Thank you for sharing your story. I have been suffering excruciating pain since about a year after my second child was born, but when I think back I really beleive that I have experienced this pain as far back as I can remember. I have never been able to wear a tampon and even though my friends in their young 20s were bragging about their sexual escapades, I did not find mine enjoying and could not be touched more than once a week... let alone multiple times a day as they were experiencing! I am 32 now, and finally have a name for my vulvodynia. I have tried all OTC and prescription yeast medications, terazol cream, testosterone cream, estrogen cream, both hormones at the same time, calendula, vitamins, among other treatments. I experienced about 6 weeks of relief when a doctor I was seeing took me off of the birth control pill, but the pain is back and somedays it is without any sexual contact or irritation. I am hoping that someday someone finds a treatment for the pain because it has become debilitating, both physically and emotionally. I ended a relationship because I thought I wasn't being fair to him, and I have now been single for 5 years and find myself very lonely and depressed. It is a miserable condition... I would pay top dollar for a treatment that worked!
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Thank you for sharing your story. I have been suffering excruciating pain since about a year after my second child was born, but when I think back I really beleive that I have experienced this pain as far back as I can remember. I have never been able to wear a tampon and even though my friends in their young 20s were bragging about their sexual escapades, I did not find mine enjoying and could not be touched more than once a week... let alone multiple times a day as they were experiencing! I am 32 now, and finally have a name for my vulvodynia. I have tried all OTC and prescription yeast medications, terazol cream, testosterone cream, estrogen cream, both hormones at the same time, calendula, vitamins, among other treatments. I experienced about 6 weeks of relief when a doctor I was seeing took me off of the birth control pill, but the pain is back and somedays it is without any sexual contact or irritation. I am hoping that someday someone finds a treatment for the pain because it has become debilitating, both physically and emotionally. I ended a relationship because I thought I wasn't being fair to him, and I have now been single for 5 years and find myself very lonely and depressed. It is a miserable condition... I would pay top dollar for a treatment that worked!
December 3, 2008 - 12:53pmThis Comment
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