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Struggled with vaginismus for 5 years New

I just wanted to say thank you so much for this website. I struggled with vaginismus for 5 years and due to your spacers I was finally able to overcome. What a wonderful site dedicated to this very real and poorly understood problem! I am so glad I found your site.

Many thanks! New

First of all - THANK YOU. I'm gonna order a kit later today, and i've found your entire website so comforting to use - it has just about ALL the information I wanted to know when I realized I had vaginismus. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!

Heard wonderful things about you from other therapists New

I'm a Brazilian PHD Pelvic Floor Physical therapist treating pelvic pain, including vaginismus, and have heard wonderful things about you from other therapists in the same field.

First of all I would like to congratulate your website with the complete approach for the treatment. As well I would like to know if is possible for you to mail me some pamphlets or brochures for patient use. I must refer patients to purchase their own treating equipment here in Brazil (such as dilators, workbooks, etc.)

Thank you in my name and in the name of my patients.

Dr. Mirian Kracochansky
www.celulamater.com.br
Brazil

Help and kindness

Oh my goodness, thank you so much. I was just diagnosed with this condition a few days ago, so I am new to the entire aspect. I appreciate all of the support that I have gotten from this website so far, and look forward to being a part of the community. The help and kindness I have gotten from the respondents of my message, and the overall quality of the website has been a great network of support and security. Thank you again

Thank you

Omg, omg, omg, thank you, thank you, thank you. I am 21 years old and have been married for one year and two months and have never had penetration. We have had oral sex but i was never able to let him finger me or enter me. Neither was i able to use a tampon on anything. Just last week my husband and I were talking about separating because he got fustrated and is in the military and away right now so he is extra fustrated and all and just last night I decided to give researching one last try. I was told I have genophobia (fear of sex), I was told i just need to relax, to give it time, maybe I'm not ready - practically every excuse in the book. Thank god for your website. My husband is due home in 22 days and I am hoping I can give him a surprise and I will be ready. At one point I stopped believing in God because i kept telling myself kids at age 13 and 14 are having sex and they dont even care and i wanna do it - married and extremely in love and unable to do it. I started saying he didn't care and he didn't exist and just last week I said im gonna try believing again and start going to church and viola I came across your site. You are a life saver. I had an appointment for tomorrow to see a gyno to get my vagina stretched while I'm asleep and I've learned from reading your site that it won't help because when I'm awake I might still be afraid of penetration even though i was stretched. I also just ordered the complete kit and i will definately keep you posted on what happens and my progress. Thank you guys so much. God bless and hopefully I get my package by Wednesday.

Blessing and love

Very helpful

Your site and mission are very helpful, they truly educate and shed light upon this condition.

Instructor always recommended your website and dilator sets to patients

I'm a physical therapist at a fitness center owned by Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights, IL. During one of my clinicals while a student at Northwestern, my "pelvic floor" clinical instructor always recommended your website and dilator sets to patients. Now that I've graduated, a few other therapists and myself are in the process of developing a pelvic floor program at my current clinic. I was wondering if you are able to provide a dilator set to health professionals to show and instruct with patients prior to them purchasing their own? Please let me know. I appreciate it.

Taylor Laurence, PT, DPT
Arlington Heights, IL

Refer patients every week

You have a truly wonderful website and service to which I refer patients every week.

Elizabeth Kemper, MPT, BCIA-PMDB
Sovereign Rehabilitation
Decatur, GA

Helping silent sufferers

The book is very insightful and thorough. Well done for having such a professional website and helping silent sufferers all over the world!

Thanks for Having this Website Available

"I purchased the kit with the dilators, book & video & received it in October 2007. I started the same day. I didn't have much trouble with the first two dilators. Today, I was able to insert the largest dilator after inserting the previous size first. I am so happy that my brother, who is an ob/gyn told me about vaginismus. I am almost 35 next month, married for 4 1/2 years & simply want to have intercourse finally & start a family. Thanks for having this website available!"

Hope to be Cured

The most important thing for me is that I got rid of the disease which had been caused rather with stress and fear, and lack of information then with physiology. In this case, the information from the web-site, the stories of women, and the hope to be cured were the best therapy. I am really thankful also for your time and efforts.

Relief

Many thanks for your quick response. I found the piece on the website both encouraging and helpful regarding treatment for vaginismus when you are single. A lot of the fears I have about meeting someone new, are echoed in the text. It is a relief to find that others feel the same way and there is hope, as it can be quite isolating !!

Excited for the Life Change

Thanks so much for your quick response.  What a blessing.  I am very excited to begin this journey more whole heartedly!!  I appreciate that you have a website such as this.  I'm excited for the life change to come. 

