My gyno has offered to surgically remove inflamed vestibular glands and tissues that he says cause the burning vulvodynia pain. He is retiring this month, so I have to make the decision very quickly and have the surgery this Wednesday if at all.
I have seen that many on this list also have vulvodynia caused by lyme. If lyme is the cause, and it is chronic, can surgery to remove the glands and tissues that are currently inflamed cure the inflammation and pain?
Or, would the lyme bacteria that continue in the body continue to cause inflammation and pain in the tissues remaining?
If you have had such a surgery, I'd sure love to know if it succeeded, or if you were one of the 20% who are not cured by surgery because of your lyme disease.
Thank you so much!
Yin
Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
yin,
check out NIH's medical library, and i brought this up for you; NO knowledge on this, but i think this may help you some I HOPE
best wishes on making a decision, and do NOT rush in spite of your dr. retiring!! think this over carefully. i hope others will comment.
also use search at top type in that name medical topic any date leave membership no. blank; click search
read all posts/replies if none use BACK button and change topic to text area; click search
Posted by beths (Member # 18864) on :
I had vuvodynia-looking back, it may have been from my first lyme infection. The surgery is NOT usually successful. There is a website from the vulvodynia foundation-very helpful.
I modified my diet (low oxalate) took baking soda baths, and tried a tricyclic antidepressant for the pain. Gone Now!
Posted by Yin (Member # 4707) on :
Thank you for your help, BettyG and Beth S. When I did a Search here on this topic, someone reported that half of her LLMD's women patients had this symptom. I'm still hoping someone might see this who tried the surgery before knowing it might be caused by lyme.
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