[Petlovergirll]

Thanks so much for your response to me!! I really appreciate the info. I think I will try this … 🙂

[Petlovergirll]

Hi Jackie, thanks so much for your response! I do have an appointment with a local doctor to see what I can find out, but not for a few months. I’m trying to find out as much as I can before I go so I can ask really good questions in the time I have with the doctor.

You mentioned post-menopause atrophy due to lack of estrogen. One thing I didn’t mention is 4 of 4 gyneclogists prescribed estrogen cream to insert 3 times a week for painful sex. I’ve done this over 6 years and it never changed anything for me. Does it tell me something that the cream didn’t help?

Also, I had this same problem 5 or 6 years before menopause. Not sure what that all means, but just wanted to mention it.

Thanks again!

[Petlovergirll]

I should add that I used to be able to get aroused and have pleasurable sex for many years. I believe it was a med I used to take that lessened my arousal, and the slicing entrance pain started. I’ve had this pain both before and after menopause. I had an easy menoupause, no side effects.

Thanks!

[Petlovergirll]

Hello,

Gosh, I’m still confused here. My issue is I have extreme pain, like I’m being sliced with a knife, at the very entrance. I’ve tried using a sex toy which is wide with a “head”, then narrows, then widens, and so forth. I only hurt at the wide parts. No pain when it gets to a narrow part. But my husband is wider than the wide parts, so it hurts constantly until he exits completely. No amount of lube helps.

I’ve always thought that meant vestibulitis, because it hurts in the opening around my vagina, the vestibule. That the muscles of the pelvic floor remain in a chronic high tension state. This seems to describe my issue exactly. I thought vaginismus was a spontaneous tightening of the muscles of the vaginal wall. It doesn’t hurt me up inside my vagina. Only at the very outside opening.

Can anyone offer any advice or clarification?

Thanks so much!!

[Petlovergirll]

Is there anyplace on here where instructions for using Lidocaine are provided? I’d like to see if it will help me to avoid the pain at the start of intercourse. Pain is just at the very entrance area.

Thanks so much!!

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