We happened upon this easy-to-read article on maintaining cervical health and found it to be a reasonable answer to the question of how often should a woman get a Pap smear. This is particularly relevant given the report in the September 2009 Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology suggesting some women can wait three years in …
Continue ReadingNew Treatment for vaginismus — botulinum toxin.
Our team just went up to New Hampshire to learn a new treatment for severe vaginismus from a wonderful Doctor. He (and his caring staff) have developed a procedure which uses general anesthesia and botulinum toxin in order to help women over the first, most frightening hurdle of treatment. When I am lecturing and trying …
Continue ReadingVaginismus.
If you’ve perused this website you know that vaginismus is a condition where there is involuntary spasm of the entry muscles to the vagina, causing either pain or, in extreme cases a complete inability to penetrate. I hope you also know that it’s very treatable and you shouldn’t’ t feel like you have to live …
Continue ReadingThe frustration of sex therapy.
I had a patient yesterday who has zero sex drive. Zero. She has never masturbated. She has never fantasized. She has never been turned on as far as she can tell. She is sad and frustrated and it is effecting her marriage. She spent the last two years on sex therapy. The first year was …
Continue ReadingIn sex therapy and treatment, sometimes just talking helps.
I’m often struck, when first meeting with patients, how much help they get just by talking. During the first appointment, when I get a history I feel like patients relax so much. It’s like they finally had a chance to tell the truth (sometimes for the first time) to someone who doesn’t judge, doesn’t think …
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