Replied by Kathy (Dubois, Pa) on 10/01/2009
You know, sometimes less is more. Too-frequent douching or soaks (or whatever you are doing) with ACV can cause tissue damage. It is hard to tell from your post, but it sounds like you are douching with ACV. To do that occationally is fine, but if you do it too often, or if the ACV/water solution you are using is too strong, it can damage delicate vaginal/vulvar tissue. The same thing can happen from Tea Tree Oil because essential oils can be very irritating, especially to mucous membranes (the vaginal, etc). So, if you are using Tea Tree Oil and ACV on you vulva/vagina, you might want to take a week or two off and see if the problem gets better. If you are in pain, try cool-water sitz baths...JUST PLAIN WATER...and give your tissues a breather from what sounds like a very aggressive home treatment, perhaps applying a small amount of diaper-rash ointment afterward to sooth things down there.
p.s. Since you write that you feel like you "deserve" your problems, could it be that you are using harsh douches as a kind of self-punishment, or as a attempt to "erase" the past? Just be aware that no one "deserves" to get ill, and that being sexual, or exercising poor judgement, is not a sin or a crime, even if people sometimes want us to think it is.