Comprehensive and Well Designed

Glad to have come across your site - comprehensive and well designed. Thank you for putting it up.

Hope, Prayers, and Support

"Dear Vaginismus.com founders and members, I received my kit today and look forward with hope, prayers and support from this wonderful forum that I will soon overcome vaginismus. Discovering this site, learning about the kit and reading through postings in this forum - has been a Godsend.  I have the most amazing and supportive husband in the world and feel truly blessed. But despite his love and support and patience, I felt very sad and alone with this problem. You can imagine our joy when I discovered there was a name for what I am experiencing,  and to find that there are others who are going through the same thing was more comforting than I can ever express...I finally saw hope...I finally felt help could be on its way...and I am not some sort of freak of nature. My prayers are with you all...and THANK YOU...finding this means more to me than I could ever express."

Hope and Encouragement

Thank you so much. Your quick reply demonstrates what we saw in your organization from the start - caring and understanding about something that few people seem to understand or have an answer for, or any knowledge at all for that matter.  We are excited about receiving it because after so many months of frustration and confusion, we found this website which has brought us a lot of hope and encouragement.

This Kit Helped Me Remove My Fear

I thank you. Last night I finally successfully had sex with my boyfriend. I bought this dilator set in January 2007. I've been "practicing" for 8 months and it worked! I was unable to be penetrated at all before. So I browsed online to see if there's a solution to this. I found this website and the dilation kit seems to be a sensible solution. I started with the smallest of course. It hurt a bit at first, but then I gradually became more comfortable with it. So I moved on to the second, and finally the third. This kit helped me remove my fear of penetration and also relax my vaginal muscles, so it's both physical and psychological help. Thank you so much.

Confidence and Above All, Hope

I was suffering from vaginismus for three years and was very depressed. Then while browsing through net i found your website, and I ordered for the dilator set immediately. With the help of dilators i overcame the fear of insertion. I used the dilator set slow and steady for 5 months, and one fine day without much difficulty i was able to have sex with my husband. The initial discomfort (not pain)of having intercourse will be there even after using dilators but the fact that i was able to insert the fourth dilator gave me confidence and above all hope that i can have sex like other women.

Successful in Conceiving

"We would like to thank you for the great help you have offered us. We purchased your kit and I was successful in conceiving in 6 months time. We have been married for 5 years and have been trying for a baby since then, but it was your kit and His Blessings that did the wonder !! We truly are very glad and thankful to your site."

Painless Intercourse

I  ordered the dilators from your website, and last month I regularly practiced using the dilators and then went to see my gynecologist. I told her that I was able to insert the third biggest dilator with slight discomfort. She checked me and told me that there is lot of improvement and if I am able to insert the dilator , I am ready for painless intercourse. She gave me advice on positions, and now I am successfully able to allow my husband to penetrate me. We both were very happy and are now hopeful of having a better sex life . Thanks a lot to vaginismus.com for the dilators which helped me overcome this problem.

Alleviating Confusion, Pain, and Hopelessness

I just wanted to thank you for this website. Just a couple of hours looking at the site has managed to alleviate so much of the confusion, pain and hopelessness that I've felt for a long time about the condition. Thank you!

I Have Been Able to Overcome Vaginismus

"I just wanted to thank you and Mark for sharing your stories. Thanks to your helpful kit, I have been able to overcome vaginismus and engage in sex for the first time with my loving and supportive boyfriend. It's such a great feeling because I never thought it would be possible. Friends and family didn't understand what I was going through and I never understood whether or not something was wrong with me. The entire kit was helpful, everything from the video, the workbook, and the dilators. It's also comforting to know that I'm not alone and that so many other women have changed their lives thanks to your products. I'm so glad I found your site. I can't thank you enough!"

Good Insight

Firstly i'd like to say that your website is really fantastic. Its given me a good insight into my problem that before would just panic and worry me.

Changed My Life

"Your book has changed my life completely. I actually found your website by accident and finally found a solution to my problem that I hid from for years."

Very Empowering

"Thank you! Thank you! And Thank You!!! My husband and I were able to consummate our 7 year marriage. We are now able to have pain free intercourse without the help of dilators. I can proudly say that we overcame Vaginismus. The step by step instructions in the book were amazing and the feedback from the forums is very empowering. It is so amazing to know that I was not alone in this world suffering from Vaginismus. I could relate to what other women experience. Thanks again for bringing this amazing product into our lives. We are on our way to a normal sexually active life!"

Love, Wisdom, and Respect

Thank you very much for your encouraging words. Your Web site is dealing with this important issue with so much love, wisdom and respect, and this is very important. I am not feeling alone any more.

