help, pain peeing for 5 months
Hey everyone, I’m really desperate and hoping someone has experienced something similar or can help me.
Five months ago I had a yeast infection and bacterial vaginosis, which unfortunately went untreated for too long. After about four weeks, and with the right medication, everything finally cleared up normally. But what didn’t go away was the pain when peeing. I got tested again for chlamydia, UTIs, yeast infections, etc., but everything came back negative. My gynecologist said it was probably just irritation and would go away soon.
Then I started looking into it with AI (Ik it’s not reliable but i was desperate). I described my symptoms: burning shortly before and at the beginning of urination, plus a slight pulling sensation in the urethra for about 10 minutes afterward. It gave me tips like avoiding friction, drinking a lot, relaxing the pelvic floor, applying Bepanthen externally, etc. Over the weeks and months, it actually did gradually get better.
For a while now, the pain has mostly been around a 1/10. I even sometimes had completely pain-free days, at least during urination, but then it would worsen again from slight irritation or seemingly for no reason. Recently I was even pain-free for an entire week, but just cautious and brief sexual contact immediately set me back again.
AI says that at this stage, the most important thing is my mindset, because the nerves need to become desensitized again and I need to stop focusing on it so much. That’s really hard for me because I have OCD and sometimes obsessively think about it. After days like that, it genuinely does feel worse again.
Vaginally everything seems fine to me, no pain or anything, not even during sex.
Has anyone experienced something similar or know what this could be?