It has been reported that some patients have been misdiagnosed with Vaginal Yeast Infection, when in fact the correct diagnosis in their specific case was Pelvic Organ Prolapse.
Pelvic organ prolapse is a condition that occurs when the vaginal walls or uterine cervix protrude beyond the cervix. Symptoms include urinary incontinence, obstructive voiding (difficulty in emptying the bladder), faecal incontinence, and tenesmus, a sense of incomplete evacuation of the bowels. Conditions that pelvic organ prolapse can be misdiagnosed as include urogenital atrophy (drying, inflamed and thinning vaginal walls), severe irritation of the vaginal mucosa from a bacterial infection, a large urethral diverticulum (pocket in the urethra where urine collects inside the body) or a vaginal wall cyst can present as a bulge.