HELP! Does this look like herpes?!
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One of these bumps showed up a few days after my most recent period. Where the bump showed up my vagina was very itchy and red before the bump was visible. Once the bump was visible is when it started hurting. It hurt for a few days like 3 at most and then started itching really bad. Then the second bump showed up right next to it. The first one when i guess popped while I was walking or whatever but when I was messing with it had a piece of skin that looked like a scab over it, I took it off and yellowish looking pus came out of it. The first one doesn't have anymore pus coming out but the second one now does and its the same color. Its been a little over a week since the first one showed up. The bumps are now super itchy but still kind of raised. I went to the doctor for a cold a couple of days ago and showed her pictures of the bumps. She said it didn't look like herpes bumps but told me if they don't go away in a week to come back. PLEASE HELP! DO THESE LOOK LIKE HERPES BUMPS?? And could my cold be from the outbreak???
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ashley71071 mysterygurl
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Looks like it could be ingrown hair just watch it over next few days it do not look like herpes
mysterygurl ashley71071
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Thanks, they aren't seeming to go down though. And this coming up sunday would be officially 2 weeks for one of the bumps. Do you know if herpes could be raised bumps too? Because they are raised to the touch
katie42587 mysterygurl
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They look like ingrown hairs to me too, possibly a little infected and inflamed. Try some antiseptic cream and keep an eye on them but I wouldn't say it looks like herpes at the moment
mysterygurl katie42587
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Whats a good brand for antiseptic cream? And now the bumps are like yellow where the pus normally comes out but its dry and the skin around the bumps is "scaling." They are more raised to the touch and I don't know if they are still there by next week I am definitely going back to the doctor to get a test done
katie42587 mysterygurl
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Savlon or Sudocrem are both good and won't cause any irritation.
I agree go back and get a swab test if you are still worried as that will put your mind at rest. Herpes sores typically look like a mouth ulcer...they are quite flat and yellow/white then they scab over when healing
mysterygurl
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this is an updated picture of the bumps, its been approximately 3 weeks since they showed up. I still don't know what they are or what to do about them. I haven't been able to go to the doctor yet. anybody have any ideas on what it could possibly be?
xDx91xPi mysterygurl
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they are definitely ingrowns, maybe even a bit of an infected follicle.
try not shave over them it will just make it worse as the hair will grow back but might not grow the way it should.
maybe if you went to a place that does waxing they may be able to remove ingrowns for you?
nunyabiz mysterygurl
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im late but that is NOT an ingrown! take it from someone who's very prone to ingrowns. ingrowns hair a hair stuck all the way inside. looks like something else
Imscared11455 nunyabiz
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ive had many ingrown hairs as well and sometimes on the bump ill have other hairs grown out of it while the ingrown one is still stuck inside
Funnybunny Imscared11455
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did you find out what they are and how to get rid of it ?
nunyabiz Imscared11455
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yeah youre totally right. my bad. ingrowns do come in different ways
nan83303 mysterygurl
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what was that?
Emily4444 mysterygurl
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did you find out what it was? xxx
chris544 Emily4444
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does it burn
cc93887 mysterygurl
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HSV lesions don't last 3 weeks. Likely cysts or ingrowns. Go to the derm.