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(HealthNewsDigest.com) – An estimated twenty million women suffer from pain during sexual intercourse, and as many as forty percent won’t seek medical care to relieve it. While the causes and treatments for dyspareunia (sexual pain) vary as much as the women who suffer from it, the embarrassment and silence surrounding the condition are often wide-spread. Even doctors are in the dark when it comes to women’s sexual pain, often misdiagnosing or over-medicating the problem.
When Sex Hurts: A Woman’s Guide to Banishing Sexual Pain addresses the realities of sexual pain and offers effective solutions for women who suffer from it. Using an all-inclusive approach, Doctors Goldstein, Pukall, and Goldstein target the stereotypes and myths surrounding painful sex, reveal the more than twenty different causes (genetic, hormonal, bacterial, and dermatological being a few), and offer practical solutions for treatment. Along with crash courses in the nature of pain and how to choose and work with your doctor(s), readers also learn valuable tips for understanding dyspareunia, things like:
· What you don’t know about birth control pills can hurt you.
· An accepting and understanding partner might be causing your pain to increase.
· Seventy-one percent of women who underwent physical therapy for vulvar pain said their pain decreased by more than half.
· Keeping a journal of your symptoms, with very specific descriptions of your pain, can help speed the diagnosis process.
Down-to earth commentary is joined by diagrams, lists of resources, and psychological exercises to help women get to the root of their pain and begin treatment. Featuring information on research that is being done in the field and tips for how to rebuild once the pain is gone, When Sex Hurts is an authoritative, practical, and comprehensive guide that gives women the tools needed to address their individual situation and begin healing.
Andrew Goldstein, MD, is a national medical expert on sexual pain and dysfunction. He is the President-elect of the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health and is on faculty at the George Washington University School of Medicine. He lives in Maryland.
Caroline Pukall, PhD, is a leading researcher of women’s sexual function and dysfunction and an associate professor at Queen’s University. She lives in Ontario.
Irwin Goldstein, MD, has been involved with patient care and research in sexual dysfunction for over thirty years. A winner of the Gold Medal awarded by the World Association for Sexual Health in recognition of his lifetime contributions to the field, he lives in Southern California.
February 1, 2011 $16.00 Paperback Original Sexuality/Health 250 pages ISBN: 978-0-7382-1398-9
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