Anybody here have vaginismus and take blood thinners?
As we all know penetration is already painful and difficult but in the past few years I had to start blood thinners (cannot go off them). A simple Pap smear caused me to lightly bleed for two weeks while doctors tried to safely find a way to stop it without disrupting my blood thinner (not many safe meds I can take now).
I’m worried that if I try even dilators (or piv), I’ll be bleeding all the time. It’s causing even more worry to where I don’t want anything in or near me including my gyno.
The doctors don’t listen or answer questions, they just say I let it go to long from no use and I’m just super tight BUT an old obgyn I had told me it was vaginismus and gave me my first set of dilators but she long since retired,the one after her retired so now I have a new one again. This has been an issue with me since I entered puberty and found I could not insert tampons without pain or getting them all the way in. I’m now entering peri menopause, on blood thinners now and feel like a lost cause-like this is my life now till I die. My poor husband has been a saint with this and I’m shocked he even stuck around, but one never knows what’s being done behind one’s back.
I already felt broken and now I have to worry about bleeding and I don’t know how to reconcile this. I feel like this new worry has made things worse. Even in my blood thinner support group there are tons of married woman talking about sexual problems after being on them, the bleeding and most of them can have actual piv.
I’m kinda curious if there is anybody else like me out there and how you are managing both?