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Hi Aunt Vadge,
I bled after fingering and was sore when sitting down. The bleeding stopped after a day or so, but I’ve found a lump or tear on the inside wall. What is it?
Best,
Lumpy
Hi there Lumpy,
This sounds like a graze and a little swelling from your partner’s fingers, and the sensible move is to let it heal on its own, which it almost certainly will. Give it time and be very gentle: nothing inside the vagina — no fingers, toys, penises or tampons — until it’s fully healed, so you’re not reopening it.
If it’s sore when you wee, take a cup of warm water to the toilet and pour it over your vulva as you go, which dilutes the acidic urine and stops the sting while the skin recovers.
About the lump: a small, tender lump right where a tear is healing is usually just part of that — swollen, inflamed tissue or a little healing ridge — which settles as the area mends over a week or two. So in the short term, there’s no need to worry.
What I would do is keep an eye on it: if, once the soreness has gone and it’s had a couple of weeks to heal, there’s still a distinct lump that isn’t going away, or if it grows, becomes painful, or you notice unusual discharge, that’s worth a doctor taking a quick look, just to be sure it’s nothing more than healing tissue.
But a lump that appeared alongside a fingering graze is most likely simply that area repairing itself.
Warmest regards,
Aunt Vadge
This is general information, not a substitute for personalised medical advice.
