My Urethra is enlarged/swollen with NO other symptons, no pain, itching, nothing!

hi my names liz im really emarased to say this but i went to the dr because ive been having alot of pain and my uretha are is veryy swollen it hurts to sit, walk,cough sneeze anyhting that puts pessure down there and the dr said i had a cyst on the inside of my vagina on the left side she didnt give much information and i have alot of quesions i didnt think of when i was there like can this be cancerous?

hello,
i have been searching a numerous amount of websites to try and find a self diagnosis of what i may have.. but i have not yet been successful. like others i have noticed something different about my body and just want to know what is wrong. i have probably left it a lot longer than others but i have been too scared to find out what the answer may be. so, i have found that my vagina is swollen, so swollen in fact that it is hard to enter. i haven't had sex since i noticed the problem, so don't have an understanding that it may hurt during sex and only suffer from one symptoms otherwise, this being a discharge with odor, other than that i am swollen on the inside.
could you please help me identify the problem, as i said i can't find any information that only relates to a swollen vagina?
thanks x

Hi,

My name is Milred T. and first i got UTI once and now after 4mths. my urethra is slightly swollen but no infection & no symptoms since my report came clear but my gynocologist hasn't given me any medicine. My age is 32 years. Let me know what has to be done further coz i'm worried what is going to happen.

Regards

I hope you've figured it out by now since it's been months since you posted, but I have some answers for you as well!
I have the same issue. I am 7 months pregnant with my second child, and have had this "enlarged urethra" for 4 months now. I did some research, and found out that I have a stage 2 cystocele (bladder prolapsed into the vagina) and a urethrocele (urethra prolapsed into the vagina). Most websites say that this is due to extremely poor vaginal tone, which causes the vaginal walls to thin out, and allows the surrounding structures to sag into the vagina itself. My midwife says that doing plenty of Kegels should get my vagina back into shape and provide support for the bladder and urethra, but other websites seem to think that the only solution is surgery. I'm certainly going to try the exercises before I jump into surgery :) I'll let you know if that helps in a couple weeks or months. Hopefully this will all be taken care of before I give birth again.
Hope that helps. Good luck!

hi yes i have a slightly enlarged urethra also and 3 uti back to back i think tht may have something to do with it... going to a urologist.....

Thank you for your comment, I just did some searching and looked at some pictures of the Bartholin's glands. I learned something new today! However, they are not near where my issue is. I am quite sure it is my urethra I am looking at, it is inside my inner lips, right above my vagina. I learned what Bartholin's glands are, and that they are to the right and left of the back outside part of the vagina, but not my issue, thank you.

I am wondering if it is actually your urethra you are seeing, or something like the Bartholin's glands inside your vagina? You said "inside your vaginal lips", so I am not sure if you are referring to your "inner lips" (or labia minora) or inside your actual vagina? The Bartholin's glands have been described as looking like a "teeny penis" inside a woman's vagina, so I wanted to be clear that we are talking about the same part of your body.

So that we are on the same page, here is a written description of what you find inside your vagina, as well as inside and outside of your "lips": Sexual Anatomy of Female from Our Bodies, Ourselves.
And, if you don't mind images of the female anatomy (this is a medical illustration only), this may help as well: Medical illustration of vulva. As you can see, the urethra is inside the labia minora, but not inside the opening of your vagina.

Anyways, it may be your urethra that has the bump on it, or a gland inside your vagina, and I just wanted to make sure you are covering all of your bases with information!