Have you ever looked into Phantom Limb Pain as a possible analog to your condition? What you are experiencing sounds a lot like phantom limb pain, i.e. when someone has an extremity amputated often times the nerves that respond to a pain stimulus from the now missing extremity go haywire and transmit pain stimuli that is not actually there, obviously, because there is nothing there where the pain is emanating from. I'd wager that something along the line of infections you had damaged nerve cells inside the walls of your vagina and now they are reporting stimuli to your CNS that isn't there. Nerve cells operate on a very basic principal, they are at a state of rest (no stimuli) and have a potential (resting) charge of -70mV. To activate the nerve cell, a change in charge of 5 to 15mV is necessary. This opens the Sodium and Potassium pathways and "fires" the message that there is pain/touch aka sensation. So, technically speaking, the original doctors were correct. The pain is actually all in your head, but ONLY because you have nerve cells firing pain impulses up to your brain when there isn't any. Although correctly interpreted as pain impulses by your brain, they are falsely being sent there by your periphery nervous system. So, you feel pain, and your CNS compensates by sending appropriate messages back down to the region, contracting muscles, etc. Basically it sounds as if you have pain impulses constantly being sent due to a nerve fiber thats cells are partially stuck in the open position. An inflamation of the nerve tissue if you will.
According to the internet... another possibility.
Bartholin's glands secrete mucus to provide vaginal lubrication.[3][4] Bartholin's glands secrete relatively minute amounts of fluid when a woman is sexually aroused.[5] The minute droplets of fluid were once believed to be important for lubricating the vagina, but research from Masters and Johnson demonstrated that vaginal lubrication comes from deeper within the vagina.[5] The fluid may slightly moisten the labial opening of the vagina, serving to make contact with this sensitive area more comfortable for the woman.[5]
It is possible for the Bartholin's glands to become blocked and inflamed resulting in pain.[5] This is known as bartholinitis or a Bartholin's cyst.[6] A Bartholin's cyst in turn can become infected and form an abscess. Adenocarcinoma of the gland is rare, but benign tumors and hyperplasia are even more rare.[7]
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Have you ever looked into Phantom Limb Pain as a possible analog to your condition? What you are experiencing sounds a lot like phantom limb pain, i.e. when someone has an extremity amputated often times the nerves that respond to a pain stimulus from the now missing extremity go haywire and transmit pain stimuli that is not actually there, obviously, because there is nothing there where the pain is emanating from. I'd wager that something along the line of infections you had damaged nerve cells inside the walls of your vagina and now they are reporting stimuli to your CNS that isn't there. Nerve cells operate on a very basic principal, they are at a state of rest (no stimuli) and have a potential (resting) charge of -70mV. To activate the nerve cell, a change in charge of 5 to 15mV is necessary. This opens the Sodium and Potassium pathways and "fires" the message that there is pain/touch aka sensation. So, technically speaking, the original doctors were correct. The pain is actually all in your head, but ONLY because you have nerve cells firing pain impulses up to your brain when there isn't any. Although correctly interpreted as pain impulses by your brain, they are falsely being sent there by your periphery nervous system. So, you feel pain, and your CNS compensates by sending appropriate messages back down to the region, contracting muscles, etc. Basically it sounds as if you have pain impulses constantly being sent due to a nerve fiber thats cells are partially stuck in the open position. An inflamation of the nerve tissue if you will. According to the internet... another possibility. Bartholin's glands secrete mucus to provide vaginal lubrication.[3][4] Bartholin's glands secrete relatively minute amounts of fluid when a woman is sexually aroused.[5] The minute droplets of fluid were once believed to be important for lubricating the vagina, but research from Masters and Johnson demonstrated that vaginal lubrication comes from deeper within the vagina.[5] The fluid may slightly moisten the labial opening of the vagina, serving to make contact with this sensitive area more comfortable for the woman.[5] It is possible for the Bartholin's glands to become blocked and inflamed resulting in pain.[5] This is known as bartholinitis or a Bartholin's cyst.[6] A Bartholin's cyst in turn can become infected and form an abscess. Adenocarcinoma of the gland is rare, but benign tumors and hyperplasia are even more rare.[7]
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