She has given me antibiotics. These glands play an important role during sex because during sexual arousal they secrete a fluid which acts as a lubricant in the area. Inflammation of the glands is very painful Infection of the Bartholin's glands is known as bartholinitis and is intensely painful because this area of the body has many finely tuned nerve endings. The infection causes the glands to swell.
Treatment consists of antibiotics, painkillers and warm baths.
Infection can be sexually transmitted Bartholinitis may be caused by a variety of bacteria. Usually the bacteria are the type commonly found on the skin or in the gut and which cause abscesses and infections elsewhere in the body. These are known as staphylococci, streptococci, or coliforms. In this case you may simply have picked up the bacteria from your own skin surface and for some reason, perhaps some sort of brief and temporary breakdown in your immunity, an infection forms. But another important cause of bartholinitis is gonorrhoea, which is a sexually transmitted infection.