Vaginismus is a female sexual illness

It is known that a certain percentage of women who live sexually, suffer from all sorts of diseases of an intimate nature. For some, it can be an inflammatory process, or venereal disease, for others, the disease can be caused by psychological factors. The most common disease caused by a variety of external factors, is vaginismus, also called vulvism, colpospasms or sexual neurosis. This disease affects about 2-3% of women, and it can overtake, regardless of age.

Applicable to sexual relations, this disease acts as a reflex protection before copulation (penetration). It manifests itself in the involuntary reduction of the thighs, contraction of the muscles of the vagina and in spite of, involuntary, protective reactions of the organism. It happens that after a lapse of time, this disease recedes by itself, but there is a danger that if you do not take measures in time, it will develop into a female "impotence", prescribed by virgogamy.

Causes of the disease

The proven fact is that the main cause of the appearance of vaginismus are psychological disorders such as stress, neuroses and the like. In the stressful state and neuroses, vaginism is only a protective reaction of the body, but not a fear of sexual relations as such. Such a reaction can occur not only in the intimate sphere, it is also possible to aggravate various somatic diseases.

With stress and other nervous-obsessive conditions, vaginism is a kind of phobia, in other words, associated with fear of examination in a gynecologist or with a fear of intimacy. This disease is typical of very hypochondriacal Ipsychologically unsustainable women, or women who have had unsuccessful experiential relationships, accompanied by unpleasant and painful sensations that could be associated with other diseases and inflammations, or inept treatment from the sexual partner.

Very often, the cause of vaginismus can be sexual violence, forced marriage, hostility to a partner or his impotence, in which he blames his partner.

Most often, women suffer from vaginismus, in whom, after the first and subsequent sexual acts, the hymen remains intact, but it does not exclude the possibility of the disease in women who live long in marriage, and even those who have given birth, in this case only the causes that cause the disease change.

Treatment of the disease

Treatment of vaginismus should be comprehensive, it is conducted by the doctors of different specializations: gynecologists, sexologists, psychologists and proctologists. Initially, it is necessary to find out the cause of the disease, then start therapy.

Treatment, as well as the possibility of the onset of the disease, can be varied from a general anti-inflammatory treatment, to a more local one.

In the treatment of true vaginismus actively taking psihologi, using in the treatment of such methods as hypnosis, training and explanatory conversations, to communicate with a psychologist also follows the sexual partner of the patient, tk. a situation may arise where the cause of the origin of the disease will have to be combated together.

Very often, women suffering from vaginismus are advised for prophylactic purposes to undergo a course of relaxing exercises.

During the treatment of vaginismus, the patient prescribes the antidepressants and tranquilizers, which will not only make the patient's information more sensitive to the patient's need, the painlessness of the examination by the gynecologist, but also impair the pain.

If the cause of vaginismus is the integrity of the hives, it is destroyed through microsurgical intervention.

Prognosis for the treatment of disease

Most often, the treatment of vaginismus brings positive results. The woman regains her sexual life, and her psychological state is established. In the future, women who have suffered from vaginism, even give birth to children. If, however, the disease has not receded - this means that the cause of the occurrence was a complex, psychological trauma.