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Genital Herpes or Vaginal thrush
I am fairly young under the age of 18 and had been engaging in oral sex with my boyfriend who has suffered from a cold sore years ago. I had oral sex with him on a Saturday and then by the Wednesday I had some discomfort weeing. I had a look up my vagina on the Saturday to see thrush build up (have encountered thrush oral/vaginal for two years every few months). I treated it with canestan, however I was finding it painful to wee and to sit down properly. The next week I went to the doctors on Tuesday and was told I have genital herpes, and had medication thrown at me without any swabs taken. I then decided to go to a GUM clinic on the Thursday to be swabbed, I am now waiting for my results. The lady who swabbed me said it looks like genital herpes. However I keep reading it up on the internet and have found that a yeast infection can also cause red bumps down there. I have suffered with yeast infections for two years both in my mouth and vagina. I was put on the mini pill to stop the reoccurring of the infection however I still had it. They have said my hormones are incredibly imbalanced, my mother and my nan have also had these spots down there and it has been to do with a yeast infection. My question is what do you think it is, a yeast infection or herpes.
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im sorry to say probably herpes. but it will be okay justtake the meds and let the bf know too and know he may of given it to you. take it as a lesson learned and learn to live with it as hard as it may be.
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What I think will not solve the problem is I guess wrong. However since you have suffered yeast infections in the past and are prone to getting them and/or thrush, it simply means that not only are the hormones imbalanced but your body is needing someething else in vitamins or supplements, amino acids, etc that are missing in your diet.
If what you have at any given point in time is not an outbreak of herpes or both herpes and yeast at same time, then you need only to treat the yeast. It can be done by adding probiotics to your diet. One food that has some is yogurt and you may have heard people say to take that for yeast infections, eating it or plain yogurt placed inside the vagina for yeast infections. I am putting 2 links up to get you educated on probiotics and foods that are good to eat. However, the best way to add it into the diet is to go to a vitamin supplement store or health food store in your area or order on line and get probiotics with high concentration of live cultures. This is what will treat the imbalance causing yeast infections and also help prevent it in the future. You can get a 2nd opinion on the herpes though. I have it too but not often. I got regular screening for STDs but never asked them to screen for herpes which most places won't as it is such a common disease that the maajority of people have it. The problem is that a person can be a carrier of the virus but never having had an outbreak. Stress is what usually causes an outbreak. When I left a bad marriage and went through a divorce and had to get resettled on my own, that was the greatest stress I'd ever had at once and that caused me to have my first outbreak after years of never having it even though I was a carrier. A carrier can pass it on just by skin contact even without an outbreak as the germs of the virus will be present on the surface of the skin having traveled up the nerves from where they lay dormant until they rise to the surface usually because of stress or low immune system. Trying to determine if its herpes simply by looking at your skin is not good enough, they need to test in a lab to be sure. Right now, I'd focus on getting rid of yeast problems. Heres the links:
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