Question: Hello Dr Mazumadar. About 6 days ago I noticed that my clitoris was feeling a bit tender. To give context, I had been masturbating a lot in the previous days, with long finger nails and also using a toy which I suspect was not clean, and I put it down the to that and didn't think a lot more of it. The tenderness persisted and so I lifted up my clitoral hood to take a look. There was A LOT of white smegma, and upon clearing it away I noticed 3 symmetrical round-ish abrasions arrange as follows, one on the clitoris gland itself and two above it to either side, on the underside of the clitoral hood. They were dappled red in the middle and had a vague white outline. More symptomatic info, there was no pain on urine passing over then, no lymphnode enlargement or pain in the groin and the rest of the vulva appeared normal with no swelling or soreness. When I first found them I cleaned away the smegma, and touched them to see if they were painful themselves to the touch. No pain or stinging was felt, just this tenderness on the clitoris generally. In the following days I made to sure to keep cleaning away the smegma and it all healed very well and left no marks behind. On the second day I also applied thrush cream under the clitoral hood which really sped up the healing and took away the soreness. I am very prone to yeast infections and I was wondering if it's possible to get a yeast infection under the clitoris which causes breaking in the skin? In the 2 days since they completely disappeared I have continued to feel extra sensitivity in the clitoral area, although it looks totally normal again. It's not pain as such just an odd sensitivity. I have pictures of the area on the first and second days if that is helpful.

For further context, I was in a monogamous relationship for five and a half years with a man, my most recent sexual partner aside from that was two and a half years ago. It was a female and we engaged in oral sex & vulva to vulva contact. I never had any skin symptoms/ issues in the immediate or close aftermath of that encounter and since then have only had sex with the male partner.
I have had full STI screenings as recently as 2 months ago and everything was negative.
I have only had sex without condoms with two men, both of which I was in monogamous relationships with at the time.

nother thing I forgot to mention, I did experience some heavy discharge around the time of noticing the soreness on the clitoris, but that is not particularly unusual for me as I often have heavy vaginal secretions.

Hello Dr XXXXXXX

Thank you so much for your thorough reply, it has really put my mind at ease and made me feel a lot better. This has been something that was causing me a lot of anxiety and worry. I was very concerned that I had HSV2 and your reply has made me feel a lot more reassured that it is probably not that.
I think I am still going to get the antibody blood test but I feel more positive that I likely to do not have it now.

As requested I uploaded two pictures of the area that I took today. As you can see it looks totally normal now.