About this episode

Mathilde Olstad shares her journey of experiencing vulvovaginal pain and the challenges she faced in accessing proper care.

At 25, Mathilde Olstad's life was on track: a new relationship, a finance degree nearly finished, a career about to launch. Then pain during sex appeared out of nowhere, Then pain during sex appeared out of nowhere, and it didn't go away. What followed was years of dismissal, dead ends, expensive alternative treatments, and being refused by seven gynecologists before she could access specialized care. Instead of staying silent, she turned her experience into The World's Tightest Community, a podcast reaching thousands of women living with vulvovaginal pain. In this episode, Dr. Sameena Rahman sits down with Mathilde Olstad, creator and host of The World's Tightest Community, a podcast dedicated to vulvovaginal health, chronic pelvic pain, and breaking the silence around conditions like vulvodynia, vestibulodynia, and vaginismus. Mathilde shares her story from the beginning: the sudden onset of burning vestibular pain at 25, a GP who told her everything looked fine, a year and a half of waiting, and the excruciating speculum exam where the shock on her providers' faces told her everything about how unprepared the system was for patients like her. She describes the desperate search…

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