Re: Multiplte vaginal cuts

From: dahmd@gate.net
Wed Oct 16 11:32:12 1996


In article Douglas Krell <sfth@roadrunner.com> writes:

>I have a patient, and many more that I can think of... who report
>vaginal burning with intercourse. They all say "It feels like multiple
>vaginal cuts...and it stings!"

Doug-

I also encounter a few patients a year with this complaint, and the workup you described is also negative. One of my Family Practice colleagues suggested that I ask the patients if their partners have a lot of hair on the shaft of the penis. My first thought was "yeah, right" but, sure enough, the patients reported that there *is* a lot of penile hair. Perhaps the hair is causing fine, linear lacerations that burn. I switched them to K-Y type lubricant (it's thick and water soluble) rather than lotion or other lubricants, and that seemed to solve the problem in my admittedly small "series" of patients.

I suppose the husband could consider shaving the penis, but I sincerely doubt that most men (myself included) would be comfortable with sharp objects coming too close to "Mr.Happy"!

Good luck.

Ashley D. Ashley Hill, M.D. dahmd@gate.net





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