My wife had reoccurring yeast infections when she was late teens and early twenties and had been on birth control since she was 16 due to very heavy and irregular periods. So I’m going to run through all the fun stuff we have tried over the last 10+ years and I’ll try and be quick about it as reading medical history is not a ton of fun, not that anything to do with this issue is any fun either. So to take care of the yeast infections it was all about over the counter creams which burned, this was just before the oral yeast pill that works great! We also tried just about every birth control pill on the market to see if she had become intolerant to the one she was on. We also went to just about every gyno we could find as well a gyno/dermatologist team which took a close look at her tissue. Everyone said, we don’t see anything wrong you look healthy. We got some of the it must be in your head statements. At this point we were becoming desperate, so we even tried alternative medicine (Asian Medicine). My wife was given what I call a bunch of ingredients for a high end tea, to soak her lady parts in. Needless to say it didn’t help any, and it wasn’t even some of the really nice smelling tea :-)
To start with my wife’s desire level stayed just as high as it was before the pain, but each time it didn’t feel good she would be disappointed and frustrated. As time went on she went from multiple times a day to once or twice a week, and each time it hurt the next time she would initiate would be a little further out. Eventually it got so bad that penetration was barely possible. While this was going on it is important to note that other forms of stimulation were still pleasurable to my wife it was just the penetration that was painful.
