Conditions
Lymphogranuloma Venereum
This might sound like the scientific name of a recently discovered species of deep sea jellyfish, but LGV is actually a sexually transmitted infection that, until a few years ago, was very rare in the UK and the rest of Western Europe. However, that situation changed in 2003 and 2004 when there were a series of outbreaks among gay men. LGV is almost exclusively transmitted sexually. The bacteria can be transmitted when infected mucosal surfaces (in men, the warm moist skin of the mouth, penis and rectum) come into contact with an uninfected person’s mucosal surfaces, during unprotected anal and oral sex, and fisting. LGV is actually a strain of Chlamydia. However, whereas a regular Chlamydia infection can be treated with a one-off dose of antibiotics for one week; LGV requires a 3 week course. If you want to avoid symptoms such as festering sores and ruptured, pus-filled glands, in and around the anus and groin, wear a condom!
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I was diagnosed with folliculitis in my pubic area only. I'm in fifth decade. More recently, (approx 6 months), lumps have been appearing at the crease where the top of my legs are, but further away from the pubic hair area. With much palpating I can eventually squeeze these and a sticky liquid is expelled. Occasionally, there is also green pus.
What are these?
i am 22 and i have white spots more like sores just on the inside of my rectum its very sore and painful and its very hard to go to the toilet they do get itchy but now they are just sore its very uncomfortable please help
Hi, i keep getting a pea sized sore/boil on my labia minora, no hair follicles near. The boil is extremely painful and after a few days comes to a head and pops. The boil always reappears in the sames place. Can you help?
I am 45 female,who has always had spots(white ones not pussy or blisters) around my vagina.I have been checked for sti's and I do not have any.However whenever I have had unprotected sex with a partner these spots/lumps are transferred-I am at my wits end for answers.I also had oral sex and found white lumps underskin on the lip of my mouth .Please help me.I am desperate to sort this out.
Hi Im 16 years old
At the head of my penis some of my foreskin is no attacthed to the head of my penis and it has like a gap between the head and the top of the shaft.
Also At the top and bottom of the shaft I have tiny white lumps under my skin , they are not painful in anyway but i am concerned.
If I pull down the forskin the top of my penis shaft hurts
I have 3cm-size knotty lumps under the skin on either side of my clitoris, outside the vulva. I've been to the doctor, who said they were probably boils or cysts. But wouldn't I be able to 'pop' or 'lance' them if they were skin-related? Mine are deeper down and seem to be attached to internal tissue, not skin. They're painless – except sometimes during my period, when increased circulation to the area causes discomfort. I first noticed them when I was 18; I'm 32 now.
Any advice would be brilliant.
hi im 14 and i'm quite worried because i have small spot like lumps on my scrotum and penis. what is it?
hia, ive read other peoples comments who seem to get the same thing as i do, i've been with my boyfriend for two years and he has no sti's, although i have had a pea sized lump along the side of my vagina places where i shave, although it has reapeared, but once on the side of my labia. Once it went a purple colour when i applied pressure to it as if there was trapped blood beneath the surface and burst when i picked it. A hair came out but once it didn't. it's only happenned about four times sinze i have been shaving. My boyfriend recently had a red spot on his penis so i'm getting worried that it's not just ingrowing hairs or a cist like my doctor said it was.
thankyou
I have a pea size lump on my right Labia minora, i showed it to my GP and she said it was a small boil and squeezed it, puss came out. The same thing happened again about 4 weeks later, now its left a smaller lump and the right Labia minora seems slightly bigger/swollen than the left Labia minora, is this normal ? was my GP right ? was it a boil ? and will it ever go?
Also i have lots of small lumps all around the outside of my Labia minora and inside my Labia majora they have been there as long as i can remember. i have visited GUM clinics for check ups and they have never said anything about the small lumps but i have never pointed them out to them, they are like hard spots are they normal?
Hi
I am just over forty and have been having what i can only describe as an intolerable tickle in my rectum.Its driving me nuts.i cant focus or function when its happing.Please help me im desperate!
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