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Hi Aunt Vadge,
I’m a 28-year-old virgin. Five years ago, I accidentally drove my fingernail into the flesh where the clitoral hood attaches to the labia minora. The clitoral hood looked deflated, I bled a little, and a small speck of flesh came off. But that was it at the time.
Since then it’s got worse. The labia minora flesh now hangs loose from inside the clitoral hood in pieces. I think there may be more broken flesh inside my hood where my fingernail went, and it’s coming out slowly. It hurts to touch my clitoral hood. What do I do? I need a home remedy. Can I use skin glue myself to glue the labia minora pieces together? I need serious help.
Yours,
Serious
Age 28
Hi Serious,
You really do need proper help with this one, and I want to be straight with you because I care about your safety: please don’t try a home remedy, and please don’t use skin glue. Tissue that’s breaking down and coming away from your body over time is not something to manage yourself.
This needs a doctor to examine you and find out what’s actually going on. We can’t assess it from here because we can’t see it, and it sounds beyond what any home treatment could safely fix. It could be a chronic infection, an ongoing inflammatory or skin condition, or something else entirely – but only someone who can look at it properly can tell you, and treat it before there’s any more damage to your clitoris and hood.
If seeing your regular doctor is difficult, please find someone local with medical training who can take a look – a nurse, or a sexual health clinic, many of which examine you for little or no cost. A gynaecologist or dermatologist would be ideal given it involves the skin and vulva.
Please don’t wait on this. You deserve to have it looked after properly.
Warmest regards,
Aunt Vadge
This is general information, not a substitute for personalised medical advice.
