closed vagina on 8 yr old

[mrbkn]

When my daughter was 1 I was tending my sisters little girl and noticed that our girls looked VERY different. I told my husband that our little girl didn't have a vagina. He just laighed and said that all girls have them. I called ask a nurse and they gave me news no mother would ever want to hear. ( she will never have children and all that.) So I called the hospital and my Dr. happened to be there. He had me call first thing in the morning and get her in for him to see her. He pulled up her birth records and she was normal when she was born. They did ultrasounds and everything is there. So he sent us to a ped. obgyn and she put her on estegen. She opened up. We continued putting the cream on and she closed back up. This Dr. moved out of state and we found a new Dr.  She tried everything we would get her opened for a min. and then she would close back up. At the age of 4 she ws surgically opened up. That lasted about 3 months. They don't know what is causing her to do this we have had dermitlogists do allergy tests and no one seems to know.
We have taken her off the estregen because of health risks and are hoping when the time comes that her own body will kick in and open her up. I have heard of this happening but when they gave the cream it opened them and they were fine.
Has anyone heard of this?  I am worried now because if her own body doesn't kick in and she starts her period and the blood pools it can kill her.

[boochunk]

my little girl is 3 years old now i noticed that there was a problem when she was about one and half took her to the docs and was told eveything was fine . i left it a little longer and still wasnt happy with it myself at this point the doctor at are local gp's refferred her to a specialst at the hospital who said that this is normal in little girl's and should change in time , from then my little girl has had water infection ect and is very  uncomfortable all the time  just had her back to the docs and they have put her on the estregen cream which at the minute hasnt done a thing but make things worse she is due to see the hospital again in june i'm really scared that this will always be a problem for my little girl even if it opens will it stay open? will she have problems in later life?

[Mojo9]

My 4 year old daughter suffers from constant redness and sensitivity aroudn her vulva. She's had this problem since her inner libia sealed together. She was prescribed some estrogen cream and it reopened. Since then, which has been over a year now, i've been using hydrocortisone cream 1%..prescibed by my doctor for the redness..and as soon as I don't use it..the redness and pain comes back...what am I to do? I've tried everything from her diet to unscented products..?? i'm all out of options. I am going to see my doctor this week. I'm worried for my little gril..I hope that it's nothing serious.

[faragine]

I was born that way, I had to have an operation, and I was like 5 years old. I'm 24 now and my parents used to tell me that it was a cyst I had the operation for. I don't know why they lied to me then. But now, it is really difficult to have sexual relationships, I love kids but I am so afraid of giving birth since it hurts so much and I am afraid I'll probably will never have any. Well, what can I do about it? Nothing! I hope everything turns out GREAT for your daughter. Don't worry!!!

[charli299]

i just want to let you know that i had the same problem and had to use the cream to about the age of 10... my hole closed up many times but i was too young to remember how they reopened it.. i just want you to know that everything should be fine! The olny problem i have is pain using feminine products and sex... but that goes away after a few minutes.. also as for having children.. i'm 4 months pregnant and they thought it wouldn't happen.. the only difference is that cause of my small hole size that i must have a c section but besides those small things i live a perfectly normal life and there was no emotional problems.. i understood that it was rare but it made me special.. good luck and if you need to talk to someone who dealt with this first person my email address is ***@****.. good luck

[trac777]

I am wondering when you say "closed up' do you mean there is inflammations involved? Is that why these children are being given hormone cream? I was thinking if it was some sort of inflammation wouldn't a steriod cream work better? Have they had any tests suggesting they have a hormone problem? If the problem is inflammation it could be caused by an autoimmune disorder callled Behcet's Syndrome. It is not contagious and it does not run in families. It is trigger by things like strep throat, infections, food poisoning or for unknown reasons which have caused permant damage to the immune system. The first symptom is genital inflammation. The disease later evolves to include genital sores, cranker sores in the mouth at least three times per year, then muscle or joint pain, and finally eye inflammation. It can be years before all the symptoms show up. Predisolone and other immune supressants are used to control symptoms. It is usually treated by a Rheumotologist. You can find much more information at the Behcet's Disease Association Website.

[kat199]

my daughter also had this when she was 4 i used the cream just for a while. it opened up on its  own my pediatrician was really great he said even if it didnt open up on its own after the cream it would when hormones kicked in the only thing to watch out for are infections, uti's i'm sure everything will be fine.