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@ Heather, thank you! And it really is ridiculous how little doctors know about it. I hope vaginismus becomes a lot more well known because no one should have to go through years of trying to figure out what’s wrong and what to do about it, and I’m glad to help 🙂

@ Mayflower, yes it definitely is 🙂 I can’t imagine 7 years, I thought a year and a half was long. It was a huge relief to find this treatment though 🙂

[Rebecca227]

Hi, my name is Rebecca and I’m the 150th patient. I found out I had vaginismus around December 2010 when I was flipping through my boyfriend’s psychology textbook and I happened to stop at a page that described what vaginismus was. The description sounded really familiar to me, but I thought since I had never heard of it there’s no way I had it. Me and my boyfriend continued trying every once in a while and eventually I realized there was definitely something wrong. So I decided to look up vaginismus on the internet and when I started reading stories about what so many women go through to treat it, I started crying because I not only knew that I had it, but I thought I’d never be able to fix it. At first I thought maybe I’d be able to fix it on my own so we continued to try having sex, but I would only end up crying and it wasn’t getting any better. Then we tried using alcohol because I figured maybe if I’m relaxed enough, it would work. But no matter how many times we tried, it didn’t work and I was getting more and more depressed about it. About half a year after I discovered I had it, I went to a gynecologist and surprisingly she knew what it was, and also had 4 other patients with it. She recommended I use the dilators but I tried them for a couple months beforehand and wasn’t getting anywhere. I continued doing more research on my own and read lots of awful stories about how a lot of gynecologists have gone about treating vaginismus, and I knew there had to be something that would work. Finally I came across Dr. Pacik’s website and read about botox for vaginismus. That was the first time I had ever heard of that being a treatment so I wasn’t sure what to think of it. However when I called the office and asked about it, I talked to Sue and she had an answer to every one of my questions and was very helpful and caring. I decided to ask a different gynecologist about using botox to treat vaginismus and he thought it was too drastic and that I should see a psychologist, but he knew nothing about the procedure and seemed to be very close minded about it, so I decided to look more into it myself. Everything I read made me really hopeful because it seemed to be the only treatment that was a success for so many women. Once I read Dr. Pacik’s book and learned more about the procedure, I knew I had to do it. Everyone that I talked to from the office was so kind and made me feel so comfortable about making the decision. I wanted to make an appointment as soon as possible. I was pretty nervous about the procedure just because I had never been under anesthesia before, but once it was over, I realized I was worrying over nothing. It was so fast and I wasn’t in any pain when I woke up. The next day I practiced with the dilators and it was amazing how I was using the three biggest ones when before the most I could do was the second smallest one. I’ve slept with the purple one in the past three nights, since the day of the procedure. I had been using the dilators every day for an hour in the morning and an hour at night, and last night right after I had finished with the blue dilator, me and my boyfriend decided to attempt intercourse. After about twenty minutes of trying, it worked! I am so glad I decided to go through with the procedure, and I’m thankful that my boyfriend has been there to support me through everything. I also couldn’t have asked for a better doctor or a nicer staff. They made the experience so much easier for me and I hope more women with vaginismus find out about botox so they don’t have to suffer anymore.

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