If there is a specific disease the relevant treatment will be provided. Chemical irritants in bath water or in underclothes should be avoided. Topical steroid creams may prove helpful.
Sometimes mild antidepressants such as amitriptyline 25 mg at night may assist with sleep and this often seems to alleviate symptoms. side effects, including fatigue, dizziness, dry mouth and constipation, tend to resolve after a couple of weeks. Increasing your fluid intake and changing to a high fibre diet overcome some of these problems. When an antidepressant is prescribed as part of the treatment for pain it does not mean that your doctor is attributing your pain to a psychological problem. The dose of an antidepressant used for pain is much lower than in the treatment of depression.
Related Medical Abstracts - Click on the paper title:-
- Surgical and behavioral treatments for vestibulodynia: two-and-one-half year follow-up and predictors of outcome.(2008-01)
- The vulval pain syndromes.(1999-01)
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- 1 What skin conditions may affect the vulva?
- 2 Which viral infections can affect the genitalia?
- 3 What problems can occur to people with herpes simplex?
- 4 What are genital warts?
- 5 What is lichen sclerosus?
- 6 How is lichen sclerosus treated?
- 7 What could be causing my vulval irritation?
- 8 How could my vulval irritation be treated?
- 9 What is a Bartholin's cyst / abscess?
- 10 How is a Bartholin's cyst / abscess treated?
- 11 What is vulvodynia?
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- 13 What is vestibulitis?
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