's pinkish and swollen. It stings so badly when I pee and I am very careful to wash well with spray and dry. It's just sore and stinging for two days and I am at wits end. Any advice and should I keep the Mometasone away from the area? 

Just when I thought I had it sussed this happens. Am so disheartened, it's stopping me wanting to leave the house or do anything. Can I get my clitoral hood back to protect my poor little bud! 

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  • alistar
    alistar lynne1945

    Posted

    I've got a post where I've been sharing my experience using a saturated borax solution to treat my LS. In using it, for me, it has released some of the fusing I had, and that includes some fusing I was starting to have on my hood. The solution is made by adding borax (NOT boric acid nor boron) to water until the borax can no longer be disolved, making the water saturated with it. Then in the morning and night, with a q-tip, I've applied the solution to the affected area. Interestingly, when I felt itching it wasn't a flare-up but rather some of the fusing releasing and re-exposing the skin. The itch passed very quickly, basically once I distracted my mind (and applying some moisturizer to the area helps, like vitamin E, coconut oil or jojoba, whatever you prefer). Another woman has said that she's had a great success with organic cider vinegar to help with her LS, but she said it didn't help with the fusing. And still others have said that baking soda has helped with their fusing - I ran a comparison test between the borax on one side and the baking soda on the other, and for me the baking soda didn't do anything. Alas, for everyone it's different!

    But to answer your first question, yes you can overuse a steroid cream. I can't speak to what the results would be, but I'm sure someone else here can.

    • lynne1945
      lynne1945 alistar

      Posted

      Ah yes, Alistair, I have read your postings re the borax solution and indeed it seems to be doing the trick for you! Amazing and wonderful. 

      Silly me didn't say in my post that I have Lichen Planus, there doesn't seem to be many of us at all, but we don't have the white plaque covering healthy skin. Rather we (well, anyway, I) have lesions and it only seems to effect the inner labia and clitorus, we are the same in that the initial symptom is disappearing parts and I have virtually no labia minora and now clitoral hood disappearing 😒 We also don't have itching as a rule, well, I don't, and anal area not involved. 

      I do use the coconut oil at the moment and have tried many things in the past year. I do use baking soda when urine burns like now.

      I don't think your treatment will work for me, sadly, as I am just pretty raw and have several lesions which never heal. Some miraculous days, for some unknown reason, the area heals up for about one day and is just a sort of purplish shiny area and it feels just like a normal  persons downstairs dept. but that has only happened twice in a year. 

      Very good luck with your experiment! 

    • alistar
      alistar lynne1945

      Posted

      Have a read about tamanu oil. It's got some interesting properties. Maybe it's something you can incorporate to your routine that might help. I'm going to have a look, I feel like I read something about borax and lichen planus. I'll get back to you if I find it.
    • lynne1945
      lynne1945 alistar

      Posted

      Thank you for your interest and response! 😊
  • hanny32508
    hanny32508 lynne1945

    Posted

    In my opinion a person can use too much of the steroid cream. However when LS flares up you have little choice then to use it, though use small amounts. 

    The clitoris area in my case was the most difficult area to bring back to 'functioning'.  It probably will never return to what it was, but liveable at the moment.  The area requires my constant attention yet.  

    Baking soda baths and rinses have been very beneficial to me.  However, I have also discovered that with the beginning a a urethra infection it is good to use a little apple cider vinegar in my rinse bottle, instead of baking soda.  I don't know how this would be for the clitoris irritation.  A matter of trial and error I'm afraid.  

    What I have learned is that it is about a balance.  You could measure your pH balance for instance and see where you're at.  And then you can act accordingly.

    • lynne1945
      lynne1945 hanny32508

      Posted

      Oh, how do I measure my ph balance?

      It does seem as though things are changing all the time, some days ok then for no discernible reason everything hurts and or stings. My food rarely changes now but then there's a bit of stress and that sets it off I think.

       But this soreness on clitorus is a new thing for me. I think it's called glans of clitorus and it is now exposed due to disappearing hood and it rubs when  I walk etc. It's taught me a lesson about going a bit mad with the steroid! 

      Thanks Hanny for your imput. 

    • hanny32508
      hanny32508 lynne1945

      Posted

      You're welcome Lynne.  

      I hope that the clitorus area can be healed, or will heal itself.  It is a most difficult area for me too.  Constant alert is required.

      You can buy test strips at the pharmacy.  The strips are dipped in urine and give a certain colour. The colour is shown on an included piece of paper with underneath a number.  

      Important with this also is your diet. 

       

    • AnneMarie4321
      AnneMarie4321 hanny32508

      Posted

      I have questions about the clitoris being buried. My first LS breakout was about 7 months ago. Have had a couple less severe ones since. I've gotten tremendous relief and healing with the hydrogen peroxide/saline spray, and Caprylic MCT oil (derived from coconut oil) Didn't even know what the heck it was until I found this forum. Have not been to doctor but will make an appt. Noticing as I examine myself that area that my clitoris may be "disappearing" behind folds. I've been reading on this forum and wonder: does the steroid cream reverse the fusion a bit? Enough to free it again?

      I had a friend who had a procedure to "free" her clitoris -- not an LS sufferer, but her architecture was such that it was covered up & couldn't climax with her husband all their married years. She finally did some research and found a doctor who specializes in this, and he said "you're 100% covered up". With a minor procedure, she is now normal down there and able to be satisfied with her partner.

      I was just wondering if the steroid cream or perhaps this procedure could restore my clitoral area as well. It's been such a short time and my sex life was very satisfying just months ago! I'm 53, btw.

      Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

    • hanny32508
      hanny32508 AnneMarie4321

      Posted

      I have tried with a long response to answer your questions, but somehow the computer won't let me.  I'm testing whether it works perhaps this time.
    • hanny32508
      hanny32508

      Posted

      My experience is that the clitoris area is the most complicated area.  It's not perfect at the moment, but enough to give a satisfactory sexual experience. 

      ​I think that I can contribute it to a combination of things I do:  Clob, baking soda, coconut oil, hormone replacement and diet.  And that diligently.  One can never slack.  I forgot to mention dilation, to keep all stretched.

       

    • hanny32508
      hanny32508

      Posted

      I would not recommend surgery.  LS will never go away and chances are that it will soon cover the area again due to the stress of the process.
    • hanny32508
      hanny32508

      Posted

      I hope the above is of some help to you.
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