Re: Vulvar disorders - excellent site/Private Practice

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What night and which station has this program, Millie.

Vulvar disorders - excellent site/Private Practice

JEssica, This isn't rare at all. I think the last figure I read was above 10million in the U.S. alone. See this site: http://www.google.com/search?q=frequency+vulvar+vestibulitis+in+U.S. & sourceid=navclient-ff & ie=UTF-8 & rls=GGGL, GGGL:enWhere it is written: "Vulvodynia is frequently misdiagnosed. In a general gynecologic practice population, the prevalence of this condition may be as high as 15 percent"ALso see: http://www.womenshealthmatters.ca/resources/show_res.cfm?ID=42285 Hueber <jessikat1624 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:

I'm so excited! I don't know if any of you watch the "Grey's Anatomy"spin-off show on ABC called "Private Practice." (And sorry if thishas already b een posted... I get daily digest). Well, the doctor onthe show is a gynocologist, . One of her patients tonight onthe show has Vulvar Vestibulitis. She had been trying to figure outwhy this chick couldn't have sex and she found out she had VVS andsomething else (I forget, maybe she said vulvadynia.. couldn't hearcause i wasn't paying attention at first). Anyway, she explained whatit was (the nerve endings, etc) and said she was going to give shotsof lidocaine and such. i was hoping that they wouldn't say this wasthe cure, and they didn't. when the woman asked if she was going to becured, doc didn't answer her.it's probably dumb, but i'm actually happy that someone addressed this(even if only momentarily) on a primetime tv show. it's such a raredisorder (and probably why it was shown)... but maybe it'll helpsomeone who has VVS and hasn't been diagnosed to figure out what she has. **IF REPLYING TO THIS POST, PLEASE REMOVE ORIGINAL POST, Thanks for your cooperation! *****

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Wed ABC 9:00 EST. They did trigger point injections and

then " althernative therapy " from the Alt. Dr. It didn't really say

what he did but he uses acupuncture, etc.

If anyone missed the program you can watch it online at www.abc.com

The only bad thing was that they cured it soon and used the old

name " Vulvar Vestibulitis " and not " Vestibuladynia " (big deal, I

guess) and they also talked about Vaginismus and they were accurate

about the possible cause for both.

Overall, a positive thing to get on prime time TV.

>

> I'm so excited! I don't know if any of you watch the " Grey's

Anatomy "

> spin-off show on ABC called " Private Practice. " (And sorry if

this

> has already b een posted... I get daily digest). Well, the

doctor on

> the show is a gynocologist, . One of her patients

tonight on

> the show has Vulvar Vestibulitis. She had been trying to figure

out

> why this chick couldn't have sex and she found out she had VVS

and

> something else (I forget, maybe she said vulvadynia.. couldn't

hear

> cause i wasn't paying attention at first). Anyway, she

explained what

> it was (the nerve endings, etc) and said she was going to give

shots

> of lidocaine and such. i was hoping that they wouldn't say this

was

> the cure, and they didn't. when the woman asked if she was

going to be

> cured, doc didn't answer her.

>

> it's probably dumb, but i'm actually happy that someone

addressed this

> (even if only momentarily) on a primetime tv show. it's such a

rare

> disorder (and probably why it was shown)... but maybe it'll help

> someone who has VVS and hasn't been diagnosed to figure out

what she has.

>

>

>

> **IF REPLYING TO THIS POST, PLEASE REMOVE ORIGINAL POST,

> Thanks for your cooperation! **

>

> ***