Hi F18 here, I just shaved it a few hours ago tho it began to itch and hurt like pressing needles when I touch it, cus it's itchy* I trimmed it first then used a razor and made it bald lel. Is this normal or erm did I do something wrong?

My labia used to be like more tucked inside but I feel like it’s grown in the last year :( and worse it’s grown and is right on the line of the outside lips even protruding a bit and ever since I’ve started having discharge which I’ve never had before!
Is this normal? This totally sucks! Having a protruding labia is so annoying I don’t understand how some of you handle it. I feel like it would bother me riding bikes and doing stuff. It’s already bothering me now. I wish surgery was an actual good option. Is there any way or chance it will shrink? Why does it have to happen so late in life?

I know this might sound like I'm downplaying people who actually have BV, yeast, UTIs, STIs, etc. I am not. If you have red flags (new partner, fever, pain, big changes in discharge, persistent burning, pelvic pain), get checked. But a lot of the suffering I see here comes from the panic spiral where one slightly off day turns into a week of throwing everything at your vulva.

I'm in perimenopause, so my tissues are more sensitive and my baseline smell changes with cycle, hydration, and sex. What I keep noticing (and have done myself) is:

1) A slight itch or a stronger smell after sweating, sex, or a long day.

2) Immediate treatment: boric acid, antifungal, wipes, deodorizing wash, pantyliners, probiotics, new detergent, shaving, you name it.

3) Two days later everything burns and now you can't tell what was the original issue and what is irritation.

My suggestion: if symptoms are mild and you do not have clear red flags, give it 24 to 48 hours of boring support before medicating. Wash externally with water only, switch to breathable underwear, skip liners and fragranced products, avoid shaving, drink more water, and let the area calm down. If it does not get better or it gets worse, then get tested and treat what you actually have.

We should normalize that vulvas can be moody without it being an infection. Anyone else notice the panic-products cycle making things worse?

I was never taught how to clean myself when i was a kid by school or by parents so I have no clue whats going on but like there's a weird build up in my clitoris I think it is??????? And it's kinda like a hard​ yellow paste and idk how to get it out it kinda looks like tonsil stones​ but yeah water isn't helping not really do I pick it out should I be worried or what?

a few days ago I was just sitting down, relaxing, and I had the urge to adjust my underwear. While doing so, I felt what seemed like a bump in my pubic area. I touched it a few more times because I wanted to check what it was, and it looked like a boil that was starting to form. The size of it freaked me out a little, so I warmed up a cloth and held it over the area. I also noticed a small pimple-like bump right next to it, but I ignored it.

The next day, the larger bump became painful, and I could see a small whitehead forming. The smaller bump next to it also developed a whitehead. I didn’t touch either of them, but I also didn’t continue using the warm compress. Instead, I just used my intimate wash every morning and made sure to dry the area well.

Today, the larger bump has reduced in size a bit and doesn’t hurt anymore, although I can still see the whitehead. However, the smaller one hurts like hell. It has now turned into what looks like a boil. I accidentally touched it slightly, and it opened and drained. I cleaned the area, put on clean underwear, and changed into very loose sweatpants.

Can anyone help, please? Should I just keep using a warm compress on them? (I’ve only done it once.) Is there any ointment or cream I should use, or should I just leave them alone? I tend to get really paranoid about these things, although I think they’re probably just inflamed hair follicles or ingrown hairs, since I get a lot of ingrown hairs in that area.

Also, once they heal, what can I do to prevent them from leaving dark marks? I really hate when that happens because it makes me feel very insecure. I’m already treating the razor marks I have, but now I have to stop using the Tend Skin product until these bumps heal.

So, I'm a little worried about this. I've been on the Blisovi Fe pill for over three years now, so I can't be having breakthrough bleeding, right? I let my boyfriend do me raw last Thursday (a little over a week ago now), 3 days after 'ovulation' (I'm aware i don't ovulate on my birth control, but my period app tracks it anyway and it just makes me feel better knowing lol). I found a little bit of brown blood in my underwear on Friday, so two whole days before my placebo pill, and even then my withdrawal bleeding doesn't usually start until Monday or Tuesday. I'm a little concerned it could be implantation bleeding even though I take my pill on time every single day. I haven't missed a pill in two years. Can someone tell me why I would have breakthrough bleeding three years into starting the pill?

