Women, why do your private parts hurt?

Chronic vulvodynia is more common among women in their twenties and thirties. Symptoms include burning, itching, swelling, and stinging in the vagina and sometimes even pain around the rectum. People with vulvodynia usually experience pain during intercourse, but sometimes it can occur in completely unexpected circumstances.

According to statistics from the National Vulvodynia Research Association, these patients generally have seen more than seven doctors before finally discovering the problem before receiving the correct diagnosis and treatment. But because so little research has been done on vulvodynia, many family physicians and gynecologists don't know how to test for the condition, let alone how to treat it.

Fortunately, experts are conducting more and more research on the human body, which provides doctors with more abundant reference information for their diagnosis.

Objectively speaking, our current understanding of chronic vulvodynia is still very limited. Therefore, gynecology has not yet established routine examination methods for chronic vulvodynia. Sometimes, inflammation of the vulva can be observed with the naked eye, but there are many problems that cannot be diagnosed by observing changes in the vulvar skin. Doctors generally use the method of elimination to analyze the causes of vulvar pain, such as whether the patient has a sexually transmitted disease, a skin disease, etc.

Because the cause of vulvodynia is still unclear, doctors who are desperate to help their patients but are at a loss for what to do may prescribe a wide range of medications, from antibiotics to antifungals to steroids.

Experts remind that the treatment of chronic vulvar pain is a matter that varies from person to person. If you have symptoms of pain, be sure to ask a professional doctor to make a diagnosis, find out the cause of the pain, and then develop a reasonable treatment plan.

Solutions for lower abdominal pain:

Take action: Gynecologists can understand the condition by touching the lower abdomen and determine whether there is an ovarian cyst.

How to treat: If an ultrasound shows an ovarian cyst that appears to be cancerous or is too large, your doctor may recommend surgery to remove it.