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Boil/pimple around my genitals
I’m a 13 year old and this like pimple thing appeared on the side of my vagina, I didn’t know it was there until I had accidentally popped it. Some pus stuff came out when it was popped and it’s hurt more and more ever since, no bleeding though. This has been going on for 2 days and I’m embarrassed to tell my parents, do I leave it on its own or tell my parents?
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It was most likely nothing more than an ingrown hair and as those sometimes do, got infected. If there is no more pus, it should heal on its own.
If you have lots of bumps down there, it could be something more. The reason it hurts is that the blister popped so there is a bit of area with no skin covering where the nerve endings are. So every little touch will hurt. I have herpes and thats what I know from that, it will hurt but the skin grows over it again in a week, enough so that it shouldn't hurt.
It is hard to keep that area dry since the body is always in the cleaning mode, your bodys own way of clearing out unwanted debris by the sticky stuff that sticks to panties. I don't know if it will help but if you have a dress, sundress, skirt, maybe wear that when you can without panties on and if you can, in your room or where ever you have privacy, sit for a while, maybe reading or whatever, and don't wear panties and sit with legs spaced apart so that air can get to the area to help dry it off.
If in the future, you have an area like this, without pus and the blister or blisters break open, then it could be herpes. And yes, apparently a person can get it without having had sex.
My mom had what she called cold sores that broke out from time to time. I didn't know as a kid, but I do now, that she had oral herpes. Oral herpes can be transfered to your private area via your hand like next time you go wipe in the bathroom. This is the type of herpes i have but only on the vaginal lips. The way Herpes is transferred is that most people who are carriers and have it, don't even know it. It usually takes some stressful event to get the sleeping virus to crawl up the nerves to the surface of the skin where they sit for a while before the actual painful breakout occurs. This is the time no one engages in sex or kissing because it is too painful. Only in the beginning when it sits on the skin. So if Mom kissed her kids and the germs for herpes were on our cheek and we wiped the spot cus it felt like a wet sloppy kiss then its good chance we transfered it just that one time when we went shortly after the kiss to potty and got the germs to come into contact with skin that its a way to get it. I am explaining now so in case anything like this happens to you in the future, you will know and can tell your Mom so that the whole family can get tested. They can transfer the virus without ever having had an outbreak, so there should be no blame to you if you have not had sex yet with a partner. Many people think you can catch it cus from sex. Whats the chance that all siblings have it. In my family, thats how it goes, and why I believe it can happen. When I asked for a herpes screening test, I had never had an outbreak but found out I was a carrier, and my husband didn't have it. So thats why I believe it can happen that way, rare but not so rare if all us kids got it. Now after all that info on herpes, I don't believe it was a herpes outbreak. However, if in the future, a sore shows up in the same spot, then it likely it and pus you saw was from something else. Then tell your Mom, the family should be tested and depending on how uncomfortable it is, Drs. can prescribe something to deal with the pain but there is no cure.
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