Vaginal Fissures...cuts?? What Is This?

I'm still fissure free... I'm telling you, the sweet almond oil worked a miracle for me. I've even used it on my dry skin throughout the winter. Mostly, though, it's taken away all itching, pain, and cracking. Give it a shot! It's cheap and it worked miracles for me.

Good luck!

When I was about 14 I had this, I was so worried, I thought i'd caught an STD (I was sleeping with my first boyfriend at the time) I confided in my best friend and, bizarrly, she had exactly the same thing.

I later discovered it can literally just occur as a result of hormone imbalance, clears up on its own, and is basically nothing to worry about.

I have the same problem. Started as painful intercourse with swelling immediately after. What I thought was a "scrape" ended up being a fisure according to my gyno. He prescribed a steroid cream that has helped somewhat but also advised that I have thin skinned labia that easily tears. I go back in 3 weeks for further evaluation and possible testosterone cream prescription. After some research, evidently this could be caused by my thyroid disease, early onset of menopause, or some other unknown reason. I think I'll try the almond oil also as my gyno suggested baby oil patted dry to help.

i have one like a paper cut almost but i dont wont to go to the doctor or anything like that is there anything i can do or get that can help it on its own?

please help me

Just wait and be patient, it should go away on its own.

Ya so i have the same thing as you guys are talking about. I just went to my gyno and she immediately told me i have herpes... I am going tomorrow to my old doctors office to see what all std tests i have had done already... and if i wasn't tested for that them i am going to be... i'm very scaried and feel very lost... i'm in a serious relationship right now and i have already talked to my boyfriend about wat was going on... he is being very supportive and luckily he is my bestfriend... but i'm so so scaried that if i do have herpes and me and him break up someday i'm going to have to tell my future partners that i have this... i know if someone told me this and i didn't have it i would be very hesitate to want to sleep with them... i'm freaking out guys... i will keep u posted after i get my test done....

Well, herpes happens. It's far from the worst disease you could catch. Just relax. Any future partners, if they're truly loving, won't care.

Herpes causes an outbreak of blisters and sores that slowly fade over about a month. Secondary outbreaks occur normally soon after, and subsequent outbreaks even less often.

There is even medicine you can take to help prevent the spread of genital herpes You've seen the commercial,

Partner 1: "I have genital herpes."
Partner 2: "And I don't."
Partner 1: "We want to keep it that way, so I take [medicine]."

The worst complication comes with pregnancy. If you have an outbreak when you're due to give birth, they require you to get a c-section to prevent transmission to the baby.

I'm just very scaried... and like i look at the pictures of herpes and i really don't think it looks anything like what i have at all... they just look like little paper cuts... i have even had my boyfriend look at them and he says that they just look like friction marks or irritation... he doesn't think they look like any of the pictures... i'm just very upset with my doctor because even if it is herpes i don't think they should tell u that without being sure... but i am almost positive i'm going to get the blood test done this week but if it does come back positive i'm going to be a mess....

I don't think you have it anyway, so don't worry.

Ok so I do not have herpes I got my results and i'm definately negative for both simplex one and two... yay... i'm very happy about that...

Hi ladies,

I'm so glad I found this, because I have been getting increasingly worried, and now I'm pretty sure it's a yeast infection from all the responses. I just wanted to say -- heard of "nutritional healing"? Yeast infections are often caused by Candida, or an allergy to products that contain yeast and sugar. The best way to cure this is to STOP INGESTING ANY SUGAR. This is the hardest thing to do in the USA, where every food item seems to have sugar in it. Even fruits, especially dried fruits which are more concentrated, and even some sweeter veggies like carrots and potatoes are not recommended for the Candida diet. Look it up and see if it might be a good answer... it requires a lot of effort to prepare your food, but it'll basically eliminate what the yeast infection is living off of, and thus kill it.

Hope it helps...

http://www.ca ndidasupport.org/compare_candida_products. html?gclid=CNm3wceX3pICFRciFQodqSIF-Q

This site was helpful to me. Please take a look.

So some of you mentioned getting these symptoms after taking antibiotics. This is due to the fact that the antibiotics kill ALL the bacteria in your body, including PROBIOTICS, which some of you may have heard of. They are the "good" healthy bacteria that we always need to have in our intestines, which are responsible for maintaining a healthy immune system among other things. When they are killed, any bacteria (SUCH AS CANDIDA) are allowed to run rampant and grow and grow beyond control.

Taking probiotic supplements may help, but often the probiotics in these supplements are not fully alive, and they need to be live to do anything effective. Make sure the bottle is refrigerated and ask someone to help where it is sold, to find the best kind. Health-food-stores are a good source of alternative information.

