Vulvodynia “Talking Points”
Vulvodynia “Talking Points”
► Vulvodynia is chronic burning pain in the vulva (a woman’s external genital area), without an identifiable cause.
► Symptoms of vulvodynia are very similar to those experienced with a yeast infection, and range from moderate to incapacitating, where women are bed-ridden with excruciating pain.
► Many women with vulvodynia are unable to have sexual intercourse, or engage in any sexual activity, because it is too painful.
► Six million American women currently suffer from vulvodynia according to a study conducted at Harvard University and supported by the National Institutes of Health.1
► Women of all ages and ethnic backgrounds suffer from vulvodynia.1
► Sixty percent of women visit three or more doctors to get a diagnosis.1
► Forty percent of women remain undiagnosed, even after visiting this many
providers.1
► Vulvodynia has been the focus of three national conferences at the National Institutes of Health.
► The National Institutes of Health have awarded over $10 million dollars in recent years to fund new research on the condition.
1Harlow, BL and Stewart, EG, A population-based assessment of chronic unexplained vulvar pain: have we underestimated the prevalence of vulvodynia? Journal of the American Medical Women’s Association, 2003;58:82-88.
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