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This morning as I was showering, I noticed a red bump redder, and larger than normal red-shaving-bumps I've gotten before. It almost looked like a pimple and it hurt to touch it. I freaked out, started crying, "Ohmigawd I have an STD!" Then I realized you have to be sexually active to get an STD (I was temporarily brain-dead during my freak-out mode).

So I am wondering, is that what a really bad ingrown hair is? My razor is way past it's time for a new blade but I've never had anything like that before. And what are some peoples' different methods of preventing/treating this?

Comments

[tyrsalvia.livejournal.com]

You might have a zit there. I occasionally get large zits in that region. They're larger, redder, and more painful than the ones you'd get on other parts of your body. I don't really know what to do to make them better, though. I usually wait until they get big, pop them (ick!), and then put some anti-bacterial stuff like neosporin and/or tea tree oil on them.

[grandmanip.livejournal.com]

sometimes i get zits there too, usually around my period.
(and i know they are because i am a trimmer not a shaver)
but then the zits turn into the zit-cysts thing that people
with really bad acne get... the one that looks like a blood blister.
and then pop and are bloody AND white-head-puss-Y.

the weird thing is i have normally clear skin all over my body

i dont think that is normal but i dont think its an
indicator of anything being wrong. do you ever get those?
(maybe i need to pro-active my vagina!)

[tyrsalvia.livejournal.com]

I think it's fairly normal. Not like everyone gets them, but it's in the range of average happenings, muchlike acne on your face.

[appletrees.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've had ingrowny things like that before. Ouch!

Please, please, use a newer blade. It's a little different if it's just your legs or something, because nicks on your legs aren't as big of a deal. But if you're going to shave your pubic area, use a new(ish) blade! I find that as long as I change my blades fairly often and use a nice shaving cream, they don't occur.

[tequilajane.livejournal.com]

Yes..I get them too. I posted about it a while back as well. I thought I was the only one to get them but LOTS of people do. Don't feel bad. I was told that it was from sweat and the weather and stuff. They hurt like a muther.