u/PositiveRow1842

Hi. I have felt painful/tingling/fullness/“arousal” sensations in my clit for a week now. It is extremely sensitive and I feel it all the time, it is sore to the touch. This started the morning after a long period of masturbation one night. Went to the doctor and got prescribed lidocaine 5% cream. It does not help. Also got prescribed amitriptyline but scared to start it as it has many side effects and I don’t know how I feel about changing my brain. I am scared. Life has felt like hell and it’s only been a week. I’ve had suicidal thoughts. I have a loving boyfriend, best friend, and parents and I feel so terrible for feeling so awful and putting them all through this with me. When I google anything about any of these conditions, especially on Reddit, all I read are horrible stories of people never recovering, nothing ever helping, life being this way forever. It makes me cry and feel hopeless. I am begging anybody who has any success or recovery stories to please share and help me and others like me going through this experience find hope in the darkness. Thank you.

Hi there I am 25F and have been experiencing this for 2 days now. I woke up with the feeling the other day - feeling “arousal” symptoms in my clit, pressure, throbbing, discomfort. I made myself cum multiple times to try get rid of the feeling but it made no difference. For context I have genital herpes, which I’ve googled can sometimes cause this? I’ve had this for 4 years and just recently had an outbreak in a different place on my perineum which is abnormal for me. I also have had a porn and masturbation addiction since 12. The night before it started I had a long masturbation session - about 3 hours. Have I done this to myself? Will it ever go away?

Google does nothing but scare me. I also am in the UK and it doesn’t seem like there is much support here for this condition. I know you guys can’t help instantly but I am scared and confused and very uncomfortable. I feel like I can’t face my family or do anything normal because my mind is in my clit. Do you people have any advice? Please I am desperate, as someone having this sensation for the first time and with no support. Do you think this feeling could go away? Or am I doomed to have this forever? I feel like I’ve lost some of my childlike innocence, and my body is violating me.