Re: Digest Number 2477/Debbie

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Your messages sound like you are in the medical field. Are you a

doctor or nurse or have a medical background?

Vulvodynia is " pain in the vulva " http://www.vulvodynia.com So, if

you have a yeast infection or bacteria or anything else that causes

pain in the vulva, you have vulvodynia. It can be acute or chronic

depending on cause. If you find a cure, then you no longer have

vulvodynia. Using the definition above, Robin's yeast infection

caused her vulvodynia. She was given that diagnosis from one of the

top 3 vulvar specialists. I would hope he knows vulvodynia.

I am not sure what your definition of vv/vvs is but if you mean

vestibulitis (vv meaning vulvar vestibulitis or vvs meaning vulvar

vestibulitis syndrome) then vv/vvs is a subset of vulvodynia (pain in

the vulva)with pain at the opening of the vagina. This one is harder

to cure/treat. However, many women have been cured both of Vulvodynia

and Vestibulitis. This meaning, their symptoms went away and have

not returned.

Maybe some of our ideas of " curable " are different. To me it means

that the problem goes away. If it goes away, than I consider it

cured for as long as it is gone.

The Websters dictionary says:

" Cure: 1) A means to healing or restoring to health; remedy. 2) A

method or course of remedial treatment as for disease. 3) Successful

remedial treatment: restoration to health. "

Everyone needs to have hope of a cure. We just have to find what the

cure will be.

Lynn

<<You aren't looking in the right places. There have been quite a few

that have been cured when treated for long term yeast.>>

> Then the person did not have vv/vvs, the person had an yeast

infection.

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> Debbie

> Tiger