January 8, 2008

Wait, Now I Don't Have Vulvodynia?

My senior year of college I found an “expert” vulvodynia. After poking around for a remarkably short time, she informed me that I didn’t have vulvodynia; I had vulvar vistubulitis, a condition where your vagina is in constant spasm. She told me that was why I had the most unbearable pain with penetration. She said I wasn’t a candidate for surgery or medication, but she told me I would need to undergo physical therapy.

I went home and cried after that appointment. I couldn’t think of anything more humiliating than having to work my vaginal muscles on the fingers of a stranger. That’s incredible private. It’s one thing to lie back, space out and have a pelvic exam, but it’s another thing to be working with the medical professional who has her hand in you.

I didn’t want to do it. I felt completely hopeless. I wanted it to be something straightforward. I know this sounds terrible, but I wanted it to be cancer. Cancer you can treat, cancer you can remove. In my mind, there was nothing I could ever do to make this go away.

4 comments:

Lora said...

When my pain didn't go away with cancer treatment, I cried because what I had wasn't cancer.

The pain IS that bad, I totally understand and feel for you

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Guantes De Latex said...

So sad, its really being painful for whats going on but still you have to stay brave against that.

Botiquin De Primeros Auxilios said...

Oh hun! I am so sorry to hear about what you are going through..... hugs!!!!!!!

Harley Street Psychotherapist said...

Well to be honest this is first time before that I had never heard a case like yours and not even know how to help her but i advise she should seek a specialist doctor.