New to sexual health: is this a natural reaction?!


Question: My doctor thinks I may have endometriosis and put me on birth control 7 months ago - one where I don't get a period. In the past month, I've been more sexually active, though not actually having sex and both my boyfriend and I are virgins. The first time my boyfriend and I did a lot, I ended up with thrush, which a doctor dismissed as being a side effect of my birth control without examining me. It went away after a few days of treatment, but several weeks later, after spending a lot of time with my boyfriend again, I feel like I could be getting it again. (I've had itchiness, slight discomfort, but not a more than average discharge.) This time it's not as itchy, but I feel an urgency whenever I need to urinate. Is this just my body adjusting to being more sexually active, or is it a negative result of doing so? Because I really don't think it'd be the birth control when I didn't have these problems the first 6 months.


Answers: My doctor thinks I may have endometriosis and put me on birth control 7 months ago - one where I don't get a period. In the past month, I've been more sexually active, though not actually having sex and both my boyfriend and I are virgins. The first time my boyfriend and I did a lot, I ended up with thrush, which a doctor dismissed as being a side effect of my birth control without examining me. It went away after a few days of treatment, but several weeks later, after spending a lot of time with my boyfriend again, I feel like I could be getting it again. (I've had itchiness, slight discomfort, but not a more than average discharge.) This time it's not as itchy, but I feel an urgency whenever I need to urinate. Is this just my body adjusting to being more sexually active, or is it a negative result of doing so? Because I really don't think it'd be the birth control when I didn't have these problems the first 6 months.

I find that I sometimes get vaginal discomfort when I get overly emotional. I also sometimes get a yeast infection after being sexually active. Which is pretty normal.
So I wouldn't worry about the thrush so much because you may have gotten it from you boyfriend accidentally scratching you vaginal wall (which is probably more sensitive than most because of your condition.)

I would worry about the implication of having Endometriosis and having sex because I was reading on it (I had never heard about it before reading you question) and the description said a symptom of Endometriosis is "painful sex."

Now I am assuming that you want to have sex with your boyfriend, so if I were you, I would go to my gynecologist and really discuss the situation. Ask her(him) what you can or cannot do. If you are not fully satisfied with the answer, ask someone else.
I would want to make sure my body could handle sexual activities before going further.

My experience with gynecologist is that they don't listen to you until your in the hospital. I was once complaining of abnormal bleeding and she only noticed me when I had to go to the ER because I became severely anemic.

So ask questions! Don't be embarrassed or afraid. You don't want to hurt yourself.





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