On the right track and almost there?

Lets start out with we have started to notice that all the PT and DR G recommend work has been making things go better.  Last Sunday we had really good sex that fell into the somewhat rigorous category and my wife was only sore after her climax, vs the normal sore for hours after.  So all and all it seamed like a really good night.

Jump to today, she had her 4th Dr G appointment and from the brief phone debrifing I got from her as she traveled to the airport it sounds like things went really well.  Dr G said that everything is looking really good and that, as my wife put it, he worked her over pretty good and there wasn't much pain.  He did diagnose her with an ongoing yeast infection.  It is a mild one (so mild my wife didn't even really notice it) but he has treated her in the past for it and it keeps coming back.  He said that this is common for people with her condition but he feels that the infection is what has been keeping her from completely healing up.  So he is putting her on a crazy long treatment for it that should wipe it out, also a diet modification.  But he also told her that this should resolve everything and that he believes this will be the last time he see's her.  I don't know that I believe that to be true yet, but at this point I am very optimistic as he has taken her from barely being able to sit and screaming at the thought of being touched to being able to have somewhat pleasurable sex again.  So if he can get the remaining pain to go away with this final treatment then I will be more than happy to have this be a very short term blog.

The Response

Well it has been a long time since I last posted.  So here is the update.  Dr G was speechless at the recommendations of the local doc's/specialists as he put it when he got to the point of having words is that the meds that they wanted to put my wife on are the same type that caused the pain in the first place, which to say the least he thought was a very bad idea.

On the plus side on my wife's last PT session her PT said that her tissue looks the best it has in the entire time she has been seeing my wife and she was able to increase the intensity of the exercises she has my wife doing.

On the down side my wife's pain level's have been up again before and after her period.  At this point I don't really like the idea of having the burn up the uterus surgery as I just don't know for sure that we are done having kids and the surgery is a very final decision on that option, not to mention there is not a guarantee that it will help just a chance it will.

So it has been a bit of a down month, I just try and remember that we are so much better off than we were in the past, but it is always hard when there is some regression in healing.

Anyway my wife is off to her next Dr G visit next week and it will be interesting to hear what his prognosis is and what he thinks the next step should be.

Also a question out there for those of you reading this, how do you cope with the differences in sexual desire/needs between you and your partner?