My vagina stinks

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I can't live with it anymore, it smells horrible even 2 minutes after showering. I don't use soap down there and I don't have an STI. I have been treated for thrush and no change.

It's worse in the hot weather but I'm feeling self conscious all the time. I can smell it when I'm sitting down on the sofa. People say it's normal to have an odour but when does it become abnormal?

I can't even describe the smell - it isn't fishy but it's unpleasant

Inside your inner labia? No I definitely would not use soap in there that's the entrance to the vagina.

This is what I’ve always took ‘not washing inside your vagina with soap’ to mean - because obviously people generally say vagina instead of vulva.
I didn’t think it was a necessary warning to not stick your soapy fingers up your fanny - do people generally try and do that? How would you rise?? To me that’s like giving out a warning saying it’s not necessary to stick your soapy fingers up your anus - which presumably would be much dirtier than your vagina... but presumably people don’t think to do that. Or do they?? Who knows, this thread has been quite illuminating

Anyway let’s say - if pubes can grow there clean it, if not leave that bit alone.

• rinse, not rise

And if you shave, still clean there with something stronger than water.

scrubs with soap down to my knees

*clean with soap - obviously you want to clean with water, not just leave it completely I’ll leave it there now...

Yes I've definitely been treated to the stench of a musky/clammy fanny when using a public loo.

Does that mean it smells of clams and not sea shells?!

The smell is probably old semen too, that reeks

I'm gobsmacked at the person who said they can smell their vagina when they sit down, that's not normal and they should get checked out. I always use body wash around my vagina and bottom and never had problems. The only time I had thrush was when I was pregnant. Vaginas smelling meaty or sea shells is very odd.

I can't understand how people leave or forget tampon in their vagina.

1. Don't you feel them in there? 2) Don't you have the little string dangling outside your vagina in your underwear... where you can see it....when you wee, wash, etc? 3) Don't you wipe after you pee? 4) Don't you change your underwear 5) Just really??

This is why public hair helps

In what way? Does the general public’s hair smell better than your own- what do you do with it, take donations?

I’ve never left one there but I certainly don’t feel it once it’s in properly

The strings should usually give it away though

In that case I definitely choose Midnight Jasmine.

Sadly you can't pick, and none are pleasant unless you are among those that enjoy meaty/musky.

Call your doctor. The NHS is still available to treat everyday ailments..

I can't understand how people leave or forget tampon in their vagina.

1) Don't you feel them in there?

Have you not seen the new tampax add?? you’re not supposed to feel it, get it up there girls!!

This thread is a modern classic. Kudos to all who have participated.

For those saying left tampon

That could of only been a week or so

Any longer and she's of probably gone into toxic shock. It doesn't take very long at all.

True, sometimes you don't feel the tampon especially when the flow is still heavy(ish) but I wonder at what point some people start forgetting to change their tampon regularly ( the last days probably?) and forgetting they've got something lodged in their vagina for days and weeks? Does the whole thing, string and all, get sucked inside for them to not even see it while 'interacting' with their pubic area (weeing, washing, etc) daily?

Mind boggled.

I'm shocked people wash their vaginas with body wash and all the other crap

You need water! That's it

Our vagina has its own cleaning system. Very much like our ear.

It has certain bacteria and flora that if you use soap and femfresh. You'll take that away. Cause all sorts

Water people. That's it.

@Hoggleludo has anyone actually said they wash their vagina with soap or body wash?

Hoggle YES! Your VAGINA is self cleaning, Your VULVA is not. Wash properly FGS.

It isn't the vagina (hole inside) that's washed with soap, it's the vulva (the outer area) and surrounding areas. Suds get there while showering anyway so one might as well do a proper wash.

Bubble bath liquid/Soapy water gets inside the vagina during baths too actually.

Always best to rinse out afterwards.

OMG not ears now too! Do people not wash their ears (not rammed inside the hole obv) with soap either?! Have I been wasting soap on my auditory vulvas all this time?

Always best to rinse out afterwards

What? Rinse out your vagina? What?

Oh dear lord....not wash with soap. Rinse with water from shower head after a bath especially (because you HAVE got your lovely bubble bath soap residue in there) or feel free to leave it to self clean.

Or is water bad for the vagina too? Because it's self cleaning doesn't mean water must not touch it.

@AndMyHairWillShineLikeTheSea

Yup!