Burning sensation during sex

First of all- hello ladies!

Second of all.... same boat as the bloody lot of you and I am HATING it!

I'm 25 and otherwise healthy. For me, it all started about 7 months ago.. I had what I considered to be a difficult to deal with thrush infection. It was initially causing bad burning during and after my boyfriend and I had sex, and pain near the edges of my vagina. Then progressed to itching and burning and occasional pain. After a while of treatment not working, I had myself tested for every STD possible and also did a papsmear. Big fat nothing! How is that possible we are all screaming!? I then went to the gynaecologist for answers as sex was also becoming painful, a kind of deep pain on my right hand side.. she put me on a minimum of one month of fluconazole, which did help reduce the infection and itchiness... but dried me out completely, and turned my sex drive to 0%... I even flinch when my boyfriend tries to touch me now. So here we are now- young, dry, unhappily unhorny and with no clue about what's going on!!!!

Any advice ladies? This needs to end for all of us.. if someone finds a successful treatment, drinks are on me!!!

I finally got to the bottom of what my problem was after it not going away. My progesterone dominant birth control pill (Drospirenone 3mg/Ethinyl Estradiol .03 mg) was kicking out my natural estrogen. Since I am with a guy in his early 20s, (and I am in my early 40s) we have a lot of sex and the drop in estrogen was affecting my vaginal tissues. I had to get compounded estrogen cream prescribed to me that is applied directly to the vag. Another approach we could have explored would be to switch to an estrogen dominant birth control pill, for a systemic estrogen benefit- but I have been taking this daily tablet non stop (no periods) for four years and my skin has never been clearer, and my PMS symptoms are almost non existent. (there is always one funny week per month where I am more bloated, a little more emotional and eat more- and I can only assume that would be my 'cycle week' that my body is still trying to impose upon me despite my taking the pill non stop). Anyway, this estrogen cream was my remedy. We are back to good sex! Praise God and modern medicine! But, you know what? It was the post on here where someone scared me to death about VIN3 that got the fire under my ass (instead of just my poor vag) to finally go to the gyno and get evaluated!!! Thanks to whoever posted that. You indirectly saved our relationship. My guy brings me such joy and I love having him to love in my life.

So I had to come back to this discussion. I read it a few months ago when I had similar symptoms. Since January, I had three UTI's back to back (so we thought). I had an ultrasound of my kidneys and such, saw a urologist only to find out he didn't think what I had was UTI's because it was a staph based bacteria that was found in the cultures. During that time, I was also treated for BV and then a yeast infection. This all happened in a 4-5 month period. I was never really the same after that and was treated for returning yeast infections several times after. Before all of this, I had never had these types of problems. We tried changing condone, toilet paper, diet. Nothing worked.  I had many similar symptoms, especially with the burning during intercourse. I have finally found a supplement that makes me feel normal again. It's Yeast Cleansing by Solaray. I take half the recommended dose. I've been taking it almost a month and I feel great. I promised myself I would come back and post here because no one should have to live with the discomfort expressed here. It might not help everyone here, but maybe even one can benefit like I have. Good luck! Thanks for posting here and helping me feel less alone during this process.

Tell me what happened? Did you cure it? How did you do it? It’s been 5 months for me I hate it

Hello, i’m Selena. 

I have been having the same situation on and off but it has gotten worse this past month. I have been trying to conceive and I did get a bad yeast infection, and i have not had sex since last month just in case. And once i tried again, burning. No other symptoms. 

Has anyone figured out why? Or maybe how to get treated? 

I'm 22 it all started in the month of may. I started to notice that im having this thick lump like discharge frequently with some fishy odour... So I took some medication and it would stopped for some days but would continue after some weeks and when every my boyfriend and I tried to have sex there would be this nasty looking white thing around his penis and it makes me so uncomfortable that im afraid to have sex now. And this discharge won't go away even after medication m so worried.

Hi! Also a sufferer of intense burning sensation during and after sex. Pulling my hair out because this is driving me absolutely crazy.

I seem to have recurring BV, in that the doctor prescribes me Flagyl but the symptoms never seem to dissipate. It's like I always have BV!! And for me, even with plenty of lube it still hurts like like an absolute mofo, condoms or not...also on the pill, Yasmin.

The pain starts as soon as he enters, and it's so intense initially. Then it sort of subsides and I can ultimately enjoy the sex...but when I go to the loo after finishing, my god, the burning pain is awful sometimes. Sometimes there are a few specks of blood too, but it's usually just the burning pain that bothers me the most. Sometimes I just have to sit on the toilet until it goes away, or even take painkillers. And sometimes, it will still be very tender the next day, any time I wipe down there after going to the toilet.

I'm just at my wits end, because I know if I go back to the doc again, she'll just test for the BV and prescribe the same course of antibiotics. I might see if she can refer me to a gynaecologist.

We will get this sorted though, it's 2017!! No way such a common problem can go undiagnosed for so long! 😑

HOnestly what I did was get off the pill and start using pads when on my period it’s been two months and sex is becoming normal again. I think the pill doesn’t let the virus go away totally that’s what I believe 

Are you having any other symptoms such as burning w no sex, itching, discharge, tingling sensation, etc?

I’ve had this problem over a year now and my partner and I have tried literally everything. Nothing seems to help or get rid of the problem. After countless tests and even and operation to look inside I still have no answers, the last thing the doctor said is that it must be all in my head and is referred pain after having the infection.