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Painful sex is a seldom talked about, but frequent problem in women. Generally speaking painful sex, also called dysparunia ,  as women age is due to VVA , the most prominent symptom of what is now more accurately called genitourinary syndrome (GUS) of menopause. It is due to lower levels of estrogen, and decreasing male hormones, even those of the adrenal gland. Making use of the fact that adrenal hormones themselves can affect the vaginal tissue, and the fact that some of the male hormones are converted to estrogen there is now a new treatment, DHEA that has been shown to be effective according to a new study published in Menopause . The pH of the vagina and the lining of the vagina are the first things to change, and in fact there can be secondary frequent infections that can be causing the actual quick onset of significant pain with sex. To some extent the routine treatments for infection will offer some help won't work as well unless the underlying hormonal problem of VV...

For women unable to have intercourse because of pin, Botox is a new and effective treatment. For most women they can safely have one treatment and they are cured. For others repeat treatments have to be undertaken every 3-6 months. For most women gynecologists expect the treatment course to be self limiting and not need to go on for years. The Botox relaxes abnormally tightened muscles and makes both intercourse and using tampons possible for women who suffer from Vaginismus. Vaginismus is a painful condition that involves such tight muscle contractions that women are unable to have comfortable intercourse. Vaginismus has many origins: fear of painful intercourse, prior surgery, prior infections with painful intercourse, painful intercourse from endometriosis as well as psychological. It is not known if some women have naturally abnormally tight musculature or abnormal nerve firing that causes it, and in some cases it is a condition that occurs prior to a woman ever having sex, a...