This is an embarrassing one so im afraid Ive namechanged........

[AllergicNEmbarrassed]

for obvious reasons.

I appear to have developed an allergy to condoms or the lubricant on them since I gave birth last year.

KY doesnt help - the instant it touches "down there" everything seems to dry out, no matter how, er, moist I was to start with (sorry if tmi ). Its a bit itchy afterwards too.

I dont really know what to do. I dont get on very well with the pill. I have tried many different ones in the past and either it totally disrupted my periods (which ended up with me getting pg when I was in my teens and not knowing for 2 months), or I suffered the most horrendous migraines.

I dont want DH to have a vasectomy - nor do I want to be sterilised. Whilst we do not want another child at the moment, we know we will do in a few years.

The last resort is the coil - again something that my GP suggested was probably not for me due to other problems (many years ago....)

We dont have many options, and I'm not about to spend a fortune experimenting on different brands of condoms - they are very expensive!

Any advice would be most welcome.....

omg I have exactly the same thing. condoms, lube, tampons they all.irritate me.

I found a lube that doesn't irritate me it's water based. It's in the YES range on mypure.com which sells vegan cosmetics/shampoos etc.

but the condoms even latex free are painful to use.

I second the vegan condoms I. might order some myself.

I wonder why it is its only been since having lids too.