Yes, it's painful.To have my skin touched was like pouring rubbing alcohol over an open cut.
Thanks for the info @GlassHouse . I will ask my GP for the cream and will let you know how it goes.
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Yes, it's painful.To have my skin touched was like pouring rubbing alcohol over an open cut.
Dear Fredam7Ob/gyns like diagnosing with lichen sclerosis and handing you steroids . Happened to me twice only there needs to be a biopsy . LS is rare
Vulvodynia is an umbrella term but with specific symptoms and often one has vulvar vestibulitis which can't be confused with LS.
Another thing , many women with VV, think they're hsvinb UTIs early on . Dr's like to give cipro and cipro will usually destroy a person , I have damage from cipro and it is progressive and even when my UA was negative , they would give me cipro . Even after the warnings . Which I didn't know about , too busy "accomplishing" , what a joke , right ? Further , my sister , who is an ob/gyn, who has never , ever taken any interest or offered any help and even laughed when my spine was permanently damaged , was always ready to call in cipro across the country . I thought it was her way of being nice . I took a lot of cipro , she didn't say hey , no one can have all these UTIs.
After the pain became so acute , I sought out other dr's , I learned they were not UTIs, it was the VV.
Be careful with someone telling you that you have a vaginal
Infection . In France , when women have uti's , they take an over the counter herb , they don't give them antibiotics, many of which are harmful .
If VV is caught early and things are done to let it heal , it can go away , otherwise , its chronic and very painful .