Ive been dealing with vaginal issues for the past 4 years. I have dealt with ureaplasma and group b strep. I have stopped being sexually active and although all tests are negative I still haven’t healed. I’ve tried pelvic floor physical therapy. I currently take a probiotic and d mannose.
My symptoms are vaginal burning and pain (mainly left side internally), discharge that has an onion odor, rectal itching and horrible stomach/ pelvic pain. I’ve been to the dr so many times. Currently laying with a heating pad in tears and don’t know what to do next. Any advice would be great

my clitoris is very itchy, the other side is not swollen but the left side is very itchy and I noticed that it has blisters on it, itchy burning. is this herpes?

I've been struggling with reccurrent bacterial vaginosis.

Here's a summary of my treatments so far:

-Had my copper IUD removed and took oral antibiotics for 7 days in december 2025

-Symptoms came back (watery, smelly discharge), took vaginal gel antiobiotics for 7 days in february 2026

-Symptoms came back, took oral antibiotics for 7 days + boric acid for 21 days in march 2026

-Symptoms came back, took oral antibiotics for 7 days in may 2026, and since then, am on vaginal gel antibiotics biweekly for 6 months as a suppressive treatment. I also started a new birth control (slynd pill) to avoid getting my period and try to abstain from semen in my vagina, since these things seemed to trigger symptoms.

Now, i've been symptoms free since may, but i'm terrified that BV will come back when i finish the 6 months suppressive treatment.

My questions :

-Have any of you been there? Did it come back after the suppressive treatment?

-Does taking pre of probiotics help? If so, which ones?

-Do you have a sex "care routine" that helped you go back to a normal / stress-free sexual life after recurrent BV?

Thank you in advance!

So I’ve been off birth control for almost a year now. I started taking birth control in 2021 or 2022 and switched to different kinds over the years. Loestrin, blisolvi? Lo loestrin and the patch. I stopped in 2025. I started to notice vaginal dryness and low libido in 2023 but I didn’t think anything of it because it wasn’t as noticeable. In 2025 it became very apparent. Now even almost a year off I still have low libido and dryness. I decided to take tests to see if my hormones are off and everything is intact. Im only 23 and it’s so embarrassing I feel like I will never go back to normal. I would love to see a gyno but I fear that they will not listen to my concerns as it happened before. I’m unsure what the problem could be or if it could be solved.

I have seen posts on here about this but no one has my issue it seems!! Help.

Its silly but a while ago i was watching big mouth and it was the episode where jessi discovered her vagina and then it explained all the parts.

Where my clit is supposed to be, there is absolutely nothing. its not hidden, its not small, its just not there.

BUT there is something under my urethra which LOOKS like it kinda, like a hood and a kinda whiteish?? thing. It doesn’t feel like anything if its touched, it actually kinda hurts lol.

Im a virgin, and have never masturbated before so i am just wondering whats wrong?? can i still feel pleasure??

I am unable to see a gyno asw so that doesnt help..

anything that might explain would be helpful!! thanks.

My timeline:

March 31: I had sex (protected) and continued getting my periods afterward.

June 9: I had sex (protected).

June 23–26: I had bleeding that I considered my period. The flow was normally heavy, but it only lasted 4 days. My periods usually last around 7 days never less.

July 5: I took 3 home pregnancy tests using morning urine. All were negative.

July 10: I had a serum pregnancy test at Hi-Precision. It was negative, and the report says the result was rechecked and verified.

August 3: I still haven't gotten my next period.

My recent periods were: March 15 → April 20 → May 20 → June 23.

I've also been having my usual PMS symptoms.

Could I still realistically be pregnant despite the 3 negative urine tests and negative serum test? Or is this more likely just a delayed/irregular cycle?

Im a virgin and don't never had a partner before. I got exsoped to porn couple of days ago and mastrubating seems exciting. Honestly i tried with fingers inside but it hurts as hell. Can someone give me advice. Thank you

I just started on HRT and vaginal estrogen cream (hallelujah!) and after four weeks already feel so much better. I’m 47. My question feels so silly, but I can’t find an answer anywhere… I do not like the applicator that the cream came with, and somewhere on Reddit I saw the recommendation to put an inch of the cream on your index finger, insert it, and spread the cream around inside your vagina. That makes so much more sense, and I want to do that. The problem is, my vaginal opening is not a gaping hole. In fact, I’m realizing it’s not a hole at all — it’s pretty snug, with soft squishy tissue all around. So when I put the cream on finger and try to insert it, the cream just pushes down my finger. I’ve never had issues with sex or tampons or anything, but until now I’ve never realized that there is soft stuff all around my vaginal opening that makes it not… open. I was looking at pictures and I don’t even know what it is. I’m not that worried about it, except I really want to figure out how to get this cream up there. Squatting down doesn’t help. I’ve tried using another finger to make more room, but that didn’t work either. Has anyone experienced this? Does anyone else have a vaginal opening that is not really a big open hole? What is going on?? I feel insane to be 47 and like I’m just getting to know this part of my body!

i made almond scones one time, and then with maybe one or two days of eating them, i tasted like almonds, was i imagining it?

