I am desperately hoping someone on here has some advice for a very embarrassing problem. Every since I had my little girl (natural delivery, 2nd degree tear) I have had horrendous itching down below. It is anal rather than vaginal, but affects the perineum. I don't have worms and I don't have a fungal infection. (I have had it swabbed. ) I desperately hoped it would 'just go away' but it didn't. After three months I saw a doctor, who couldn't see anything wrong. The misery continued and finally I plucked up courage to see a doctor again. Unfortunately she was very junior and very dismissive - kept going on about worms/thrush etc which I know isn't the problem and made me all the more miserable.
I can see tiny cracks in my perineum that sting sometimes; but they're not at all obvious, which is why the doctor probably couldn't see them. This problem is really beginning to ruin my life. I live in fear of the itching, which comes and goes, but is mostly there. There is no possibility of a sex life as I am terrified it will make the itching flare up. I have tried fucidin and other hydrocortisone creams, all to no avail. When my tear was stitched up, it was done by a very newly qualified nurse who took well over an hour and had to call for help. I can't help wondering if I was somehow stitched up too tight, and that has pulled the skin around my perineum. The junior doctor I saw dismissed this possibility. What can I do? I'm really really desperate.Â
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satinandsilk · 29/09/2011 09:25
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