Itching after sex

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Registered: 01-21-2005
Itching after sex
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Tue, 01-17-2006 - 12:41pm
I went to my gyno. in July '05 due to some vaginal discharge and itching. She diagnosed me with cervicitis. She gave me some pills to take and that cured it. But now I have noticed every time my husband and I have sex, I have an itch in the vulva area that lasts about 2 days. The itching does not start until a day later. Like if we have sex that night then it will start after I bathe in the morning. The itching does not happen during sex at all. I use vaginal cream and that usually makes it stop itching. And I will be fine with no symptoms whatsoever as long as I don't have sex. But once I do, the itch starts again. It's to the point that I don't want to have sex at all. My husband is having no symptoms whatsoever. There is no discharge from my vaginal area at all that is associated with the itch. It seems that his penis somehow irritates my skin...but I have no bumps or rash so I don't think it's an STD and I don't believe he's ever cheated on me. This just started within the last year.


Edited 1/17/2006 12:46 pm ET by lady_tnkrbell
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Registered: 12-30-2003
Tue, 01-17-2006 - 4:11pm

Hi lady_tnkrbell, welcome!

Think back to July of 05 when your problem first started. Had you stopped or started any medicines or supplements or made any significant diet changes? Or did you start using a different method of birth control? Hormonal contraceptives can sometimes make the cervix more sensitive to irritation. If you use condoms you could be allergic to latex or any spermicide that is on them or spermicide that you are using additionally. Or, and this is unlikely, but, you may have become allergic to your husband’s semen.

If you still have cervicitis there is usually a trigger or you could have chronic cervicitis that can last for quite some time. For a good article about cervicitis see: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001495.htm

You could try some things yourself to see if you can isolate the problem, such as:

• If you aren’t now using latex condoms you could try some that are not lubricated with spermicide and see if that makes any difference. Be sure to use a water based lube like Astroglide if you need more lube because oil based lubes will rapidly deteriorate latex.
• Or if you are using latex condoms switch to polyurethane ones and see if that makes any difference.

I think you should let your doctor know what’s going on and see what s/he advises. I think it would also be a good idea to be tested for STDs just to absolutely rule that possibility out.

Thanks for posting. If you have more questions, please ask. Please let us know how you’re doing, ok?

Good luck,

      Jill