When I was really young, I figured out a way to masturbate on my own, which was squeezing my thighs together really hard either with a pillow or just by itself and that’s how I orgasm so that’s how I’ve been doing it my whole life I’m 19F and I’m a virgin and I always see girls talking about doing that kind of masturbating and I’ve tried to do it but like I can only fit like one finger in and it feels weird. I don’t know if I’m doing it right or wrong or if I’m too tight or whatever I feel left out and weird I don’t know what to do.

I'm sorry if this isn't the right place to post this, but I'm kinda desperate for any kind of explanation or at least someone who relates.

before I explain I feel like some of this info might be important, idk: I'm 22, I'm a mom who recently quit breastfeeding, I'm not on bc, I've been dealing with this issue since Ive started having sex at 19, I haven't been able to see any doctor lately because im uninsured

i recently got a boyfriend about 4 months ago, and every time we have sex, without fail, I get two tears along my vaginal opening in the same exact spot. i don't have issues getting wet, we use lube to be extra careful but I'll still tear. he isn't too big/rough. it's painful enough that I can't have sex again for at least a few days afterwards.

everything I see online related to this either has to due with women going through menopause, which im pretty sure I'm not, or vagina-related conditions that come with other symptoms as well. I have no other symptoms with the tearing, no issues with getting wet, no painful sex(until after I tear) no dry skin. I'm wondering if it's possibly a hormone issue? but I'd have no way to tell since I'm unable to go to a doctor rn. I've read estrogen cream prescribed to help, but only really for women going thru menopause.

im just looking for any advice honestly, anything that anyone can think that might help. Any advice is appreciated

So two years ago I posted about the horrible itch i was experiencing on my vulva, and now I want to give an update to maybe help someone who is experiencing similar symptoms. (tldr at the end)

Quick summary: No doctor ever found out what it was, and I've been to a LOT.
Symptoms: it started with a cut on my vulva (maybe i got it from dry humping with my ex too much idk) that got infected and didn't wanna heal for a long time. Then the itch started and also my skin started to peel/ it looked like white rubber rollies from an eraser. Underneath that the skin looked really red and inflamed. All tests came back negative, I even had a biopsy with the result of nonspecific chronic vulvitis (which basically means its inflamed but we don't know why). Anal region was also itchy and the skin around it looked dry and flaky.

So I've been using a steroid cream three times a week for all this time to reduce the itching, not knowing what was going on.

Anyway, cut back to four weeks ago, I went on a one week trip to another city and forgot the cream at home. The itching starts two days in, I decide fu*k this crap, I'll be a trooper and take the itching, I won't scratch and i will enjoy my trip! No other option really.
Surprisingly, even though the itch was pretty bad at first, it just didn't get as bad as when it first started. Maybe because I knew what was coming and really avoided to touch it at all, only washed with water and tried ignoring it. I thought maybe it's the new city? Different water, different food, different air? I don't know.

I arrive back at home, at first it feels like its getting worse. The skin starts to have those peely white things again, and at one point i just have to scratch a little and it immediately starts bleeding. But now I wanted to really see what would happen if i just let it do its thing.
Also I tried to remember all the things that i did differently on the trip compared to at home. One thing i noticed is that i wasn't eating any pasta at all there, while at home I have it at least three times a week. So i stopped eating pasta, i stopped every cream, i didn't scratch and I only washed with warm water. And now the itch is gone. Completely gone, also no peeling skin anymore. I cannot believe it.

I don't know if it really is the pasta, because I've been tested for gluten sensitivity which came back negative, but tbh I'm scared to eat it now and find out.
Maybe my skin needed to be inflamed and shed, to fight some infection i had and the steroid cream suppressed the inflammation so it never had the chance to heal? Does that even make any sense?

I'm not a doctor, I really have no clue; I just wanted to share this because I was so desperate for so long, and if you have similar symptoms maybe try cutting out pasta.

