r/WomenHealthCare

okay so saturday i was feeling itchy and sunday it got worse. i went to medical on monday and i was told it was a yeast infection, they took test and it came back as that. Around wednesday morning i started feeling a bit swollen and some pimples and it would burn slightly when i would pee, later that night i couldn’t resist and scratched for a good 2 minutes and then thursday till now its been unbearable. very swollen down there and so MANY pimples , like lesions. i went to medical again in the morning and they told me it could be herpes so they took a test. i’m just want to know if anyone has every had an experience like this. this is my first yeast infection so idk if i do have a yeast or herpes 🥹
i got monistat 3 to help!!

I have had painless periods throughout teenage and early adulthood but just as I turned 26, i suddenly experienced excruciating pain in lower abdomen during menses, pain occurring once every 3-4 months, the gap began to shorten as i grew older until it became every month.
My periods cycle was always right on time , 5 days bleeding, every month. No one else in my family suffers from this, i wasn’t on any other medication before this began. So this has left me wondering how did it happen to me, was it some external trigger or is it some gene that we are born with which causes this ? My mom says that it is because of “packet food” and chemicals in our food. I wonder if her hypothesis holds any truth and is there any scientific study that has linked endometriosis with exposure to chemicals/ external influences?