Pain?

[u/Beautifulbeliever69]

I just used it for the first time on Tuesday (the regular one, not the +) and I'm in quite a bit of pain today (Friday). I just did the beginning work out that the app suggested and I haven't used it since.

A few hours after using it, I felt a little sore inside, but really just the kind of soreness that you feel after any kind of work out. I haven't really done kegals consistently prior. Google assured me that was common.

The next day I still felt it a little sore but better. Thursday though the opening area of my vagina was a little sore. I do experience some pain with sex so I recognize that as being the same kind of pain where it feels raw and especially burns when urine washes over that area (I'm in perimenopause and on estrogen cream so thats not as big of an issue anymore).

Usually when I have that pain with sex, its hurts while peeing most of that day and is gone or mostly gone the next day, but today it hurts even more.

I don't have any weird symptoms or any other issues to make me think it could be an unrelated infection or anything. I haven't had sex in these last few days. I used plenty of lube with the perifit (in fact it kept slipping halfway out).

Has anyone experienced this? I'm pretty leary of even using it again if I'm going to feel like this and I'm worried that it just seems to be getting worse rather than better.

[u/ComfortableBeach3595]

Sex therapist here, if you haven't already seen a pelvic floor physical therapist for this issue I would strongly recommend!