Re: A recent study on VV (Dr. G)

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HI all ,

I don't think Dr. G said there are no vestibular glands, but instead said that.... ''Vestibulitis has nothing to do with the glands, even the term vestibulitis is misleading because it also has nothing to do with acute inflammation. Instead it is a proliferation of abnormal nerve fibers in the vestibule."....

He also said

....."Over the last few years the pathological changes that are responsible for these new clinical criteria have been discovered. The most important of which is that there are 10 times(!!!!!) the number of pain nerve fibers, and 8 times(!!!!) the number of mast cells in the vestibule of women with VVS"....

So that (to me) would tie in and definitely agree with what Drs. Witkin, Ledger and others are saying, even Dr. Willems I believe. I agree that it's not a reason to not search for a trigger, indeed that makes absolute sense and if one can find it that's wonderful to know what the allergen may be and we can avoid it.

But it's that over 50% of sufferers that do NOT have a known trigger that's so frustrating where one may have changed nothing in the diet or worn a allergen or inhaled one etc.etc. whatever one might be allergic to, and still have it be set off one time and not the next. I do know that the majority of all the articles I've researched on the Mast cells, histamine etc. suggest that 'stress' (a definite unknown for each individual) is one of the main triggers so for what that's worth.

Dee~ ; )

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Dee wrote:

"I don't think Dr. G said there are no vestibular glands, but instead said that.... ''Vestibulitis has nothing to do with the glands"

I do not agree with Dr. G at all on this one. In regards to my diagnosis of VVS, it is the glands themselves that are directly at the root of my vulvar pain. When I have had the Q-Tip touch test and my bartholin glands as well as my minor vestibular glands are palpitated, it is there four glands that cause me the greatest amount of pain. Therefore there is no question in my mind that my VVS is directly caused by inflammation located either on, around and/or located right in these gland openings.