Vulvodynia is one of those conditions that takes years to get diagnosed, if it gets diagnosed at all. Most of my patients who come in with this have already seen multiple doctors. They've been told the pain is in their head, handed a prescription for a topical cream that didn't do much, maybe referred to a pelvic floor physical therapist. Some of them have stopped having sex. Some of them can't sit through a full workday without being in pain. Some of them are just quietly ma
