Re: vaginal pain
From: Elaine (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue Nov 26 19:36:44 2002
At Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Kimberly wrote:
>
Hi I have a small tear in my periumin area from child birth, which will
tear open from time to time. I use a little bit of A and D oinment to
protect it. It does help with pain when/if urine should hit that spot.
Elaine
>http://www.mum.org/tamsafty.htm
>
>This is a website that I used to do a lot of research when I was trying to
>make a decision on whether or not to use tampons after my endo diagnosis.
>Ultimately, I ordered a whole reuseable "system" from Many Moons. Partly,
>it appealed to my spiritual side. Partly, it was to avoid any dioxin
>exposure, no matter how small. Partly, it was because tampons put unwanted
>pressure on what I now know were endo lesions. But mostly, I found out that
>the string in tampons is a breeding ground for staph. I have suffered with
>cyclic and recurring staph infections of the skin for years. Since cutting
>tampons out of my monthly cycle, I have not had one bout of staph. YAAY!!!
>
>Kim
>
>>>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ilene" <anonymous@obgyn.net>
>To: "Multiple recipients of list ENDO" <anonymous@obgyn.net>
>Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 8:59 PM
>Subject: Re: vaginal pain
>
>> I am not a doctor but have experienced the odd abrehsion or little
>> sore pimple in the vaginal area. My advice to you is to stop using
>> tampons as inserting them will irritate it further. Use a pad instead,
>> they
>> so make them very thin now so you won't be that uncomfortable with it
>> on. Also
>> is have used a little antibiotic ointment such as polysporin on the spot
>> that is irritated. It will protect the area from stinging while
>> urinating and protect a little from infection and help it heal quicker.
>> Also you might want to rethink the whole tampon thing. Materials used
>> for making tampons are bleached, which means they can contain harmful
>> dioxins which can have a negative affect on you reproductive health as
>> well as your overall health. I read an article that supports this
>> claim. Wish I had the site where it was posted but it was a few months
>> back. I stopped using them becuz of it and didn't want to aggrevate my
>> endo any further. Hope this helps you.
>>
>> At Mon, 25 Nov 2002, m.a.m wrote:
>> >
>> >i have recently discovered a small deep open cut on the inner lip to my
>> >vagina it is EXTREMELY!!! painful to urinate PLEASE help , is there
>> >anything i can do to ease the pain , even putting in a tampon hurts, but
>> >since i bleed heavily i need to still wear one will having my period
>> >affect healing time as well as the irritation i recieve while urinating?
>>
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Elaine Harris
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