Can anyone tell me if vaginal dryness can cause stinging sharp pain just at the vaginal opening or just inside it close to the pelvic floor.
For personal reasons dealing with stress I lacked to take care of myslef for over 6 months and this meant forgetting my HRT patch,
I now am suffering form chronic dry eye for 6 months feels like glass in both my eyes and dry and blurred vision. Am wondering if vaginal dryness is also adding to my pudednal pelvic floor pain, or the sharp stinging i get just at the vaginal opening just inside it could this be from vaginal dryness due to low or no estrogen. the reason I ask is that my dr. or PT cannot locate where my sharp stinging sharp pain i coming from now for oer 6 weeks of therapy. so its either very deep and jcannot be found or I am wondering my own diagnosis VAGINL DRYNESS.
I am a past pudendal patient cured on one side not the other. PT ismaking me worse what does tha mean. 6 weeks of it and added symptoms did not have before.
I think the problem is a place they cannot get to. maybe i need a botox shot i dread injetins or a nerve block but he did expalin he could not give me a block especially when he could not recreate my pain. that makes sense as there is no real eidence there.
upon my own examination all I know is that upon pressure to the thick muscualr rim inside the vagina toward pelvic floor it aches horribly and then soon after a stinging pain. maybe its deep in the muscle I cannot sit at all now due to ache and stinging and i get it just moving around sometimes.
thestinging i got after laproscopic hysterectomy the same day same place just inside the vaginal opening and some stinging in the lower abdominal quadrant. are they related maybe?
1 year ago I had nothing and now this.
VAGINAL DRYNESS MENOPAUSAL
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I get bad dryness but it doesn't cause pain; only occasional bleeding because of the skin thinning.I use hormone pessaries once a week. I don't think such a short time without your HRT would cause dryness so quickly. You must get some artificial tears for the dry eyes though or you could get corneal damage. Are you on a lot of pain medications because some of those can cause dryness. I have sjogrens syndrome which causes dry eyes. mouth, nose, ears etc and can cause lots of other problems with muscles and even heart but not the stinging you describe. I wonder if it could be a nerve regenerating. I had two abdominal ops that left me with no sensation at all a long the scar for years but when the nerve started to recover or regrow or whatever they do, I use to get sharp stinging pains quite out of the blue. NO help I'm afraid just a few suggestions.
1985 diagnosed fibro; 1990 hysterectomy with bladder suspension;2000 T12 (Maigne ) syndrome; urticaria and angioedema; sjogrens syndrome; adhesions; pelvic pain; two herniated discs in neck.
Re: VAGINAL DRYNESS MENOPAUSAL
I agree with what Poppy says.
If you have not yet been to your doctor about the dry eyes, please do so as soon as possible, especially as you are getting blurred vision. Sight is much too precious to risk.
With regard to PT making you worse - some people do find this. You mention new symptoms developing - are you talking about the vaginal dryness and stinging which you mention?
Vaginal dryness can indeed cause pain, also with thinning of the skin there can be bleeding. However what you describe does not really sound quite like this, especially as your doctor has examined you and not noted any dryness or lack of tissue conditon.
With regard to your abdominal pain, lower quadrant, following laparoscopic hysterectomy, this sounds familiar to me. I have been having severe abdominal pain (lower right quadrant, in my case) following laparoscopic surgery last year. My surgeon has told me that this can happen after laparoscopic surgery, and that the pain can indeed be quite severe, and he was not surprised to hear that I had this problem especially as I had a pre-existing pain condition, ie PN. Could I suggest that you talk to your surgeon about this?
I would suggest also that as your vaginal stinging started at the same time as the abdo pain, following the lap hysterectomy, that they are indeed likely to be connected. Was any mesh used in your surgery?
If you have not yet been to your doctor about the dry eyes, please do so as soon as possible, especially as you are getting blurred vision. Sight is much too precious to risk.
With regard to PT making you worse - some people do find this. You mention new symptoms developing - are you talking about the vaginal dryness and stinging which you mention?
Vaginal dryness can indeed cause pain, also with thinning of the skin there can be bleeding. However what you describe does not really sound quite like this, especially as your doctor has examined you and not noted any dryness or lack of tissue conditon.
With regard to your abdominal pain, lower quadrant, following laparoscopic hysterectomy, this sounds familiar to me. I have been having severe abdominal pain (lower right quadrant, in my case) following laparoscopic surgery last year. My surgeon has told me that this can happen after laparoscopic surgery, and that the pain can indeed be quite severe, and he was not surprised to hear that I had this problem especially as I had a pre-existing pain condition, ie PN. Could I suggest that you talk to your surgeon about this?
I would suggest also that as your vaginal stinging started at the same time as the abdo pain, following the lap hysterectomy, that they are indeed likely to be connected. Was any mesh used in your surgery?