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Burning pain during sex, bv treatment didn't help?
About 9 months ago my boyfriend and I started having sex (first time for both of us). I wasn't on birth control so we exclusively used condoms. Then after about 3 months I started taking birth control (the pill). Prior to getting on birth control I had never experienced any kind of pain during sex at all (excluding the first time). After getting on birth control I start experiences a little bit of discomfort that I attributed to just being drier/less natural lubrication. I also had some pelvic pain occasionally, and my doctor decided to switch me to a higher dosage of birth control. That seemed to help with the dryness and pelvic pain, but after a few weeks a began to experience a slight burning pain during sex. I also would sometimes get very itchy down there, so I assumed it was a yeast infection and treated it with monostat. The next time I had sex I didn't have any burning pain, but when we had sex again the burning pain came back. So I went to the doctor and she said it looked like I had slight bv as well as there being yeast present, so she put me on antibiotics and gave me medicine for the yeast. She also suggested that my boyfriend switch to using unscented soap, since I have had an allergic reaction to scented soap as well as laundry detergent. Unfortunately, the pain was still there even after the medicine and my boyfriend switching to unscented soap. The doctor had the lab do a culture and it came back normal so now we're going to try intravaginal steroids to see if that helps.
Has anyone else had an issue like this? It just feels like I'm running out of things to try to fix this and the pain is pretty intense so my sex life is basically non existence. Especially since my boyfriends is now terrified of hurting me and doesn't want to continue if it hurts me at all. Pretty frustrating since this has been going on for several months now. Could it have something to do with being on birth control? Maybe there's still something that I'm having an allergic reaction too??
Has anyone else had an issue like this? It just feels like I'm running out of things to try to fix this and the pain is pretty intense so my sex life is basically non existence. Especially since my boyfriends is now terrified of hurting me and doesn't want to continue if it hurts me at all. Pretty frustrating since this has been going on for several months now. Could it have something to do with being on birth control? Maybe there's still something that I'm having an allergic reaction too??
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I would keep working with your doctor. BV is hard to eradicate and actually, sometimes a male partner will also need to be treated as it can pass back and forth. I'd go back to your doctor, have any discharge swabbed and see what they feel the next step is. good luck
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