Dr. Janelle Frederick

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258 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 13 Aug

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Life Kit · If sex is painful, you have options · 13 Aug 2026 podcast

that can make insertion so painful and obviously relationships and intimacy as well.

Which is like the burning, the stinging, the pain on the outside, either the opening, the clitoris, or even the labia can get painful.

So medications that can relax the muscles, medications that can sort of calm the nerves from driving like that sharp shooting pain.

So your doctor would help you through figuring out what would be appropriate.

So if you're dealing with painful sex and you know that you have severe endometriosis or fibroids or something going on with your cervix, maybe in an abnormal pap smear, then we want to make sure are we taking care of that problem.

Mental health.

So let's say you're just going through a really tough time and you're depressed.

Depression can contribute to pelvic floor tension, anxiety.

If you have been abused sexually.

that risk goes up significantly for painful sex andor vaginismus.

If there's been trauma or uh just really hard transitions in your life that haven't really been addressed or processed, then mental health alone literally could be driving someone's pelvic pain.

pelvic floor.

So a very non-invasive option where we go in, we start retraining that pelvic floor, we're reducing pain, we're showing you how to breathe, we're showing you how to actually relax your muscles and not tighten them.

Um pelvic floor physical therapy is definitely an option that should be explored more whenever

pain is happening with sex because there's high rates of success with it and it's such a non-invasive option for care.

Sure.

So first thing is it's gonna be like a long conversation.

You're gonna get asked the most questions you've ever had about your poop, your pee, your sex life, your pelvis in general.

It's not gonna be just sex because the muscles that help support your pelvis deal with more than just sex.

So they're gonna gather your information, your medical history, what you're dealing with and what your goals are, and then you can expect an examination.

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