Wonderfully accurate and thorough

As a physical therapist with over ten years of experience in the field of pelvic pain, 15 years of physical therapy experience in all, I have found this site to be wonderfully accurate and thorough. Overcoming vaginismus and chronic pelvic pain conditions can be a daunting task, and having accurate and reliable sources to reference is an invaluable tool. You don't have to live with pain; you can overcome vaginismus. To everyone at Vaginismus.com, thank you for a wonderful website and thank you for your efforts.

Peter A. Philip MS, PT
philipphysicaltherapy.com
New Caanan, CT

I can go to bed tonight with hope

Hi, I just found out today that I have vaginismus and after finding this website I'm starting to feel much better. You're right, no one knows about this and when you hear about it you just feel like you have a stigma...I left my doctor today wondering if I'd ever be comfortable to have a pelvic exam, intercourse, or have children...and after reading the stories and info on this website I feel like I can go to bed tonight with hope that I'll be fine and that I can overcome this...THANK YOU!!!

Prompt and Comforting

Thank you so much for your prompt response to my email and for the prompt and comforting phone call. I am actually excited now to try and attempt a new sex life after finishing the program! I am placing my order now…and can't wait to start. Thanks once again for such an awesome website and such care and concern that you take in your approach with those of us who are struggling to feel normal despite the lack of sex in our lives. I am still crying realizing that there IS hope and that I'm not alone.

Wonderful Resource

I have been able to log in and use the wonderful resource that I previously couldn't figure out. Thank you so much for your continued help.

Amazing

Your web site is amazing!

Wonderful people

Comments: Hi I'm so grateful for finding this website cause I've been dealing with this problem for 5 to 6 years now. I wish I knew about this site sooner. I can't wait to use the kit. Thanks again for wonderful people and a very helpful website.

Help and support

"I just wanted to say thank you for your help and support … Before finding your wonderful website I felt lonely and I was thinking that I was the only one with this problem. Now I know that I have someone to speak with. Keep trying women with this problem. Thanks again for everything."

Insight and hope

"Your website really gave me insight and hope"

So hopeful

"Thank you so much. Your site has made me so hopeful."

Useful both for me and clients

"As a psychosexual therapist I think that your site is really useful…both for me as a professional and for clients … thank you."

Nigel Madin, Psychosexual Therapist
Saltergate Health Centre
Chesterfield, UK

Doing well with the program

"I am doing well with the program … Thank you for your time, and website. It has been wonderful to know that other women are going through this too and that I'm not the only one."

A great resource for my patients

"What a great resource for my patients! Your site is terrific and full of great advice and resources for help. I am giving a talk about dyspareunia at the upcoming SUNA meeting and would like to use some information from your site - may I do so with appropriate referencing of the site? Thanks!"

Lora Plaskon, MD, MSE
Evergreen/Athena Urology
Kirkland, WA

Website is brilliant

"Your website is brilliant and I feel uplifted to know that I am not alone with this problem"

This site has made me feel normal

"This site has made me feel like I am normal. For years I have felt like I was the only one with this problem. After reading the stories of others that have vaginismus, I feel like I am normal again. I wish this problem was more well known .... I have been to a doctor and advised her of my problem and she gave me the typical answer..try to relax and maybe light some candles and have some wine...only if it was that easy ... Thank you"

You and your website give us the hope that there is the way

"Thank you for everything you have done! You are the best. You and your website give us the hope that there is the way. Thank you! The forum is very good idea ... You and all moderators on the forum are very special people. You deserve the happiness! In the world there are only few people who have such big heart and share their stories with others. But, there are some few people (as you, Kate) who really help us who have this problem! Thank you! I think that who seeding goodness will reap happiness. I study medicine and I must admit, that your website have far the most information about vaginismus! Even in medical book is this subject very poorly covered. I ... owe you a great debt of thanks for all!"

Heart warming

"Hi Lisa, first of all I just wanted to say thank you so much for your support. If was such a relief for me to find your website and even more really found your message below heart warming... Thank you so much for all your help - I sincerely appreciate it"

So grateful

"I am so grateful to find this web site as I never knew what I was going through was actually a condition and I was not abnormal. ... There was a lot of information that I found on your web site that was so informative and consoling for me as I never knew what the real problem was. Thank you."

A supportive community

"Thanks so much, Lisa! It's great to find a supportive community about this."

Helpful for patient

". . I just ordered a set of vaginal dilators for a patient. This is the first time I have visited your website, but I had suggested the site to a patient and she found it very helpful! Thank you!"

