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How To Check Your Vulva
Around 1000 cases of vulval cancer are diagnosed every year in the UK, mainly in women who have been through the menopause. However, there are also a range of other vulval conditions that affect all women – highlighting how important it is to self-check your vulva. Although it may seem daunting if you haven’t self-checked before, Dr Dawn Harper’s guide will show you exactly how to conduct the check – so grab that mirror!
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The outside of my vagina is painfully itchy and has been for months. I have no idea what it could be as its not my hair abd i had it before i had sex..?
I have had a lump on my vagina lip for the last few months the last couple of days it seems to have got bigger and is tender to the touch now it never used to be I'm slightly worried.
When I enter my vagina I can feel a type of blister type thing,it feels much like a blister im not to sure what this is, is it normal? Do I have anything to worry about?
I have the same thing and it's nothing to worry about :) I went to a doctor and it's a disease that a lot of woman get. It can't hurt you and it doesn't have any side affects. It can be just embarrassing though. If you try to pop and mess with the white/yellow spots, however, you may feel itchness and or irration. Hope this helos! :D
I am 14 and have some small white dots on the inside of my labia just near where my pubic hair stops. I'm worried and don't know what to do. I've never had any kind of sex or sexual contact and I don't want to tell my mum because I'm way too awkward.
I have small white painful swollen lumps on the lips of my vagina and I'm freaking out what could they be
I have a lump inside my vagina that I can feel with the tip of my finger and can circle around it, I can only describe it as a cherry size round lump. Is this normal?
I have noticed thesame thing! If any one knows what this is pleas tell me! Im freakedout but am too embarrased to talk to my mom.
Its normal. Its your cervix.
i have white dot things on my vagina, they showed not long ago, i thought i might have herpes or something but i have no other symtoms, im going to the doctor in a few days. but im dying to know now!
i think i might have the same thing. i have little hard white bumbs but i cant pop them near my vaginal opening. im not sure how long they have been there, i just sort of noticed them not to long ago. im sure i dont have an std or hiv. iv only been with my husband for the last year. i have no other symtoms.
Hi I am 27 and I have a lump of sort that is near the left bottom part of my outter lips. It is feep under the skin and is not round at all it is a strange shape, more long and leading deeper into the skin. I have no pain but it is getting bigger not very quickly. I would say its large now its about the width of a thumb and I don't know the how long as i cant get to the end of it. The only other thing is my periods they have been all over the place for years so I don't know if i can trust them. Thanks.
i had a lump like that, not as big as you say yours is but after a few weeks i noticed another 2... i went to the clinic and they confirmed it was genital warts. They are easy to treat and easy to get. ( the nurse told me that most of the population has the infection in them without having sexual contact and that it can take simple things such as stress or pregnancy to make them come out) it does'nt necisseraliy mean you have caught them off someone. im not saying you have genital warts but the nurse did say to me that they come out like spots and then grow and become more cauliflour shaped... i hope this helps you and i would advise you to get checked out...
Hi I'm 15 and a couple of days ago I noticed it was getting sort of painful to have sex that's never happened before and I've had the same partner for a few months now.... Its a bump under the skin and its right underthe vagina hole it doesn't hurt and sometimes i even forget that its even there it only hurts when I touch it, it doesn't grow hair on it either? so i have no idea wat it might be I'm to embarrassed to tell my mom or go to the clinic... Does anyone jase any idea on what it could be?? Someone please help me!!!!!!!!
I think I have the same thing, is it red, and about the size of a lentil? I think it might just be a pimple, wait a week or two and see if it goes away, and if it doesn't I'd suggest going to a doctor.
Probably just a ingrown hair if you shave or wax or something :)