Improvement after sex

Hi

I have since being sexually active suffered with bouts of UTIs and Thrush. After my last bout of thrush and use of canestan I started to get random flare ups of burning at least once a day for about 2 hours (there seemed to be no trigger). I visited a specialist who prescribed lidocaine which I used for about two months. During this time I was too scared to have sex because I read tht it was painful for people with vulvodynia. Last week I mustered up the courage to try to have sex again and after that I have not hd the burning again. I am really confused because I can't find anything online on this. Does anyone know what this could mean? I am so glad the symptoms have gone but I also would like to understand what happened.

Thanks

Did you have pain between finishing the course of lidocaine and resuming sex? If not, maybe the lidocaine did what it was supposed to and broke the pain cycle.

I used lidocaine for about 3 months and at no point did it stop. I really don't think it was the lidocaine. The day after I had sex I never got the burning and haven't had it for a whole week and a few days now. Before sex I hd burning every single day without fail. I'm just wondering if something was dislodged!?!

Jadefeather,

I had a similar situation this past month. I had a bad reaction to some toilet paper I had been using and thought it had flared up my old vulvodynia symptoms. Still a little sore, but it's been getting better slowly. BUT I had sex twice over the weekend and every time made it feel like it was helping the irritation go away? So strange. I felt like maybe my muscles had gotten tensed up from the pain and having sex helped loosen up the tightness I had been experiencing. I'm not really sure about that though. I may ask my gyno about that next time I go in. I could also be related to the amount of estrogen going to that area of your body.. maybe? Not sure, but I'm glad your pain isn't bothering you so much!

-Jen

Thanks Jen. Good to know I'm not the only one. It's obviously great that the symptoms have gone but also quite confusing. I plan to see my specialist soon to discuss. I happened to come accross some information about endometriosis and started to wonder it was something like that.
Before giving me lidocaine the doctor did say something about how nerves can keep sending pain signals to the brain erroneously and maybe sex has done something to those nerves.
I have no idea! I am very curious though