Itchy skin rash, bartholins cyst, recurring UTIs

Patient ID: Sex: F Age: 26 Nature of work: Office Admin Habits: ?


Please answer the following questions in a descriptive manner after careful analysis and recollection of previous experiences and happenings.

1. Describe your main suffering? Bartholins cyst

2. What other physical sufferings do you have in your body? An itchy rash on inner elbows, neck, chest and breasts, shoulders, back and a little bit on my stomach. Also recurring UTIs after sex.

3. What mental sufferings / feelings do you have associated with your physical sufferings? Anxiety and panic about why I can't get rid of the rash and cyst.

4. What exactly do you feel when you are at your worst? Describe the sensation in your own words. Defeated, powerless, scared.

5. When did it all start? Can you connect it to any past event or disease? It started when I returned to the UK after holidaying in Australia for 4 weeks.

6. Which time of the day you are worst? late afternoon to evening

7. What are the things which aggravate your suffering and which are those which ameliorate the same? Example- time, temperature, pressure, rubbing, washing, eating, tight clothing etc.
Tight clothing, heat make me itchier. Bartholins cyst gets more swollen after sex and also swells when I am in a hot bath.


8. Do your think your sufferings have relation to any external stimuli (like, change of place) or any internal biological changes in the body, like, menses (in females)? I started taking the contraceptive pill on the same week that I noticed the bartholin cyst

9. When do you feel better, during hot weather or cold weather, humid or dry weather? in cold weather

10. Describe your general mental set up? Are you Moody, Arrogant, Mild, Agreeable Changeable, Nervous, Suspicious, Easily offended, Quiet, Arguing, Irritating, Lazy etc. Easily offended but mostly agreeable

- How do you feel before or during a thunderstorm? Normal, no negative or positive affects.

- Do you like being consoled during your tough times? yes
- Are you sensitive to external stimuli like smell, noise, light etc? Yes sensitive to smell

- Do you have any typical habit or gesture like nail biting, causeless
Weeping, talking to one self etc? No

- How do you feel about your friends, family, your children and especially your husband / wife? Love my family and my boyfriend is supportive but I get anxious because the cyst and UTIs affect our sex life

11. What are your fears and do you dream of any situation repeatedly? Im scared these problems wont go away and wont have a normal sex life


12. What do you crave for in food items and what are your aversions? Crave chocolate and sweet foods. No real aversions

13. How is your thirst: Less, Normal or Excessive? Normal

14. How is your hunger: Less, Normal or Excessive? Normal, excessive when I get my period

15. Is there any kind of food which your body can’t stand? No

16. Is your sweat normal or less or more? Where does it sweat more: Head, Trunk or Limbs? Normal, sweat more under arms and face

17. How is your bowel movement and stool type? Usually quite easy

18. How well do you sleep? Do you have a particular posture of sleeping? Have not been sleeping well at all, interrupted sleep. usually on side or stomach

19. Do you think you are able to satisfy your sexual desires in general? Not really

20. Do you have any strange, peculiar or unusual symptom or feelings? How are you different from others? Do not think so

21. What medications have been taken earlier by you to treat the diseases and do you have any particular symptom surfacing after the medication?
Dr prescribed antibiotics for cyst. Also been taking serrapeptase, silica complex, cranberry and probiotics and turmeric.

22. What major diseases are running in your family? None

23. Describe, how do you look like? Describe your overall appearance. I look tired, skin looks dry or red and irritated
(For Females)
24. If your menstrual cycles are not normal, please describe the irregularities, like pains, moods, flow type, clots etc. Regular period, heavy flow first day, light after that

25. What major diseases have you had in your life and when. Please write them in a chronological manner.
Chicken pox at 23, bartholins abcess at 23, genital herpes at 26