u/SnooOranges4401

So the moment I got my primary vaginismus diagnosis, I hit the ground running with trying to get botox for my pudendal nerve, and my PA recommended that I see a PT as a first line of defense before getting into the injections. I agreed with her after mulling it over insofar as I figured it was important to understand my girl (coochie) on a physical level before trying to throw corrective medicine at her to 'fix' her. And I am so glad I did. I went on my second PT visit this morning and my wonderful PT and I worked our way up to a full finger insertion with little to no pain and some cool breath-work, mental exercises! Mind you, I've never even been able to insert a suppository before, much less a finger or a tampon.

I literally almost cried when she told me. I didn't even notice how far her finger was and was admittedly skeptical until she was pulling out and I realized it took forever!

And I do things that should cause me to feel proud of myself all the time. And I'm not trying to toot my own horn when I say this but, I kind of always am positioned in a way that I can and do attain validation from being apart of high-achieving things. I study and work in a high-powered industry where I can exact change everyday, I chair large organizations that help the underserved communities I'm apart of, I maintain wonderful relationships with family and friends and loved ones. But I have never ever felt as proud of myself as I did in that moment. I'm proud of being able to sit in with and connect to my entire body, I'm sooooo proud of my girl even though I have to fight feelings of betrayal and disappointment towards her everyday because of my primary vaginismus. But most of all, I'm proud that I gave her a chance to be understood.

Nothing is wrong with Botox, I'll probably still even go that route because I do want extenuating results! But I wasn't even going to give myself the chance to figure this issue out on my own. I thought for certain that if I didn't get foreign intervention, I'd have this condition forever and no progress was going to be made organically. But that was a deep and unjustified mistrust I habored towards my own self and I hadn't noticed that until I was processing the shock and relief I felt after my PT session.

So I am patting myself on the back for giving my girl the chance to stun me into humility and into remembering to trust her. Because she is me! And I hope this is helpful to someone else, to give your girl the chance to impress you and prove you wrong!

I have tried a million different ways to get past the work or activities history form as a kindergarten-to-JD (essentially I've always been in school) student who studied in three different countries for my secondary, tertiary and law school educations and no matter what configuration I put in for this section, I get a error message that genuinely makes me want to crash out. It says:

• Error: To  -  Give details of all your employment and activities for the past 10 years. - You're missing details for the past 10 years. Review your entries and make sure you included something for all times periods in the past 10 years. Do not include any entries that you already put for post-secondary education, military or police force (if that was your only occupation at that time). You can't save or continue to the next questions until you include these details.
  • If you were unemployed, incarcerated, or retired in the last 10 years, select that option from the menu and tell us for how long.
  • If you were a student at a secondary school, select unemployed.

To remedy this issue, I've tried to use the format as recommended by another post in this subreddit bemoaning this issue (2 years ago! Goddamnit Canada, fix your shoddy website!):

Unemployed	2013-08	2020-07
Unemployed	2020-08	2024-07
Unemployed	2024-08	(ongoing)

No reprieve. I've also tried almost every other kind of configuration under the sun and still.

Any suggestions on how people overcame this? I'd really appreciate it!

I'm looking for a word that means insatiable but with a naughty/sexual connotation. Not Неутолимый but something else.

Any recs for bars/pubs doing a showing this week?

Hi everyone! I was recently diagnosed in March by the Pelvic Rehabilitation Medicine center in NYC and they were awesome and offer botox injections but they're out of network for my insurance (I have Cigna OAP). I was wondering if anyone in NYC had positive experiences with botox/steroid injection services in the NYC area that tends to be in network? I'm also in search of recommended PTs in network as well. Would be so grateful!