I had this SAME problem for 2 years. My OB/GYN thought that it was a yeast infection; however, the tests always came back negative and the medications (OTC and prescribed) never helped. They tested for Herpes 1 and 2 and both came back negative. I have been tested for everything from HIV to diabetes to explain these symptoms, and nothing came back positive. I discovered this site and somebody mentioned dry/sensitive skin, which I have everywhere else. I looked around my local grocery story and discovered a fantastic product by Monistat called Chafing Relief Powder-Gel. I have used this twice a day since (once in the evening and once in the morning after my shower) and my fissures are completely gone! FINALLY! After 2 years! This stuff is amazing. It can be found with the rest of the yeast infection treatments, though it does not treat a yeast infection, so if this is what you really have, it will not help until the infection is gone. It is an ointment that dries as a powder, so no mess or stains to worry about later. Try it! I found this at Target. I hope this helps!!!

OK girls, I have news for you!
I have suffered from vaginal dryness, itching, and yes the small paper cut like
fissures. 15 freaking years of thinking I have yeast, and being told I must be crazy, finally to learn the truth, by a doctor who took the time.
My diagnoses is LICHEN SCLEROSUS. It is a very common major skin disease. It has nothing to do with STD's, and must be controlled with steriod creams.
It is an inflammatory condition that casues the skin to tighten, which is why many of us have the usual discomfort of sex.
I always seem to be extra irratated when I ovualate, and before my period.
To the best of my experience this far, a betamethasone cream with canesten has worked the best. It must be prescribed.
If you notice ANY white areas, or small white spots around the vaginal or anal area, please have your doctor biopsy the skin for lichen sclerosis. There is no cure, it must be managed, but at least you will have your answer.
Oh and for the very sad record, most doctors ahve never even heard of this.

Hello ladies I am 34 and have suffered from these lesions every time around my period as well. They hurt and are just like paper cuts. I have watched your forum for awhile now because it was nice to know I wasn't alone but I wish this on know one thats for sure!! I have found something that has stopped the lesions for me. I have been suffering from these small cuts for over 14 years. I have been tested like you all many times and all came back negative. For the last 8 months I have been taking Lysine 1000mg twice a day now and the lesions have seemed to stop I haven't had a break out since I started taking them. I have done some research on this dietary supplement and it helps treat things such as cold sores and other kinds of lesions. So I just wanted to let you know for you can try it as well. My Doctor suggested the vitamin but make sure you don't get the synthetic Lysine for it isn't as effective. I get mine through GNC. But I thought I would let you know for if you were and are like me you would almost try anything for those painful things to stop. So if it helps anyone out there I am glad and I pray it does ......Angela

I was told that the cuts are actually a yeast infection. A friend of mine has a rather obese baby. He gets yeast infections in the fat rolls on his legs and they produces cut like wounds. When I got the same cuts on my inner labia, I called her to ask what she uses for her baby. She was given a mixture from the doctor that is easy to mix at home and WOW it did the trick. So for you ladies that are out there suffering, try this:
- Get the 7 day Monistat treatment that comes with a tube of Monistat Cream and a refillable tube. You’ll only need the Cream.
- Maylox (Not Flavored) or Phillips Milk of Magnesia (Not Flavored)
- Hydrocortisone .05 % Cream
- Desitin Diaper Rash Cream
- You’ll also need a sealable container. I used one of the small disposable Ziploc Tupperware containers.

You'll want to mix equal parts of all the ingredients. I used a 1/2 tablespoon of each ingredient and it was enough to last about three days. Apply after bathroom visit and you will be feeling better in no time.

I have had the same problem for over a year now.. some story many have told.. tested for Herpes through a culture of the fissure and blood test, tested for yeast infection.. negative on all counts..
so, I experimented on my own and took myself off my birth control pill ( I was taking Allese, then Ortho Tri Cyclen Lo, then Loestrin FE) and have not had one cut since stopping the pill... it's been about 3 months. I'm going to try some other type of birth control like the patch or ring.
I've been reading this forum the entire time I've had this problem and I thought I'd let you know what worked for me.
Good Luck to all of you..

Hey everyone!
I found something that has worked PERMANENTLY for me, maybe it will be able to help some of you!

I've been having this same problem for a while... small cuts on my vagina that seem to heal sometimes but always end up coming back. They hurt a lot and I had been living with them for almost four years. I worried it was herpes, rough sex, etc.... all that stuff, but its not! or at least for me it wasn't...

My doctor said that I had a yeast infection that had spread to the skin. I had no symptoms of a yeast infection whatsoever, so I was surprised to hear this. She prescribed "Clotrimazole and Betamethasone Dipropionate" cream. It is some kind of anti-fungal cream with a small amount of steroids in it. You are supposed to use it twice a day for two weeks. After the fourth or fifth day, my symptoms were COMPLETELY gone, and they have not come back at all for 6 months! This is a HUGE relief, as I'm sure all of you can understand, because this has been bothering me for quite some time now. So if your doctors and gynecologists haven't suggested it yet, write down the name of that cream and run it by them, it worked for me and I couldn't be more pleased! Best of all, you don't have to use it long term, you only have to use it for two weeks!

Good luck to all of you
Hope this helps!