Day 10

Finally I feel a bit better. This morning I was hardly bleeding at all, I got up earlier than I have been all week and went to see my GP.
I told her I was worried my stitches weren't healing properly or fast enough, and that they might get infected.
She said the wounds look like they're healing nicely and to carry on with what I'm doing (she obviously didn't notice the damage I caused with my little stitch-removing fiasco). She also gave me advice like putting salt in the bath and only wearing cotton underwear and skirts/dresses for a while. I'd be doing that anyway to be honest.
Ok, so panic over.
For about an hour...then the itching started. I've been itchy for a while as you can imagine with stitches in such a sensitive area. But soon after I arrived home from the doctors, it suddenly became unbearable. I started to suspect it wasn't even the stitches; it felt like thrush. Now I've only had it once, but it was horrific.  It started around my perineum and spread upwards, affecting my vagina and eventually my clitoris which became unbearably sensitive and painful. I had red sores which felt like open wounds and it was so painful to urinate that was actually afraid to drink. This went on for over a week before I saw a doctor (I had never had it before so didn't actually know what I had). 
So you can imagine my fear/disgust when I felt earlier that I might have it again, particularly so close to my delicate stitches! I went straight to the shop and bought a duo treatment - one pill and a cream which you apply 2/3 times a day. This cost £12.30 by the way!!
But it was so worth it - I took the pill and applied the cream and within about half an hour it felt ok. So definitely I have thrush, but at least its treatable. The cream keeps wearing off and there's not a lot I can do about the itching then, but I've found ice helps when nothing else will. I've not been wearing where possible but I'm trying to get on with life a bit more so this is becoming more difficult. Also the cream and the stitches are not friends. If I get any on the stitches it really stings!
Other than the itching, everything seems ok. I can sit down much more easily and comfortably. I'm just really conscious of keeping the thrush to a minimum (as if I need MORE problems in this area) and keeping everything clean. I'll let you know how that goes.

Do keep commenting/asking questions, it's great to know people are actually reading along.
Though I must say it's actually therapeutic to offload like this.
But yeah, ask me anything.