{"id":407634,"date":"2017-08-01T07:08:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T07:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/08\/01\/why-womens-sual-pain-is-so-commonly-misdiagnosed-as-a-yeast-infection\/"},"modified":"2017-08-01T07:08:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T07:08:03","slug":"why-womens-sual-pain-is-so-commonly-misdiagnosed-as-a-yeast-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/08\/01\/why-womens-sual-pain-is-so-commonly-misdiagnosed-as-a-yeast-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Women&#8217;s S**ual Pain Is So Commonly Misdiagnosed as a Yeast Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>s*xual pain is difficult for both doctors and patients to diagnose s*xual pain problems tend to go on for a lot longer than necessary because they are so commonly misdiagnosed as vaginal infections. And some experts say the situation is made worse by a more general trend toward overdiagnosing yeast infections.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors frequently diagnose yeast infections without using a microscope, but an infection that looks like yeast with the unclad eye could be desquamative vaginitis (a severe and rare form of vaginitis) or trichomoniasis. And doctors aren\u2019t the only ones to blame. \u201cSeventy percent of women who treat themselves for yeast infections don\u2019t have them,\u201d says Marjorie Green, MD, director of the Mount Auburn Female s*xual Medicine Center in Cambridge, Mass., and a clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School.<\/p>\n<p>Another theory holds that a major cause of vulvodynia is excessive and improper use of anti-yeast medications.<\/p>\n<p>If you have s*xual pain, its important to consult your primary care physician or gynecologist first; if that doesn\u2019t get you anywhere after a few visits, ask for a referral to a s*xual medicine specialist. Or find one yourself by contacting the National Vulvodynia Association or a university hospital in your area.<\/p>\n<p>s*xual health problems can be difficult to diagnose\u2014even for the experts. \u201cIf it was easy, I wouldn\u2019t need to spend an hour and 15 minutes [with new patients],\u201d says Andrew Goldstein, MD, an associate professor at George Washington University. \u201cThis stuff is hard!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>source: Health<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>s*xual pain is difficult for both doctors and patients to diagnose s*xual pain problems tend to go on for a lot longer than necessary because they are so commonly misdiagnosed as vaginal infections. And some experts say the situation is made worse by a more general trend toward overdiagnosing yeast infections. 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