{"id":902,"date":"2008-07-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/condition-sexual-health-woman-discovers-cause-of-sexual-pain-a-uniquely-shaped-hymen\/"},"modified":"2008-07-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T00:00:00","slug":"condition-sexual-health-woman-discovers-cause-of-sexual-pain-a-uniquely-shaped-hymen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/condition-sexual-health-woman-discovers-cause-of-sexual-pain-a-uniquely-shaped-hymen\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Discovers Cause of Sexual Pain: A Uniquely Shaped Hymen"},"content":{"rendered":"
Deborah (not her real name) finally found an explanation for years of sexual pain when she learned from her doctor that an abnormal hymen was probably to blame. The 41-year-old New York City lawyer was relieved to have a diagnosis; she has had problems inserting anything in her vagina for as long as she can remember. Tampons are hard enough, but a speculum? "It's like I see stars," she says. "It really hurts!"<\/p>\n
Deborah is a lesbian, so her problem hasn't affected her sex life as much as it might have. "If I were straight, it would be a huge problem," she says. It has certainly affected her health care, though. "I actually avoided getting Pap smears<\/a>," she admits. "I would let years go by because it hurt so much."<\/p>\n It was a fertility doctor who theorized, at long last, that the pain might be caused by something different about her genitals. She had never been told she had a physical abnormality; he described it as an extra band of tissue in her vagina, perhaps an especially thick hymen.<\/p>\n My Sexual Pain Felt Like Shards of Glass<\/p>\n "It was a relief to find out there was some physical weirdness that caused it," Deborah says. "People were saying that I was too sensitive."<\/p>\n For now, Deborah says she is not pursuing treatment, which typically involves surgery. If you receive a similar diagnosis, experts say to get a second opinion from a sexual medicine doctor before pursuing surgical treatment; your pain might be caused by other issues that cannot be resolved with surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Deborah (not her real name) finally found an explanation for years of sexual pain when she learned from her doctor that an abnormal hymen was probably to blame. The 41-year-old New York City lawyer was relieved to have a diagnosis; she has had problems inserting anything in her vagina for as long as she can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,59],"tags":[37,61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} christin-veasley<\/span> More about women's sexual dysfunction<\/p>\n
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