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mysterious vaginal sores??
21/F..So last weekend I had whati thought was the flu. I had a 104 degree fever, bad chest and nasal congestion, dizziness and some nausea. Lasted about 3 days. When it started I noticed some sores in my vagina, in the vulva, rihht around the opening of my vagina. That's the only place they were and there we maybe 4 or 5 of them. They looked like canker sores in your mouth do. I was worried I might have an std so I went to the doctor, they did a culture on the sores and a blood test but they didn't find anything. I have had the same one partner for 5 years now and haven't had sores before having the flu last week.it took about a week for the sores to heal up. So my question is what else could that have been?? I looked online and couldn't find anything like it other than herpes, but I was tested for that and it was negative.
Any advice would be helpful, thanks!
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Since you mentioned the fever, I went to check the term 'fever blisters' to see what it was and if its related. I discovered it couldn't be fever blisters since those are actually Herpes 1 which occur only on the outside of the lips or near them. My mom had them all the time. There is some research going on to prove whether children can inherit in in their genes from a parent at conception and although more tests will continue, in 2008 the tests showed that indeed HHV-6 as they labeled it can reside in a child. They may never have an outbreak but it makes them more susceptible. Great stress to the body mentally, emotionally or physically to the immune system can trigger an outbreak if the person carried a form of the herpes virus, no matter how it was contracted.
Your partner may in effect be a carrier but have never had an outbreak and may never in his life ever have one. Since my mom had HV 1, it was already in my DNA. It wasn't until I got divorced and wanted to date that I got a test before for STD's and came out clear. After clearing the test, I had an outbreak, my first HV2. I was super stressed about having to move for the umpteenth time with no longer than 6-7 months in each location. I waited until ins. kicked in at my job and went to dr. and asked them to screen for stds. I asked if the herpes test is included. They said no, a general STD testing will not show herpes. They have to specifically set aside samples to test differently to check for herpes. Usually it isn't offered because not only are the majority of the population carriers nows so its a mute point, but it is also a more expensive test. So it has to be specifically asked for. Well isn't that a nice thing to know. My test came back positive.
So if I were you, I would ask my Dr. exactly what STD's they checked me for and if they specifically tested me for herpes.
Since you say they looked like canker sores, thats the final stage, after a blister popped open and now the healing process begins. Since canker sores occur only inside the mouth and cannot be passed by contact, it is not a canker sore. So it is either herpes, which they didn't catch cus the lab test was faulty or they never tested for it in the first place.
If it is Herpes, it's not surprising that it coincided with the stress to your immune system with the illness and resulting fever your body was fighting. Once my initial outbreak was triggered, I have continued to get them. So far only about once every 6 to 9 months so thats not too bad and usually one or two tiny blisters. It starts as a tingling sensation first in the nerve endings so the skin surface in a particular area may feel chaffed by your clothing when it is just a warning that an outbreak is about to start. Then you feel soreness as a blister forms but its most painful after it breaks. Thankfully I have high pain tolerance but Drs do have medication they can offer to help with the symptoms.
One way to tell you may need to be retested is if you have an outbreak like this again. Or don't wait until then, just ask to be tested again. You don't have to have an outbreak at the time to be tested for it. If its not herpes and it occurs again, it could be some new rare skin problem that hasn't been discovered and named yet and you may need to see lots of specialists before someone discovers what is going on and how to treat it. Don't suffer in silence if you do get it again. See the doctors and make them work to earn their living.
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