Re: Atropine

[Guest guest]

Hi Debbie and Everyone,

Thank you Debbie for bringing this up. I have been away from the

internet vulva pain community for several years now and I'm very

interested in atropine cream. It was not an option back then. Can you

or anyone else who has expierence with it tell me about their

expirences? How you use it and how much?

Blessings,

Shirley.

>

> In a message dated 9/15/04 12:53:08 PM,

VulvarDisorders

> writes:

>

> << As to how the Atropine works, " I " think it's this. >>

>

> If you ask a pharmacist, they say they have no idea how it works.

<ggg>

>

> Basically, for vvs it works to disrupt nerve signals to the brain -

just like

> Neurontin or Elavil. It also works on inflammation and is used in

eye drops

> for inflammation relating to the eye. For me, I've noticed

significant

> reduction in inflammation since I started using Atropine cream.

Within a few weeks

> I noticed S didn't have to push so hard to gain entrance to my

vagina. The

> longer I used it, the less pain I felt with intercourse.

>

> If I apply some right after intercourse, I avoid flares - which

intercourse

> used to bring about every time. Any post intercourse burning I

have disappears

> within an hour, usually in less than thirty minutes. The first day

I picked

> up the prescription, I applied Atropine right after intercourse. I

had a ton

> of after burning that night and I woke up pain free in the

morning. A first

> for me, usually the post sex burning would stay for days to weeks.

For the

> next two months, intercourse became less painful each time, to the

point that if

> my pain was a 10 prior to Atropine, it was down to a 2 or 3 during

> intercourse.

>

> A week before I'd been using Atropine for two months, I started

using the LCB

> treatment and after a week of LCB and Atropine, I had pain free sex

for the

> first time since vvs showed up in my life. Between the two, I've

been able to

> keep my vvs inflammation to a minimum and have pain free sex.

Unfortunately,

> I got carried away with the Atropine once I had pain free sex and

started

> using closer to the amount the prescription called for. That dried

out my arousal

> lubrication glands and it has taken months of cutting way back on

Atropine

> (once every other day instead of twice a day) to get my glands

working again.

> Atropine also dries up mucus and lubrication glands. Even though

I've cut way

> back on the Atropine, my inflammation has not increased much.

Until I got my

> arousal glands working again, I was back with painful sex again -

but not from

> my vvs.

>

> Debbie

> Tiger

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In a message dated 9/16/04 11:45:14 AM, VulvarDisorders

writes:

<< Thank you Debbie for bringing this up. I have been away from the

internet vulva pain community for several years now and I'm very

interested in atropine cream. It was not an option back then. Can you

or anyone else who has expierence with it tell me about their

expirences? How you use it and how much? >>

Hi Shirley,

Different doctors prescribe it differently and have it compounded in

different ways. Mine is compounded in sulfate and prescribed to be used twice a

day.

The amount I'm supposed to use is about five times more than I use. I just

use less than a TicTac amount and apply to where my vvs trigger area is. I now

use it once a day, every other day.

I did use it twice a day for three months, but it started drying up my

arousal glands lubrication. Atropine has a side effect of drying up mucus and

glands. Spaedt prescribes it to also be used with estrogen cream to try and

counter that, I don't know how well that works. I cut my Atropine usage back

and my

glands started working properly again. My chronic inflammation has stayed

under control.

The first day I picked up my prescription, I applied some right after sex.

Usually I would have post sex burning that would last days to a few weeks or

more. I woke up in the morning with no post sex burning. If I apply it after

sex, any burning I may have will be gone in 30-60 minutes.

After about four weeks of using it, I noticed that my boyfriend could slip

into my vagina - he didn't after to force his way in anymore. Sex was becoming

less painful too. After two months of using it, I had pain free sex for the

first time since I was developed with vvs. I also started using the Lidocaine

Cotton Ball treatment the week before I had pain free sex. Between the two,

I've kept my inflammation down and sex has been either pain free or a lot less

painful than it was prior to starting the Atropine cream over an year ago.

Atropine works in a couple of ways. It constricts blood vessels which reduce

inflammation and it disrupts nerve signals. The LCB treatment reduces

inflammation and retrains the nerves not to feel pain from non painful touches.

Searching the net for information about Atropine cream doesn't turn up much.

But there is information about it in the archives of this list.

Debbie

Tiger