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AIBU to ask you all to diagnose me? (please)

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NonsenseNamePlease · 06/02/2012 20:42

Blush.
I'm not a name changer, just a lurker that has finally registered (hi).

I have these lump type things in my vagina, sort of at the very entrance and extending as far back as I can feel. I don't know if they suddenly appeared or if they've always been there, but I only noticed them a few years ago.
They're not painful unless pressed/brushed against iykwim, and then it's just...uncomfortable, I think?

I only really began to worry when I noticed a pink fleshy ball sort of thing dangling out of my vagina (when doing the mirror-pee-test (that was on a thread AGES ago)) and then I quickly got dressed and pretended it didn't happen Blush and hoped it went away. It did, but I KNOW it's still there. It was sort of on a fleshy string. I think. Blush.

If I lie on my stomach the bally things go hard like muscle that's being flexed.
Do any of you have ANY idea what this could possibly be? I've been googling on and off for the months since that mirror-pee test, and recently panicked myself into a frenzy at the sight of 'vaginal cancer' and can't bring myself to google anymore. I'm slightly weepy and terrified lol.
I promise I'm not trolling, please help?

OP posts:
bumbums · 06/02/2012 20:45

Get to the doctor. This worrying about what you don't know will and is drriving you nuts! Better to know the truth, however scary it might be. Chances are it'll be nothing sinister.

Kayano · 06/02/2012 20:47

It's not Lupus Grin

ballbreaker · 06/02/2012 20:50

Vaginal prolapse? Look on the channel 4 embarrassing bodies website-good accurate pictures but as bumbums said-go to the GP.

SecretMinceRinser · 06/02/2012 20:51

Genital warts? Vaginal prolapse?

ScrumpyJ · 06/02/2012 20:51

Sounds like sebaceous cysts, but definitely a visit to GP required.

bubbles1112 · 06/02/2012 20:54

Go to the doctor! Nobody like strangers looking at their lou lou much but better die of embarassment than die of something else Smile
I'm sure you'll be ok.

Original poster
NonsenseNamePlease · 06/02/2012 21:12

:o at lou lou. I don't want to go to the doctor, I'd cry before I could start talking. I'd howl my way through it Blush.

I don't think it's a prolapse, that's the first thing I came across. But I haven't had a baby, and there are so many different types of prolapses, how would I know which one I needed to look at? Confused

Cysts in there Shock. They're not under the skin, they sort of ARE skin, iykwim? Like fleshy, separate entities. Can that happen? o.0

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bubbles1112 · 06/02/2012 21:15

It could be piles! You can get them there. It could be a lot of things but the only person who will be able to tell you is a doctor or nurse. How old are you? Have you never had a smear?
Please go!

LaBoccaDellaVerita · 06/02/2012 21:17
Grin

Get to the quack OP. For fuck's sake get to the quack!

Olivetti · 06/02/2012 21:20

Just go!! I wasted ages worried sick about something, finally ended up in A and E having diagnosed myself with a brain tumour or MS, turned out to be a pretty annoying, but common, eye condition that I had never even heard of - nowt serious. But all that time wasted!

lifeistooshort · 06/02/2012 21:22

could it be fibroids or cysts?

campariandlemonade · 06/02/2012 21:22

Hi there,

You might be better off going to your local GUM clinic....I used to work in one and the drs there have seen sooo many different things like this and are likely to be more able to advise you straight away as to what they are/might be than your GP if it's something unusual. They can also do a zillion tests there and then in one go that your GP isn't able to do and doesn't have the equipment for. Also they are looking at bits and bobs all day long and are used to women/men crying inconsolably all the time so you might feel more comfortable going there. If you are in the South East I can recommend an amazing NHS dr who could see you . PM me if you like

ZuzuBailey · 06/02/2012 21:23

You could make an appointment with the practice nurse if you don't want to see the doctor.

Could they be Bartholin's cysts?

jennifer86 · 06/02/2012 21:23

Maybe skin tags?

Let us know what the GP says. :)

ScrumpyJ · 06/02/2012 21:24

Shaving and/ or waxing can cause cysts as they grow around the hair follicle

Clicky
www.patient.co.uk/doctor/Sebaceous-(Epidermoid)-Cysts.htm

TittyBojangles · 06/02/2012 21:32

Sounds like polyps. Agree with others that your need to get them checked out. If they have been there for years with no changes then unlikely to be anything sinister, but you MUST get them looked at, but you know this already.

Original poster
NonsenseNamePlease · 06/02/2012 21:41

Bubbles, I'm 18, and no, never had a smear :o thank god.

Ooh Bartholin's cysts look the closest thing I've seen to it yet, thank you v much, Zuzu :)

I'll make an appointment with the GP now Blush.

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Idocrazythings · 06/02/2012 21:41

Write it down on a piece of paper and give it to the Doctor then you don't have to tell them.

You've already asked "Dr Google" and just made yourself feel worse!. Are you scared to go because you don't want to show them, or because of what might be wrong? If it's because you just don't want to show them, then I'll tell you (and everyone else) my embarrassing Dr story, I accidentally swallowed my engagement ring in my sleep! and had to go to the Dr, then I had to get an X-ray. I got a few funny looks and was hideously embarrassed, and my husband now sometimes refers to me as "frodo" (from lord of the rings). Oh, also I had to tell work why I needed a day off-due to the copious amounts of laxatives that were required!; Seriously though, you can do it and your Dr will be nothing but respectful to you as it is a serious, sensitive matter.

bigeyes · 06/02/2012 21:49

So what if someone on here accurately diagnoses you, how would you know they were accurate anyway?

Assume you did get a diagnosis, what ever it is needs treating so you would still have to go to doctors or gum clinic.

Make an appointment ask for female nurse doctor, tell them to let the person you see you are very nervous etc, they are used to dealing with embarrassment and defi ately will have seen it before.

You have no option, get used to idea, start with a phone call.

bigeyes · 06/02/2012 21:51

V glad to see you are making an appointment.

RevoltingPeasant · 06/02/2012 21:52

OP I was all set to come on here and say THE PLAGUE but that would be childish and unhelpful

So, go to the GP! Look, I had an itchy spot in my bum - yes not on but IN, how's that for sharing. I left it for over a year because I was so embarrassed - and it turned out to be a mild reaction to soap which they cured with a cream.

Just go, they will sort it. Honest.

Rhinestone · 06/02/2012 23:33

Glad you're making an appointment but PLEASE make sure you turn up.

Write it down if that's easier or just say, "There's something wrong with my vagina, I'm really uncomfortable telling you the details but please could you examine me."

They are professionals, this is what they're paid to do.

my2centsis · 07/02/2012 05:38

Good luck OP

SpiceWeasel · 07/02/2012 06:20

Yes, get to a doctor. You'd have to have someone look there anyway when you have your next pap smear... wouldn't you?

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