How long does it take for women to recover from sexual dysfunction?

There is really no unified standard answer to this question. After clinical exposure, most people with mild symptoms and clear triggers can see significant improvement in 2 to 3 months. Those with complex causes, psychological problems or chronic underlying diseases may require more than half a year or even longer intervention to gradually recover.

Speaking of which, I had contact with a 28-year-old new mother two months ago. She had constant pain during sexual intercourse for more than half a year after giving birth. She would hide in pain at the slightest touch. She also became more and more disgusted with the matter. When she came for a checkup, she found that the pelvic floor muscles were hypertonic and the estrogen level had not recovered after delivery. , the problem was not complicated, and she was very cooperative. She came for pelvic floor muscle electrical stimulation twice a week. When she got home, she remembered to do Kegels for 10 minutes every day. She also used estrogen ointment locally according to the doctor's instructions. When she came back for a follow-up visit after 2 and a half months, she said that there was basically no discomfort at all.

But not everyone can be so smooth. Just like the same cold, some people can just drink hot water for two days, while some people have to stay in the hospital for half a month if they have pneumonia. The recovery pace of sexual dysfunction is very different. There was a 32-year-old girl who had been sexually apathetic for almost three years. After talking with her, I found out that she had been molested when she was a child. After getting married, her relationship with her husband had been very tense. For her, having sex was just a chore, and she even had feelings of resistance. This kind of thing cannot be solved by simply adjusting her body. She received long-term sexual counseling and partner relationship mediation with her husband. It took almost a year before she gradually said that she was no longer repelled by intimate contact.

There are also many voices on the Internet saying that this kind of problem does not need to go to the hospital. It can be cured by taking some supplements and getting a personal massage in a week or two. I cannot say that this situation does not exist at all. For example, some people stay up late continuously during that period and are under too much work pressure. They cannot be interested for the time being and adjust their work and rest for a few days. It will recover, but if you have had problems for two or three months in a row, such as no desire, pain during intercourse, and an inability to reach orgasm, and have reached the clinical diagnosis standard of sexual dysfunction, it is basically impossible to see results so quickly. If you blindly believe in those claims of quick recovery, it will easily delay the conditioning.

There are also people who have chronic underlying diseases, such as diabetes, thyroid dysfunction, or hormone levels that drop drastically during perimenopause. In this case, the underlying problems must be controlled first. I previously treated a 46-year-old sister with a history of diabetes for 11 years. Due to menstrual injury and vaginal dryness, I had pain during sexual intercourse for almost two years. At first, I only thought about my sexual function. I adjusted my blood sugar up and down for 3 months with no effect. Later, I went to the endocrinology department to stabilize my blood sugar, and then combined with topical medication and pelvic floor muscle training, it took another 5 months to gradually improve.

In fact, you really don’t need to use other people’s recovery time to apply to yourself. Some people feel slow because they may not have found the right cause of the disease, or they may not be cooperative enough. They always want to be lazy and skip training, or they are too embarrassed to tell their true feelings to their partners or doctors, which actually slows down the progress. After all, this matter is not a shameful problem in the first place. Finding the right reason and taking action in a down-to-earth manner will make it much faster than counting on your fingers every day to figure out when it will get better.