What Is Vulvodynia Dr. Goldstein

Dr. Golstein introduces himself and describes vulvodynia, a condition characterized by chronic vulvar pain. Dr. Goldstein: Hi, I am Irwin Goldstein. I am Director, Sexual Medicine, Alvarado Hospital in San Diego, California. Vulvodynia is pain in the region of the opening of the vagina. Its horribly common. The concept of vulvodynia has received new press, which is very exciting. There was a 20:20 piece on vulvodynia and the doctor who was interviewed, Dr. Andrew Goldstein and I wrote a text book called Female Sexual Pain Disorders, ostensibly its the first text book on womens sexual health issues and I think that was the basis for the interview, but Andrew was receiving roughly 5000 phone calls from women suffering from this horrible condition of vulvodynia.