Paranoid...advice please?
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| Wed, 10-22-2003 - 5:33pm |
I have really dark, thick hair, and so when my boyfriend asked me to shave for him, I used a depilatory cream (Surgi-Cream for Bikini and Leg Area) to rid myself of most of the hair before shaving the rest...I don't know if that has anything to do with this problem, if I might've burned the skin, or if I might have a serious condition...
I've had persistent yeast infections since I was 16 (I'm 18 now) and lately I've been itching more than usual. About a week ago, I noticed that there seemed to be quite a bit of dead skin sloughing off on the softer, inner folds of the vaginal area, and thought nothing of it, but now I've got a bigger problem. All of the thicker outer skin is peeling off in these annoying flakes that seem to surround each shaft of hair! Flaking, peeling, whatever you want to say about it, it's dead, white skin, and a lot of it. Gross, for one thing, scary for another. In searching online the only thing I could find that described my symptoms was a side effect of a genital wart medication, which I'm obviously not taking, so it was a fruitless search effort for a solution that doesn't seem to exist. Help...I'm freaked out. If I have some sort of STD (what that would be I don't know, since there's been no pain, no rash, etc, just the horrible horrible peeling) I need to know what to do about it...I'm not having intercourse, but we do fool around, we haven't in about a week and a half because I've (thankfully) been on my period, creating the perfect excuse to take some time and figure this out. Anyone with advice....help please :( Is it possible that I just chemically burned the skin with that depilatory last week, and it's just now peeling off?

Welcome!
It's definitely possible you are having a reaction to the cream.