'It took months to see a doctor because I didn’t associate achy skin on my thighs and butt and tingling in my vulva with herpes.'
and my vulva didn’t look like something out of a horror movie. Instead, it took months to see a doctor because I didn’t associate achy skin on my thighs and butt and tingling in my vulva with herpes.
After receiving answers about what was going on below my belt, I started to get to know and understand my symptoms. I also began to notice something weird: almost every month during my period, I would have an outbreak. It would start with prodromal symptoms, which are the symptoms you get before an outbreak. In my case, it was the tingling in my vulva a few days before my period began.
Janie, 23, was diagnosed with herpes when she was 19. “Typically I just get really itchy and raw [during my period],” she says. “If I have a full on outbreak with sores, it doesn't start until I've stopped bleeding. Tampons seem to make the itching and rawness worse, so I'm looking into a cup.” Janie isn’t the only one who notices that tampons seem to make her symptoms worse.
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