Hello,

I’m wondering if anyone has had a similar experience as me. I’m 28 years old and around 8 months ago I noticed that I had developed what I thought what a Bartholins cyst. I went to the dr who agreed but didn’t do any further checks as she said it would soon drain/ go away. 8 months later and it has slightly grown - it’s  oval shaped, pointed at one end and around the size of a broad bean (I’ve just realised how hard it is to compare a size!). On top of this, my labia has become incredibly sensitive and itchy, and several lumps have appeared on my actual labia. I also have developed a cluster of small white raised bumps in this area. Obviously I’m quite concerned by this, I’m not sexually active and haven’t been for close to a year now. I also had a strange experience after going to he loo last week - I looked down and there were several drops of what appeared to be fresh blood on top of the paper, but there was no trace of it on loo paper (did some careful dabbing to check) which has baffled me but it’s pushed me to book in with the docs. I have also developed quite severe hip pain which seems to be triggered by movement even as slight as emptying and stacking the dishwasher. I washed my kitchen floor a few weeks back and started crying because the pain was so bad. Needless to say I’m a bit worried about what this could be, I have an appointment on the 17th with my docs (they asked me to wait until 6 jan but then moved it earlier when I told them about my symptoms). 

I know that this very well turn out to be nothing, but I was wondering if anyone here experienced similar and would be willing to share? I like to think that I’m quite sensible about these things but I’m stressing that this could be vulvar cancer. I haven’t felt right for months and I’m a single parent to a five year old who is going through epilepsy diagnosis, so terribly timing! 

Any help/shared experiences would be greatly appreciated.