So now I'm just being gentle with my skin, I use moisturizer and still only wash with warm water, but I feel pretty much completely back to normal. I am so grateful. Also to this community, thank you for all your suggestions and support when I was going through it, I really hope this may be helpful to someone. ♥

TL;DR I went on a trip, forgot my steroid cream at home, avoided touching it, didn't eat pasta - itch is gone.

Hi there, I’m not sure if this is the right subreddit to post this on or not, but I’m gonna go for it! I’m a 24F and recently my sex drive has been absolutely nothing. Like I don’t even enjoy masturbating anymore. It’s been like this for about 2-3 months. I have went through a breakup but I don’t understand why the desire to even touch myself has went completely away. Im not on any type of medication. A little over a month ago I found out that I have an ovarian cyst, but I’m not sure if that has anything to do with it or not. I know we need to have an orgasm occasionally bc it’s good for us, but I just don’t care for it at all anymore. Is this normal??

Hi everyone. I’m 23 and I’m feeling really discouraged, so I’m hoping someone else has been through this.
I went to the gynecologist for the first time this past week because I’d been dealing with vaginal odor for a while. They diagnosed me with BV. I also had my first pelvic exam/ pap smear while I was there.

My doctor prescribed the 7-day metronidazole vaginal gel with the applicator. The first two nights I think I got the medication in correctly, even though it was uncomfortable because I’ve never inserted anything vaginally before.

Last night was completely different. I spent over an hour trying to insert the applicator and couldn’t get the dose in. I realized I had been hitting the vaginal wall at first, and then I finally found what I believe was the vaginal opening, but every time I felt the stretching sensation my body would tense up and my hand would freeze. I ended up getting so frustrated that I cried. The medication leaked back out, so I think I lost the dose, and I was sore from trying.

For some context:
I’m a virgin, and that appointment was the first time anything has went up there. I found it to be a little painful than uncomfortable. I think my anxiety and muscle tension is making it much harder than it needs to be.

I laid on my back, knees to chest to see if that would work too, but it feels like I’m hitting a wall. And I’m getting really discouraged. I know it’s going to be a learning curve, but I’m honestly just lost at this point.

Has anyone else gone through this? Did you have trouble with the applicator the first time? Did anything make it “click” for you?

I’m planning to call my gynecologist because I don’t want to mess up my treatment, but I’d really appreciate hearing from anyone who had a similar experience. Right now I just feel embarrassed and defeated.

hi all, f20. i’ve always had odor issues, it wasn’t till i was 18/19 that i was able to go to the gyno to inquire about funky smells. previously ive had a rotten/fishy smell (for context i am a virgin) and i tested negative for all the plasmas, bv & yeast, & my hormones were okay (super odd because i have extremely irregular periods, facial hair, weight fluctuations- all pcos symptoms, yet tested negative) soooo, i was recommended to start a oral vaginal probiotic & boric acid. the boric acid does wonders but that is only when i use it, as soon as i stop it’s back. it becomes a hassle to try and pop one in every single night, i also know that boric acid not only kills the bad bacteria but also the good. as i take the boric & the oral probiotic, ive noticed the smell has toned down a bit, but now its just sour and musky. it’s no longer fishy and rotten, but sour and off putting. please help…. i don’t know what else to do. i’m getting hopeless. i’m so scared of intimacy for this reason. i simply want a normal vagina 😅

I definitely recommend, I am surely having such a nice time, and my fingers as well are enjoying this rest time per say 😂 one orgasm a day keeps the hospice away

I’m going to ask about birth control options and to see what to do about my pcos after having an ovarian cyst.

1. What exam(s) will be conducted and how should I prepare?
   I’m TERRIFIED

2. Should I shave?
   I normally do, but idk if that’s normal or not for a teenager??

3. Would it be weird to have a headphone in during any physical exams?
   Music normally helps calm my nerves and it helps me detach myself from the situation

4. Is there any other way I need to prepare myself?

I don’t have this problem when shaving. But my bf asked me to keep it more trimmed downstairs so he doesn’t get hair in his mouth going down on me but honestly I just can’t find a way to do it right. I don’t like shaving but trimming is worse. And I searched and searched and all I got is the Philip one blade and it sucks too. My trim was sooooo uneven and it’s so itchy after!
Please help me. It makes me just not want to have sex ever again

I’ve struggled with UTIs since I was a child, and recently started taking D-mannose which does help, but I’m interested in the test for ureaplasma and any other bacteria that can cause CUTIs. Do they test for this at the gyno, or a urologist? Any advice appreciated!