Im Pauline im 27 it all started with me at 19 i was pregnant i woke up with a small hot red lump and felt like i had the flu i went to the hospital and they said they thought i had herpes, i have only had two sexual partners who i knew were clean i was tested for every sexual disease going and they all came back negative. About a week later both sides of my labia had swelled so much i coulden't walk i was hospitalized i saw a doctor who thought i had a tropical disease but i had never been abroad before at this time, i was told numerous times it was an abcess but everytime i saw the registrar for surgery they said it was lymphodema. I have never had anything like this before pregnancy, i found it very hard to sleep and the only relief i got was from sitting in a warm bath eventually about three weeks later after being bed bound and having wafrin to thin my blood it burst i have never felt such relief but the smell was terrible it oozed yellow goo and pus. Swabs were taken but nothing has ever been said to me about them. When i was about 33 weeks gone the swelling returned an i had my little boy by c- section i thought my problem would go away but it kept coming back but only one side of the vagina. I have been sent the hospital many times i just get sent home with anti-biotics i feel so helpless im not getting any help im depressed. I went to see a new doctor the other day at my surgery as yes my swelling was back i've had at least 20, he said i do have lymphodema in the outer labia but somthing is causing it either a blockage in the lymphatic system or an infection in a pocket in my groin. He said it looked like a bartholins cyst and after looking at pictures and reading up i am convinced it is! i am going to see a specialist at the gyno ward at my hospital next month
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