Clear explanations of the conditions we specialise in: what they are, how they feel, and how we treat them.
Persistent pain, burning or rawness at the vulva lasting three months or more, without an obvious infection or skin condition to explain it.
A genuine pain condition involving sensitised nerves, not something you're imagining.
Involuntary tightening of the pelvic floor muscles when penetration is attempted, whether with tampons, examinations or sex.
The muscles guard automatically to protect you, which is why effort and willpower alone don't release them.
A chronic whole-body inflammatory condition where tissue similar to the womb lining grows outside the uterus, causing pain, inflammation and sometimes adhesions.
Pain often extends well beyond periods and can persist even after surgery.
A subtype of vulvodynia where pain is triggered specifically by pressure or touch at the vestibule (the entrance to the vagina).
The area typically looks completely normal on examination.
Repeated urinary tract infections, or ongoing bladder pain and urgency that continues even when tests come back clear.
Repeated antibiotic courses can disrupt the vulvar microbiome, making the cycle harder to break.
Irritation, compression or damage of the pudendal nerve, the main nerve supplying the vulva, perineum and anus.
Typically causes burning, shooting or electric-shock pain, often worse when sitting.
Pain across the pubic bone, groin, lower back or sacroiliac joints, caused by how the pelvic joints load and move rather than by damage to them.
Common in and after pregnancy, but not limited to it.
A condition where tissue similar to the womb lining grows into the muscular wall of the uterus, making it thicker, heavier and often tender.
Causes heavy, painful periods and cramping that can persist between cycles.
Non-cancerous growths that develop in or around the uterus. They vary widely in size and number, many cause no symptoms, but others create significant pelvic pressure, heavy periods, or pain during sex.
A chronic inflammatory skin condition affecting the vulva, causing thin, pale, fragile skin that can itch, split or scar over time.
It is not an infection and it is not contagious, but it does need ongoing specialist care to protect tissue health.
Persistent bladder pain, pressure and urgency lasting six weeks or more, with no infection found on testing.
The bladder lining and the nerves supplying it have become sensitised, so normal filling is felt as pain.
You don't need a diagnosis to be seen here. If one of these describes your experience, that's enough to begin.
Pain before, during or after sex, at the entrance, deeper inside, or both.
It can be muscular, hormonal, inflammatory, neurological, and very often several at once.
Pain anywhere across the vulva: burning, soreness, stinging or aching, whether constant or triggered by touch.
The skin often looks completely normal, which is why this symptom is so frequently dismissed.
Pain felt inside the vagina: tightness, aching, cramping or a tearing sensation with tampons, examinations or penetration.
Burning, pressure or urgency in the bladder, often with the feeling of an infection when tests come back clear.
Repeated antibiotic courses can leave the bladder and vulvar microbiome more sensitive, not less.
A burning, stinging or raw sensation at the vulva, vagina or urethra, sometimes constant and sometimes triggered by touch, sitting or clothing.
Burning is typically a nerve-driven symptom: the nerves have become sensitised and are over-reporting pain.
Pelvic pain with no name attached to it yet. Scans and swabs come back normal, appointments end in a shrug, and you are left wondering whether anyone believes you.
A missing diagnosis does not mean a missing cause; it usually means nobody has looked with the right lens.
Whichever condition brought you here, care begins the same way: a free 15-minute consultation to work out the right pathway for you.
No referral, no waiting list, no being told it's in your head.
