Feeling despondent
I had finally gotten to a really good and manageable place with my IC and then I was intimate with my husband two weeks ago for his birthday (it had been a really long time bc I’m always petrified). We didn’t use any lube (huge mistake obviously) and now for the past two weeks I have been in agony!!! I went to urgent care 8 days into the pain and the doc said it was a UTI but I was suspicious cause it really didn’t feel like one, but was in so much pain I was hoping that was it. I finished the antibiotics today and the pain is still aweful. The worst part is that my vestibule (the entrance of the vagina) has been burning so badly and I cannot get it under control. I’m using ice, sitz baths and Tylenol with codeine, plus AZO on and off and am at an absolute loss for what to do. I was hoping with time this would improve but tomorrow is two weeks and I’m no better off than I was the day it started. I’m feeling so despondent and don’t know where to go from here. I don’t have an active urologist anymore cause they just wanted to keep doing bladder instillations which ended up making things 100% worse at the time 😢. Should I try and get into my gynecologist? Any other tips?