So uncomfortable

[FTMtobe18]

8 weeks postpartum and for several weeks now the bits have felt a bit odd. Vague I know.

It almost feels like I have a water infection that really irritated feeling down/up there. I guess it could be a burning feeling but not when I pee. I drink so much water it's unreal.

I dropped a dip test off to the GP and they sent it away because it had protein + in it, and the GP left me antibiotics to collect. Confused as to why given antibiotics if there was no sign of infection, only protein.

The test came back negative so I questioned the antibiotics and the GP apparently said to continue with them as not all infections show up in the urine if it is e.g a kidney infection.

Finished the antibiotics and no improvement. My lower back across the bottom is hurting quite a bit lately, one day I couldnt stand straight. So went back to gp explained all and she examined me internally. Notice discharge but I put this down to ewcm. Took some swabs abs sent them off. They came back normal.

Skip forwards to thursday just gone, I had a check up with LO at the gp routine. He examined me down there and didn't notice anything. Gave me some amatryptaline to take at night and if no improvement he would refer me to a specialist. I said to him about reading up on both vulvadynia and the pudendal nerve, which both sound like it could be it.

Day after seeing him I started to bleed (heavily) for 3 days and now I'm just left with the drips and drabs. So worried as I have PCOS so didn't have periods before, so how can I be sure this was a period? The last week my bits haven't felt too bad however today I am, so Irritated and I'm not sure if it's across the clitoris vulva area in general or inside.

I know when I have been wiping (from front to back) that when I get to opening I have pressed the tissue in as to see what comes away I guess. So could I gave irritated up there?

I find myself really worrying especially after birth of 2nd LO

Can anyone relate or offer info/advice?

Anyone?

Sometimes pregnancy resets your hormones, so if you did not have periods before you get them, sometimes period become heavy. So maybe what you had was just a period. As for the burning the doctor has already given you antibiotics and since you noticed no change so it is not bacterial. Amitriptyline did not help so not phycological either. Has it become worst after taking antibiotics? If yes then it could be fungal. Talk to your GP again.

No not become worse just no improvement. Its so odd as sometimes it feels up inside and other times it's over the vulva area so clitoris /hood.

We have had sex only twice in over 2 months and both times no pain or bleeding.

Yesterday it felt okish and whilst I was on a period of that's what it was I didn't notice it.

May be it is caused by a dip in estrogen. Vulva pain is a symptom of low estrogen. Once period starts estrogen starts picking up too therefore pain gets less noticeable. Low estrogen is quite common after delivery- that is why so many of us suffer from falling hair and baby blues. If that is the reason then within few weeks your body will be on its natural course of estrogen production and the pain will vanish on its own.

I find myself sick with worry. I really do feel like I'm burning down there or up there should I say. I feel like it's burning inside. Sometimes it's hard to tell if it's the vulva in general or up inside.

It's really getting to me, and I'm worried about contacting the gp yet again (it's all I seem to do) but I know something isn't right. It's now been over a month like this and it's getting worse from feeling like a uti to now a burning feeling

I know this is an old post. But what happened? Did you recover?