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.

[Dee_007]

Hi there

I am so relieved.  My daughter has been going through exactly the same thing since she was about 4.  Since then she has had surgery to open her vagina about 3/4 times already.  She just turned 7 and she has been complaining about her vagina again.  Checked it out last night and once again it is closed.  We have taken her to a specialist who gave her the same cream which we had to apply and helped a little bit. Whats interesting is that we also took her to a homeopath who did tests on her and discovered that she was allergic to quite a few things but the big one been Yeast.....  He said that that is what is causing this to happen.  It plays a big role.  He diet needed to be adjusted and for a while it was fine.  I suggest taking your little one to a homeopath.  You really have nothing to lose.  It also seems to happen round about the same time of the year......I have never heard of this condition but our ped has told me it is normal...yeah right...nobody i spk to seems to think it is normal....anyway we are back at the doctors tomorrow.  Hold thumbs...

Dee

[Booboosmum]

Hello,
  
I noticed you menitoned "inner" labia. That is the closest description to what I think my 6month old dahgter has. Her Labia is not fused but actually the vagina opening. She pees fine and everything but there is no opening to her vagina. My doc passed me off and said these things usually open up on there own around age 3 and offered estrogen cream but I didn't take it. I thought if nothings hurting her now it will probably save her from getting vaginal infections for a short while. Anyways I'm hoping to see a specialist for her soon and have an ultrasound done. I'm terrified she doesn't have a uterus, or the rest of female parts. A doctor I work with said we should probably just have a specialist take a look at her to make sure it's not just an empty sac behind the vaingal opening.

Has anyone else ever had just a vaginal fusion? Not the labia being fused.

[me27]

thank you so much i feel a lot better now. well atleast a lot more relaxed i will do one of the options not sure which yet but now i no that it is somewhat normal and can be fixed i am alot happier.

thank yuo

[lhughes]

No reason to be scared.  Do you have a pediatrician that you see regularly?  Have you talked to your mom about seeing a gynecologist?  Either of those options should be open to you to talk with a doc about this.  You are about the right age to consider seeing a GYN if your pediatrician doesn't do a check.

If nothing else, take a mirror and look for yourself.  You should see two sets of "lips", the outer labia are of course the first thing you see, then underneath the inner labia (minora), then your vagina.  If you can see all three, you are ok.  If you are still unsure, it would be best to talk with your mom about your concerns and have her take you to a doc.  Embarrassing, yes.  Important for your health, yes.

But don't worry too much about it, it's a relatively easy fix if it is closed.

[me27]

im 16 and im scared,

for some reason i think ihave this im not sure but im to scared to ask mum about it and i dont really want to sneak behnd her back

would she have noticed when i was little?

is there any way i can find out and you said that they said your daughter could never have kids? i hope this isnt true because it is verty upsetting.

can you still have sex if you are?

please help

[lhughes]

My first daughter had this problem with the closing of the inner labia (minora...always called 'em inner and outer labia, sorry marriedlove :) )...we went through putting estrogen cream on her I think 4 different times for about 3-6 weeks each time depending on how long it took to reopen before it finally stayed open.  It took FOREVER the first time to open up.  I don't think I remember our ped saying there would be any problems since I used just a very little each time and not hardly any of the container over all.  (and I think I asked about problems using it since I have and estrogen positive cancer).

I keep watch on it still, since she's only 3 and still lets me check her out.  I'm glad to know that I should keep checking.  Luckily my second daughter did not have this problem.  Whew.

I liked the idea of taking her to a specialist like a GYN.  They might be able to guide you since that is their specialty area.  I had actually asked my OB about it since I had never heard of such a thing.  Would have taken her into see him except it did remain open eventually.

Best of luck, I hope you can resolve her issue without her thinking anything bad.  It's not uncommon, apparently.