Re: FUSING.. w. PICTURE

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Thanks much for the pictures, Dee. I had never really understood what was meant

by fusing or adhesions and had actually never looked it up until just recently

because of Tina's postings.

My eyes are " open " now.

Ora

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>HI all and Suzy

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>I know it breaks my heart too, to see young girls with that fusing or

adhesions, and quite often it IS lichen Sclerosis (LS) we've had about 8 young

ones over the years on my LS list, the youngest I think was 2. The owner's

daughter had it and why she started the list. Just a doggone shame those

doctors didn't know about the Estrogen creams, and 'that' is what made me insist

on it 3 years ago, though I was an adult the doctors said it would never work,

but it definitely DID!! Totally restored the tissue, not only the give and

'stretchability' but it unfused me completely and by the way many have no idea

they even are fused. *sigh*.

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>Here's a post I'd sent on a while ago to try to simplify what fusing or

adhesions are in the labial area, and it can happen to anyone with severe enough

irritation or trauma to the area. Hope it helps a bit. I also added a picture

to show just how fusing happpens. (below)

>Dee~ )

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>HI everyone,

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>I thought I'd try to explain 'fusing' if I can ....

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>Normally the mucuous membranes are made to slide back and forth without

sticking to one another, (such as in the mouth or even our internal organs) they

have a 'slickness' to them, (a coating or covering,) without pulling on each

other.

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>When the skin or tissue has been severely irritated for a long time and the

skin 'broken', even by 'severe' constant itching or even if surgery is

performed, it makes some of that tissue 'sticky' instead instead of 'slick', so

that fibrous bands form instead, this causes pulling on one or more of the

surfaces when 'movement' occurs. These 'fibrous bands' are natures way of

trying to heal a broken or cut surface, (much like when we try to hem something

and it keeps 'fraying' and we need to keep pulling more and more of the material

in to have it 'catch' before it 'split's' or rips again, so to speak.

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>Medically if it's internal (as with surgery) we would call it 'adhesions', (as

when one organ attaches to another) (fuses).. and externally such as with the

vaginal lips or clitoral shaft we say 'fusing' or it's 'fused' together. (it

looks as tho the smaller lips 'melted' into the larger ones) in other words

stuck together...(some doctors might even call this 'atrophy') a withering away.

Though it's not the correct term I don't think, but in a way since the smaller

lips can disappear they might be said to have atrophied.

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> Another term might be called agglutination.. which means simply the clumping

together of cells as a result of their contact with certain anti-bodies. Which

is technically I suppose what happens... as in a cut or break in the tissue the

white blood cells come to do battle to heal and look for foreign invaders (but

the 'clumping' is the key word) the skin 'clumps' together. Basically, Fusing

is the act of joining 2 things together, which is what happens. In a tree or

shrub, it might be called 'grafting'... but a joining together with two cut or

raw surfaces. But it's the same idea.

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>A MEDSCAPE ARTICLE I HAVE SAYS:

> " Lichen sclerosus (LS) is an inflammatory dermatosis of the vulva with

>potentially destructive consequences to a woman's perineum.

>Long-term sequelae include atrophy of the labia minora, scarring of the

>clitoral hood, and labial and/or clitoral hood adhesions. "

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>FROM PUB MED:

> " The moist, warm, occluded environment produces

>a tendency for the thin skin of the vulva to erode and scar, resulting in a

>common final appearance often characterized by loss of the labia minora and

>agglutination. "

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>In the end, I think that Fusing is natures only way of healing us when nothing

else has helped and the pain or trauma or irritation has gone on chronically for

a long time. It's natures defense mechanism to protect a raw surface.

>Hope this explains it a little.

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>Warmest,

>Dee

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> HOW FUSING OR ADHESIONS TAKE PLACE:

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>END... DEE~