My friend

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My really good friend just came to me and told me she had a situation and was freaking out. For the last few months shes been thinking that her boyfriend has been cheating on her.. because they had only had sex once in 3 months... and they arent doing so great. This is what she has told me on MSNall of a sudden i have these little bumps...down there and they cant be from shaving cuz i havnt shaved in a while they dont hurt or anything but they are there and i dont think they are ingrown hairs either.they are little tiny red bumps like tiny tinyand they arnt on my cooch they are like before u know?really? its been there like a month and ive been keeping and eye on it and now im reaking out cuz its not goneI dunno what to tell her!

and they arnt on my cooch they are like before u know?This is not the time to be coy. Where are they?

Coy?Maybe if you had a vagina steve you would know what she is talking about.Its the place where your pubes grow that isnt your vagina

Do they itch or anything?

I have a place where pubes grow that isn't my penis. But no matter what equipment you have, it was rather confusing.Maybe she has scabies? Or folliculitis? Or neither? Maybe it has something to do with sexual contact...or not. No one is going to make a diagnosis with any kind of certainty based on that description.Whether or not it itches is an important piece of information.By "coy", I meant not as medical in description as it could be.

I just copied and pasted what she said.Kris, i asked that too. She said she had no other symptoms.. no itchiness, no burning, no discharge.She thinks it might be HPV

Here are the signs and symptoms of HPV from the CDC website: Most people who have a genital HPV infection do not know they are infected. The virus lives in the skin or mucous membranes and usually causes no symptoms. Some people get visible genital warts, or have pre-cancerous changes in the cervix, vulva, anus, or penis. Very rarely, HPV infection results in anal or genital cancers. Genital warts usually appear as soft, moist, pink, or flesh-colored swellings, usually in the genital area. They can be raised or flat, single or multiple, small or large, and sometimes cauliflower shaped. They can appear on the vulva, in or around the vagina or anus, on the cervix, and on the penis, scrotum, groin, or thigh. After sexual contact with an infected person, warts may appear within weeks or months, or not at all.Genital warts are diagnosed by visual inspection. Visible genital warts can be removed by medications the patient applies, or by treatments performed by a health care provider. Some individuals choose to forego treatment to see if the warts will disappear on their own. No treatment regimen for genital warts is better than another, and no one treatment regimen is ideal for all cases. HPV Signs and Symptoms

HPV warts are skin growths, meaning they are skin colored.. not red bumps.I'll bet it is folliculitis, as Steve said, which is an infection of the hair follicles.

That does sound like what it is. Especially since it's located on the pubic mons, an area most women shave. Pink, she can get this even though she hasn't shaved in a while. When was the last time she shaved?