Difficult or painful penetration or intercourse often leaves emotional trauma that can damage relationships and lives.
Scar tissue is inevitable whenever there is damage to the normally elastic vagina.
Such damage can result from surgery, difficult childbirth, or radiation therapy to the vagina, cervix, or pelvic region . As the scar tissue forms, it contracts and becomes less flexible causing constrictions that make penetration difficult or impossible. Surgical reconstruction of the vagina involves using skin from another part of the body, typically the lower abdomen or inner thigh, to create a new vagina. During this process the surgeon has to use sutures to form the new lining to its proper shape. Wherever there are suture lines you will have scar tissue forming.