Applying emla cream?

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This is an anesthetic cream and can be applied in the first portion of vagina, at the mouth and inside. However, if you have pain in initial stages of penetration, then treating the cause will be more beneficial.

Usually pain during the initial stages of penetration is due to UTI and vaginal infection or vaginitis, a tight vaginal wall, sores at the mouth of vagina or vestibulitis, vulvodynia or a dry vagina (frictional injury), rough sex, in first timers, vaginal tears, thrush or fungal infection.

There are many problems that cause vaginal dryness such as hypothyroidism, Sjogren’s syndrome, vaginitis or inflammation of vagina, dermatitis of skin around vagina, condom allergy, or allergy to soaps and lotions. Low estrogen is another cause. Sometimes the foreplay is not adequate for the female to be aroused as the arousal time of the two partners is different.

Please consult your gynecologist regarding this as a confirmed diagnosis is not possible on net. Hope this helps. Take care!