A young woman has revealed
the details of her painful struggle with a condition that leaves her constantly
sexually aroused.
Amanda McLaughling
23, from the United States, has lived with the problem for 10 years and
says she has to beg her fiancé JoJo for sex every day to relieve her symptoms.
The condition,
called persistent genital arousal disorder (PGAD), causes pain in her legs and
pelvis that is so bad she is unable to work and rarely leaves her home.
Now Ms
McLaughlin has spoken of her ordeal as part of a documentary for BBC
Three’s Living Differently.
It’s not fun to
be aroused all the time,” she said. “It feels like you’re about to orgasm and
then it never goes away.”
Ms McLaughlin’s
symptoms began when she was just 13 years old but she was not diagnosed with
PGAD until six years later.
Her mother,
Victoria, admitted that she and her family did not understand her daughter’s
condition at first.
“When she
first became sexually active, she was having sex a lot,” she said. “My whole
family just thought she was a wh**e.
“I doubted
her completely — I still feel guilty.” Victoria is now very supportive of her
daughter, as is JoJo.
Amanda said:
“Relationships are really hard to keep with this problem. But he never
once has judged me, he never made me feel bad about working. It was love at
first sight.”
She added that her
condition affects the couple’s sex life ‘tremendously’.
“You’d
think that you could have sex and it would just go away, but it doesn’t,” she
said.
“Sometimes
I will be crying and begging him to have sex with me just to relieve some of
the pressure that I have down there.”
JoJo said:
“When she first told me, I didn’t know how to feel about it; but I liked her,
so I was prepared to jump in.
“The more
I can learn, the more I can help her. I’ll help her so she can get anything she
needs.”
Amanda currently takes 30
different types of medications to ease the pain caused by her condition. She
also uses ice ‘inserts’ to ease her pelvic swelling.
Assistant
professor of neurology at Michigan University, Dr. Priyanka Gunta, who is
currently treating Amanda, said: “Because it’s such a rare diagnosis and
there’s been such little research, we don’t know exactly what causes it. We
suspect it’s multifactorial.
“I don’t
have a quick cure for this, but we’re going to be trying a few different
therapies.
“I’m very
hopeful that we can get her functioning better.”


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