Pain during sex even after doc appointment
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2019 10:55 am
During the last couple of months, I've started to have issues with having sex. I've been sexually active for years with my husband and never had any problems. Around mid-August, I started to occasionally (about half of the time) have this sharp stinging pain during penetration at the left side of my vagina that left us unable to continue. It's strange, because sometimes I don't feel anything, then at other times it feels like a knife stab that has me in pain for days after.
I finally got an appointment with my gynecologist around a month ago. She said she could see that the skin on the left side was indeed reddened and irritated.
None of the lab test results showed there was anything wrong.
I went to the apothecary to get lactic acid treatment as recommended by my doc. It didn't help.
Way before my appointment I also tried not having sex for a couple of weeks in the hopes it would heal or something, that didn't work either.
I asked her what to do further, she basically told me that she can't do anything else for me and that making another appointment is useless!! I have no idea what to do now. Trying to switch gynecologists could take me months to a year if I am unlucky with all the waiting lists for new patients. Besides that, I've had positive experiences with this doc for years now.
Do you have any idea how to counter this skin irritation or whatever it is?
Thank you so much in advance!
I finally got an appointment with my gynecologist around a month ago. She said she could see that the skin on the left side was indeed reddened and irritated.
None of the lab test results showed there was anything wrong.
I went to the apothecary to get lactic acid treatment as recommended by my doc. It didn't help.
Way before my appointment I also tried not having sex for a couple of weeks in the hopes it would heal or something, that didn't work either.
I asked her what to do further, she basically told me that she can't do anything else for me and that making another appointment is useless!! I have no idea what to do now. Trying to switch gynecologists could take me months to a year if I am unlucky with all the waiting lists for new patients. Besides that, I've had positive experiences with this doc for years now.
Do you have any idea how to counter this skin irritation or whatever it is?
Thank you so much in advance!