Using dilators doesn’t always go as easily as it might seem. Or maybe it seems deathly scary and you don’t even know where to start, let alone if you want to. Maybe you’re using dilators and you’re having a hard time bumping up to that next size towards your goal.

Try these 5 tips to help you have success with vaginal dilators!

So you have vaginismus and you’d like to, well, not have vaginismus! So how do you make it go away? Is there a cure for vaginismus? Let’s dive into 7 ways you can help heal from your vaginismus.

Vaginismus - a clinical syndrome where there is difficulty or pain with vaginal insertion, so much so that it can seem nearly impossible to insert anything vaginally. It has overlapping elements of hypertonic pelvic floor muscles, pain, anxiety, and difficulty in penetration. It has many possible causes, or shall I say risk factors. Knowing possible causes for your vaginismus can help you heal from it.

Anxiety and the pelvic floor are in an intimate relationship. In fact, anxiety has relationships with a lot of parts of your body. Remember last time you felt anxious or stressed and you noticed your neck was tense as your shoulders were hiked up? Or maybe your jaw cracked open after it was just in a tense battle with your thoughts? Anxiety and the neck, shoulders, jaw… they’re in a very intimate relationship, just like the pelvic floor. So how does anxiety impact the pelvic floor?

So your doctor says you have a hypertonic pelvic floor…
You may be thinking – “What does that really mean? What am I supposed to do about it? What else has this been impacting that I may not know about?”

Well let’s talk about it.