Re: Hi...I'm new

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Holy Cow, you're from Chicago???

You lucky girl. Look up Rhonda Kotarinos and book an appointment asap. You're in good hands and you will very very likely get well. Also I suggest joining the yahoogroup happypelvis as there are many on there who go to Rhonda. You will learn what to expect. Rhonda sees many many out of town patients and some even move there to be near her.

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/happypelvis/

Hi...I'm new

Hi all,I just wanted to say hi. I am new to the group. I suffer from VVS with most all of my pain being sex related (not a good thing when I'm married). I've have symptoms as far back as my first tampon. I was just diagonosed 6 months ago, but haven't/don' t have insurance to try much. This illness has depressed me for the last 7 years when my first time with sex...the day after my wedding, I felt unbelievable pain. I was petrified to be near my husband as he wanted sex all of the time and I felt like I was being raped. I didn't even tell him how much it hurt for the first 3 months until I just couldn't let him near me anymore. We've managed to get through...and even had a wonderful daughter a year ago, but it is still so hard. We had hoped and prayed that the birth of our daughter would "open me up", but alas it didn't help...just more pain from tearing. On top of everything, b/c of the

pain (I believe), I have had no desire for sex. My desire went away about 3-6 mths before we got married as I knew that I was going to have to have sex and didn't know how I would get something so big into me without pain. I was right about the pain.Okay, I should go now that I've talked your ear off. Oh, BTW, how long do you generally have to go to PT? Does anyone know a good PT in the Chicago south suburbs? I don't know if I can afford it, but I'd like to see. The lidocaine has started to now really work and is burning. I need cheap solutions.Thanks,

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Thanks. It is great to hear that people are getting past this...even

if it does take time and a lot of work. I hope that I can find

something soon. I think that I will look into PT when I get health ins

again.

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> You are not alone! I always had pain too..turns out I had lichen

> planus, a vulvar skin disorder, and the pain and inflammation of that

> caused me to have vestibulitis. Now that I know what's wrong and have

> figured out how to treat it, I am slowly getting better and have now

> had intercourse twice with very little pain (just this past week). It

> took doctors 3 years to diagnose me and then over a year of trial and

> error on different topical and oral meds, diet changes, and weekly

> physical therapy for 9 months to get me to this point, and I'm not

done

> yet. Please don't give up - there is help and hope but you have to be

> willing to try a lot of things, do a lot of research, and be up for

the

> journey - being well is worth the effort!

> Melinda

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