Advice on dry downstairs areas causing itchy during pregnancy

[Melanie30513]

Hi all, wondering if anyone has been through similar...

So I am 15 weeks pregnant. During my 1st trimester the skin around my vagina (not in) was very itchy and got really sore. This extended to my bum area as well. Since then this has calmed down and mainly healed. It got quite sore and dry at one area where the skin seemed to actually break. I have managed to heal this by applying Sudocreme 3 times a day and making sure I’m not directly scrubbing irritating soaps into my area.

The thing is, the itch isn’t bad now, but I do notice when I don’t put sudocreme on, I guess as a general ‘moisturiser’, it does start to get irritated again. I have read your area can get quite dry during pregnancy because of all the fluctuating hormones, but has anyone else had this? I can only assume I am dry down there (which I don’t particularly feel ‘dry’) and without the sudocreme, it’s becoming irritated and itchy because of my hormones? This is the skin surrounding my vagina and not inside, plus extends to my bum sometimes.

Anyone going through similar?

Are you sure it's not thrush? I suffer from recurrent bouts of thrush when I'm pregnant and it feels just as you describe :(

Also had recurrent thrush whilst pregnant. It's miserable, I sympathise. Check with GP perhaps?

Thanks for commenting guys, but no it doesn’t seem to be thrush. I’ve had it once before and during this there is no itching in the vagina or outer lips, it’s more the sides area like the outside skin sort of near the perinium and the crease where the skin connects to your leg. So definitely nowhere near inside. And tmi but any mucus is normal and not like the standard characteristics of thrush

I think I had varicose veins in that area during my pregnancies. Mainly on a night I would get really itchy, it would swell and also feel hot. Then usually fine by the next day. Would be worse if I was on my feet a lot during the day.