I just want to check with you all - possible latex allergy?

[rikkitsune.livejournal.com]

Hi everybody,
I had a bit of a mishap involving latex gloves during sex with my partner on the weekend, and I wanted to run it past you and hear your thoughts on whether I might have a latex allergy.


My partner used to chew his nails right down to the quick, so his fingers were always smooth. He used to fist me, which I loved and I would have massive, intense orgasms.

He has grown his fingernails back in the past couple of months and now trims them with a nail clipper. We've noticed that fingering is now painful for me and can't even get remotely close to fisting. I've tried filing and buffing the edges off his nails, but it doesn't help.

On Saturday night, we decided to try again, but he would wear latex gloves. It had been almost 3 weeks since we'd had sex of any description, and sometimes my vagina gets a bit "out of practice."

The gloves were a bit grippy at first, but we added more lube and then it was fine. We paused after my first orgasm and I noticed a burning, stinging sensation all over my outer labia. I thought I was just a bit out of shape (so to speak), so I went to the bathroom, gave myself a wipe with a cold flannel and rubbed some coconut oil on my vulva, which stopped the stinging almost straight away.

So we started "round two", but within a minute I asked my partner to stop, because the burning was back, twice as bad. He had a look down there for me and couldn't see any redness, but I had a bit of a feel and my labia were swollen - not in the good arousal way, but the tight, puffy uneven way of an allergic reaction. So I went again with the cold flannel, some ice and then some sorbolene cream, which helped a lot. I also took an antihistamine and some painkillers.

The next morning, everything seemed to be all right again, just a slight bit of residual soreness. We were in agreement that it seemed to be a latex allergy, but I thought it was a bit strange, because I'd never had trouble with condoms. Although, we haven't used condoms for 4 years.


What does everyone think? Latex allergy? Not enough lube? I'm thinking of trying vinyl gloves next time to see what happens.

Comments

[eli-artemisia.livejournal.com]

Is there reliable research available supporting the idea that saliva causes yeast infections? I've gone my whole life without them and all of a sudden I'm getting one every few weeks. I'm trying to pinpoint what it is that I'm doing differently that could be causing it, and one thing I can say is that my current partner is much more generous when it comes to oral sex. I really hope that is NOT the source of my suffering

[knittinggoddess.livejournal.com]

The nurse told me that the only peer-reviewed study to find a connection between anything and YIs showed a connection to saliva...but I haven't followed up on it. There might be something on PubMed, though. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=saliva%20vaginal%20yeast%20infection)