So, I am a single 30 year old female who is a virgin. I do sexually please myself however. I was ashamed at first, but T told me it was perfectly normal for a single person my age.

Anyways, I masturbated for hours last night (not inside my vagina, but on the outside of it, the clit and lips). It felt so good, I didn't want to stop...eventually I did after giving up that I would reach orgasm.

This moring, I have sharp pains in my clit and vaginal lips. It feels like someone is poking them with a needle while setting them on fire. It's a mixture between pain and burning.

I think I may have just overstimulated it last night, but I don't know. If it doesn't go away sometime today, I think it may be time to look through my insurance providers and find an ob-gyn to go to. The thought of going to a dr. I have never met before and letting them examine down there scares me.

I probably need to find one anyways as I have only have 1 pelvic exam/pap smear in my life. I never got my first one till I have a stable job teaching in another county than I am in now and got insurance. Back then, I just called a group that was accepting new patients and they assigned me to one of their drs. I had never met him and let him poke and probe "down there", but that was just for something routine.

After that year, I moved back to the town where I grew up and did not have a benefits eligible job for the first 2 years (took all short term positions). I finally landed a job that I could get benefits with in 2010, though I had to wait the 90 days or whatever so I didn't get them until 2011. I never bothered finding a new ob-gyn because I didn't see the point as I felt fine. I know, I know...bad thinking.

But, now that I am in "pain", I am thinking that I really do need to find one. I am just a little scared at what he will want to do for this issue. If it was just routine/preventive things, I would be fine as I would know what to expect. But the unknown is killing me.

Does anyone have any advice?