Paige Davis, who you may recognize as the host of the fan favorite TLC show Trading Spaces, is opening up about the stigma of experiencing pain during sex and her road to getting a diagnosis.
She searched for answers for 30 years and kept it a secret from her husband for most of their relationship. Click inside to read more… “When I have intercourse, I feel like the ring of my vagina is on fire,” Paige told People. “It feels like somebody went in and put a thousand paper cuts around my opening.” “It never felt good at all,” she added.
After years of searching for a diagnosis, she finally found a doctor who was able to give her a diagnosis after 30 years of searching: pudendal neuralgia, which is long-term pelvic pain that originates from damage or irritation of the pudendal nerve. “She told me she had many patients experience the exact pain and challenges I was describing.
Not only do they share my physical pain but have undoubtedly experienced some of the same emotional pain — feeling broken, or feeling like you have to perform or no one will want you,” she said.
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