Dr. Stephanie Cunningham
Port Arthur, TX

Thank you so much

"I am a Clinical Psychologist working with women with Vaginismus here in Sydney, Australia. I was impressed with the presentation of all your products - they all look good and the books and web site are informative and both easy to read, and understand. The patients I see who have received your products have been helped immensely by the prompt service; the web site; the follow up service and now the Private Forum. This package has helped them to learn and understand about Vaginismus and feel supported in their quest for overcoming this difficult and often misunderstood problem."

Jessica Medd, Clinical Psychologist,
Dept of Urology, Concord Hospital
Concord, N Australia.

It is wonderful.

"I wanted to let you know that I have indeed been on the forums already exchanging stories and information with the other women. I truly appreciate having this avenue to talk with other people who have the problem. It is wonderful."

The only comprehensive source of information I’ve ever come across

"By way of feedback I can only heap praise on the content … It remains the only comprehensive source of information I've ever come across … was invaluable as the first step in addressing a problem precipitated by trauma some twenty years ago … understanding the condition has been nine tenths of resolving it and, armed with knowledge provided … we have been able to move forward after years of stalemate … My doctors now have your site bookmarked and will recommend it to other patients."

I was very pleased to learn that I was not alone

"I was very pleased to learn that I was not alone. I felt as though there was something very abnormal about me, and reading your literature helped me realise that many women suffer from vaginismus. Thanks!"

A wonderful website

"Thank you for a wonderful website and the knowledge that help is never far away."

When I found your website, I was extremely relieved

"Dear vaginismus.com, I was devastated on my wedding night when we couldn't have sex. I thought there was something wrong with my body, or we just weren't doing it right, or something! My doctor gave me a name for my problem - vaginismus. When I found your website, I was extremely relieved to know there were others like me, and that there was hope! I couldn't find many other resources than your website. Thank you SO MUCH for being there when I needed answers!"

Thank you for your website

"… we have started practicing the real act. It has taken me a long time get started due to lack of time for practice, and my case wasn't that bad to begin with. The program has definitely helped a lot. I wouldn't know how else to deal with this. Thank you for all the efforts you have put in to this in order to cure it. I especially would like to thank you for your website. There are a lot of people out there, who don't know what this is called … Thanks again."

What a well put together site

"… We just found your site and what a well put together site it is, it was such a relief to read all that and to be able to understand better what we have been going through. We have been married 13 years and for all that time have never been able to have intercourse. I have only finally just last year been able to insert a tampon and that was an amazing feat. It has been an incredibly hard time as you do feel isolated and even a bit "weird" that you can't do something that seems so natural for many others. For a long time I didn't even know what on earth was wrong with me, and it is a fearful awful time. I am so blessed to have a very faithful, understanding, loving husband who has been with me every step of the way … Thank you for your site as it does show that there are others, who are suffering in this way and it helps you to understand that you are not alone and that it isn't your fault. The guilt that you can suffer from is overwhelming at times and there are times I even have wanted to end it all. Thank goodness I do have a supportive husband and I also thank God that I do have a strong faith in him … Again thank you - your site probably helps so many people feel that they really are not alone. It is an extremely hard thing to talk about and not something you can just share with anyone. For years people have pestered me about why don't we have kids - I am now 33 … It really is like a silent problem. Thanks from NZ"

At last someone understood

"… reading your website when I first realized what the problem was, I sobbed over the keyboard, as at last someone understood."

Your site is excellent, very helpful

"I would like to say I think your site is excellent, very helpful and easy to navigate - thanks again"

Your website is a fantastic resource!

"I can't thank you enough for your wonderful website! I have a couple of patients who simply wouldn't believe me when I was trying to explain this condition; your website is a fantastic resource!"

Paul Starr, MD

A much needed resource

“I am a physical therapist specializing in women’s health and have several patients with vaginismus or dyspareunia. I just finished reading your book and it is excellent and very helpful. I have already recommended it to two of my patients … I found it very well written, easily understandable for a lay-person, and a much needed resource… Thank you very much for the sample dilators. I plan to give my patients the option to choose between your brand and the one we have stocked right now. I like that your dilators are tapered at the end for greater ease of insertion. I think I may prefer the size also after holding the two products side by side. I will be taking them to a talk I am giving to a support group as well.” “I like your website and continue to refer people to both the website and your products. I’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback from my patients in response.”

Susan Decker, PT
The Rehabilitation and Health Center
Akron, OH

Thank you for your great web site and your products.

“I have just seen your books from a patient and love the diagrams (plus the books). I have ordered 2 sets for our clinic and patients. I would love to use your pictures for teaching purposes with patients and their partners. Would you give me permission to copy them and laminate for our use? Thank you for your great web site and your products.”

Mary Wood, PT
Cura Physical Therapies
Edmonton, AB, Canada

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