Pain with intercourse

[Guest guest]

Hello - I am wondering whether there are any women on this list who

experience pain with intercourse, but otherwise do not have pain or

irritation? I have extreme burning, stinging pain with intercourse

that I've had for almost eight years now. I cannot have intercourse

anymore. This alone is a devastating problem for me. But, I know

that there are many of you on this list for whom this problem is only

one of many other life altering symptoms. I am so sorry for all of

us for every level of pain and emotional stress that it causes. From

most of the e-mails I read, I'm not sure if there are others with the

same set of symptoms I have or if I am a different case than most of

you because I don't experience constant pain or irritation. I want

to be in the right place as far as the vulvar pain support groups. I

don't want to be asking irrelevant questions or making anyone feel

like I should consider myself lucky to have just the problems that I

have.

I am confused because so many of you say that you have been diagnosed

with vulvar vestibulitis, as have I, but what you describe is much

more extensive than what I am experiencing. I guess that vv could be

a general term that describes pain/inflammation in the vulva without

regard to intensity or duration. If that's the case, it's not very

helpful to me because the range of symptoms we talk about as related

to vv is so broad that I can't figure out what information is

relevant to me.

Please feel free to e-mail me offline or respond to the group - I'd

just like to know if there are others out there who are experiencing

something similar to me or if I'm a different case than most of the

people following this group.

Thanks -

Sally