TMI Vent: Hymenal Tag as a result of giving birth

SoonToBeShafer

Last week I put a post out about a vaginal skin tag. Well, I have one and I wanted to get it removed. So I went to the doctor today, and it is a hymenal tag (still a skin tag). They can't remove it in the office. If I want it removed, it will require a surgery at the hospital, and I'll have to be put under. My hymen has also dropped. WTF that means, I don't know and WebMD isn't helping.

DH and I have not had relations since the baby because when I was finally cleared, we've both been sick with miserable colds, sinus infections, and now he has the flu. So, I don't know if sex will hurt yet. This procedure might be considered cosmetic. AHHH.

I feel like I have a broken vagina because she also noticed that an area wasn't healing well and she used some chemical to burn granual tissue (?)  to help the process and I have to go back in a week. She said that the scarring tissue that she did something to today would have made sex uncomfortable. Is this payback for a really good pregnancy? I thought God gave me a really easy pregnancy, labor and delivery because we lost our baby girl Angela last summer. I swear, when the odds say that something happens to 5% of people, that's me. I'm that 5%. My daughter had a disease that was like 1 in a F-ing 1,000,000.

I just want to cry. Everything has been so good, and then this business. Quite frankly, it's embarrassing and it's not like I can share with my friends that I have a broken Who-Ha.

Anyone else in this boat?

Sorry for sounding whiny, it's just frustrating when I feel like dumb $hit happens to me.

purplepuggles

i'm sorry you're going through all this! :-( life isn't fair sometimes

shakespearenluv

I was told at my 6-week appointment that I might be developing a tag and need to get it taken care of later on.  She used silver nitrate to help my tear form a better scab to help it heal.  It was still really sore and felt like it was reopening the tear every time I went #2.  So I went back at 8 weeks and she gave me the go ahead for sex.  I still wasn't ready and neither was DH because he had been sick.  We didn't have sex until 4 months PP.  I say don't rush it.  You not only need to BE ready but you need to FEEL ready.

I bled after our first try.  It was bad at first but got better.  However, I still bled and am still a bit sore.  I think even though it was only a 2nd degree tear, maybe it was bad.

candreco

SoonToBeShafer:

Sorry for sounding whiny, it's just frustrating when I feel like dumb $hit happens to me.

You do not sound whiny, this does not sound like dumb $hit- you've got some very valid stuff going on to be upset about.  I hope everything works out for you.

FutureMrsCaesar

Aww that sucks...you are right its NOT fair.  And 'easy' pregnany or not, no pregnancy is easy!!  I too am frustrated with how long its taking to feel back to my old self, I feel like no one tells you about this part.  Either that or no one I know has had a rough recovery.  While all of the things you describe really suck, at least they are all relatively easily corrected and not super serious.