Rare Medical Condition Makes Orgasms Painful For Some Women [VIDEOS]
Orgasm is normally associated with pleasure because of the concentration of almost all senses while achieving sexual climax or release. However, for some women, orgasm could be painful.
This is particularly true for people like 24-year-old Amanda Gryce who was diagnosed with the rare medical condition called Persistent Genital Arousal Syndrome, or PGAS. It is an officially recognised medical disorder where the patient has unpredictable, overwhelming and powerful orgasms.
Because of the frequency, which could be up to 50 times a day like what Gryce suffered from, it could bring patients down to their knees, reports Fusionviralvideo.com. Bryce shares her story in a three-minute, 27-second YouTube video titled 50 Orgasms A Day: Amanda Gryce Finds Love As She Searches For Cure, which has become viral with close to 14.5 million views in 11 months.
Prior to seeking help, Gryce shared that she had been suffering from the condition since she was six, but she only found relief in 2013 when she went to a specialist for treatment. Footage showed Gryce writhing in pain and knees trembling as she had frequent orgasms throughout the day.
With the help of her doctor and a physical therapist who provided treatment on the muscles, Gryce is experiencing relief from her orgasms which should give pleasure rather than pain. The other good news is that while seeking treatment, she met Stuart Triplett who eventually became her boyfriend and is willing to wait for her involuntary orgasms to be reduced substantially before he and Gryce become intimate.
In the case of a British woman, it was not PGAS that caused painful orgasms but her private parts being hit by water jets while at a theme park in 2009. Shelby Clarke said she was 14 when the accident happened at the Spectacular Dancing Water Fountain at the Blackpool Pleasure Beach in northern England.
Clarke, now 19, said the accident required 250 stitches in her vagina, reports the New York Daily News. She was at the park with her mother, stepfather and a friend. She said she was playing with other children at the water fountains which could spray water as high as 20 feet.
The powerful jet hit her private parts and knocked her off her feet, Clarke recalled. While she felt like going to the toilet, she saw blood everywhere and was rushed to the hospital where she received 250 stitches in the external and internal parts of her genital. The procedure lasted two hours.
Her mother described the injury as literally being “ripped right across from her bottom to her vagina.” A doctor who saw the injuries observed that it looked like Clarke was raped.
Pleasure Beach awarded her a five-figure compensation. Like Gryce, Clarke has a boyfriend, Danny, who has to accept a relationship with limited sexual contact because it is painful, although Clarke said she can enjoy sex, “but I can’t have it very often.”
To contact the writer, email: v.hernandez@ibtimes.com.au
