My heart goes out to you. We do all have very similar issues, and I may be able to help some... I really hope at least somewhat because my sympathy for your story is soo strong. I have a busy work project this week, but as soon as it's done, I would like to talk/write to you more personally. Doctors make me furious too! I'm actually considering going to med school still.. just to help women like us.
Very briefly- it does sound like you're definitely experiencing a hormone imbalance if your periods are wonky. Whether it's related to your other v-pains is debatable, but if I had to guess.. I would say yes. I have been studying hormones very precisely for a while now, but of course I'm no doctor so I can only provide you with all the details I've found. I've found some AMAZING vitamins that have helped heaps in rebalancing my cycle, my pain, and my life. "Women to women" or NewChapter... each help in diff ways.. I can give you more details later... esp about the hormone intricacies and attach charts I've dug up over time. Please email me at (personal email address removed by EmpowHER moderator. EmpowHER provides a private email system with the site so that visitors who register can communicate with each other in a private manner.)
The clitoral pain is interesting, and although I didn't address it in my story... I actually experienced this for only 2 months. As you may be, I was surprised to see other women with this problem because it seems so unique/different than normal symptoms.. but if you check out: http://curetogether.com/Vulvodynia/1430/_symptom/ they describe very similar experiences to yours (or maybe you have seen or commented there yourself already?). You can also see the statistics for how many women experience that by clicking on the stats page of: http://curetogether.com/Vulvodynia/_symptom/
Surprisingly a lot! But my doctor never told me about that either!!!
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To prev 26yr old woman who wrote on Apr 19:
My heart goes out to you. We do all have very similar issues, and I may be able to help some... I really hope at least somewhat because my sympathy for your story is soo strong. I have a busy work project this week, but as soon as it's done, I would like to talk/write to you more personally. Doctors make me furious too! I'm actually considering going to med school still.. just to help women like us.
Very briefly- it does sound like you're definitely experiencing a hormone imbalance if your periods are wonky. Whether it's related to your other v-pains is debatable, but if I had to guess.. I would say yes. I have been studying hormones very precisely for a while now, but of course I'm no doctor so I can only provide you with all the details I've found. I've found some AMAZING vitamins that have helped heaps in rebalancing my cycle, my pain, and my life. "Women to women" or NewChapter... each help in diff ways.. I can give you more details later... esp about the hormone intricacies and attach charts I've dug up over time. Please email me at (personal email address removed by EmpowHER moderator. EmpowHER provides a private email system with the site so that visitors who register can communicate with each other in a private manner.)
April 19, 2009 - 2:11pmThe clitoral pain is interesting, and although I didn't address it in my story... I actually experienced this for only 2 months. As you may be, I was surprised to see other women with this problem because it seems so unique/different than normal symptoms.. but if you check out: http://curetogether.com/Vulvodynia/1430/_symptom/ they describe very similar experiences to yours (or maybe you have seen or commented there yourself already?). You can also see the statistics for how many women experience that by clicking on the stats page of: http://curetogether.com/Vulvodynia/_symptom/
Surprisingly a lot! But my doctor never told me about that either!!!
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