A little over a month ago, I realized that one of my labia minora had stretched to a little over a centimeter (there was a tiny nodule INSIDE the tip of the labia minora as well). I've always had small labia that "stayed hidden." I went to a clinic the next day and the doctor said it was a cyst ("not cancer") and to sit in a hot bath. He said if it hadn't gone away in 10 days, he would give me antiobiotics (that failing, I'd have to have it cut out). It was there 10 days later so I went back but got a different doctor. SHE told me that I looked completely normal down there (aside from the fact that it had suddenly stretched overnight).
It's still there one month later and because it sort of protrudes from the labia majora, it gets sore sometimes. I don't know if it's a cyst because it doesn't look like a pimple or anything, just stretchy skin. The tiny lump could be a lymph node? Could my skin have just stretched? From constant friction/irritation maybe?
P.S. I'm 21 and a virgin.
2006-10-20 15:35:59 · 4 answers · asked by Nanoka 1 in Health ➔ Women's Health
Is it possible for a Bartholin cyst to stretch skin out permanently (especially since it's been over a month)? Because it literally looks as though it's just a long labia (and the 2nd doctor said it was normal for a girl to have long labia, which I know now to be true, but to suddenly have a labia just... get longer like I'd put weights on it)...
2006-10-20 15:44:31 · update #1
The skin on my labia minora looks long, purplish, and wrinkly (stretched, I suppose) with a tiiiiiny little nodule at the tip, not firm and rounded like one might expect from a cyst (my dog had one for a year on her back and it just looked like a big pimple).
2006-10-20 23:00:59 · update #2
Sounds like a Bartholin Cyst in the making.
This is merely a plugged oil gland that we have in our labia.
It may not look like a pimple yet but if it is a true Bartholin Cyst is will eventually come to it's maturity at which time you will probably have to have it surgically dealt with which is really a very minor procedure which heals very quickly esp with those sitz baths.
Good Luck
2006-10-20 15:50:56 · answer #1 · answered by Just Q 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know but it sure sounds like a cyst to me. Maybe you could try getting a 'third opinion' from another female doctor and see what she has to say about it.
2006-10-20 15:48:01 · answer #2 · answered by mynameisdennis 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds like a bartholin cyst. no biggy
http://www.webmd.com/hw/womens_conditions/tw2711.asp
and congrats on being a virgin!
2006-10-20 15:40:03 · answer #3 · answered by grapelady911 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it could b a pimple you can get them there but you have to just ask her has this happened to her at least she if any one needs to no and if your not sexually active then there is nun to b ashamed of.
2016-05-22 06:30:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