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Article: Long-term lidocaine use seen effective for pelvic pain.(Women's Health)
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- Internal Medicine News
- Article date:
- February 15, 2005
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CHICAGO -- Long-term use of 5% lidocaine ointment shows promise for the management of vulvar vestibulitis, vaginal apex pain, and intrinsic cervical pain, John Steege, M.D., said at a meeting sponsored by the International Pelvic Pain Society.
"We started out with vestibulitis pain and moved on to vaginal apex pain, and overnight lidocaine works pretty well," said Dr. Steege of the division of advanced laparoscopic and gynecologic surgery at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "We've done 52 vaginal apex revisions, but we've slowed down on that in the last few years because the overnight lidocaine works pretty well."
Dr. Steege credits ...